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Deputies: Horse Beaten with Sledgehammer, Remains Fed to Dogs
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Posted on 04/20/2009 11:55:12 AM PDT by Chet 99

By Matt Guillermo, KESQ.com Digital Content Director mguillermo@kesq.com

ANZA - A man who told authorities his horse was attacked by dogs was arrested after deputies found that the horse, instead, was beaten with a sledgehammer.

According to the Riverside County Sheriff's Department, the horse's owner, Jack Ziniuk, called deputies Sunday afternoon to "put down" his horse, saying that it had been badly injured by attacking dogs and that it was suffering from seizures.

Deputies and, later, Animal Control officers investigating the horse found that it had been struck several times in the head with a sledgehammer and, then, decapitated with a chainsaw.

Deputies later located the chainsaw and sledgehammer allegedly used. Investigators also found the horse's head which had been used to feed the man's dogs.

Ziniuk, 64, was arrested for animal cruelty and booked into the Robert Presley Detention Center in Riverside. AddThis Social Bookmark Button


TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: animalsarepeopletoo; dogs; horse
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1 posted on 04/20/2009 11:55:12 AM PDT by Chet 99
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To: Chet 99

I can’t post my thoughts!!!!!


2 posted on 04/20/2009 11:57:14 AM PDT by briarbey b (There is nothing new under the sun.)
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To: Chet 99

Does he have any hogs that he can be fed to?


3 posted on 04/20/2009 11:57:21 AM PDT by AirForceMom (Locked and loaded, and sharpening wooden stakes.)
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To: Chet 99

I hope he gets his head split open in jail.


4 posted on 04/20/2009 11:58:08 AM PDT by Islaminaction
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To: Chet 99

Poor horse. All they ever want to do is ‘join up’.

Let the punishment fit the crime.


5 posted on 04/20/2009 11:58:33 AM PDT by Noumenon (Time for Atlas to shrug - and to pick up a gun)
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To: Chet 99

Here in Texas, we say, “Get a rope!”


6 posted on 04/20/2009 11:58:38 AM PDT by BuckeyeTexan
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To: Chet 99

There are some seriously F’ed up people in this world.


7 posted on 04/20/2009 12:00:06 PM PDT by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
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To: Chet 99

There was never a horse born who wasn’t more intelligent and more valuable to God and man than this horrible evil ugly monster. Life without parole please.


8 posted on 04/20/2009 12:00:19 PM PDT by Veto! (Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
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To: Chet 99

I am so angry I could spit.

What the hell is wrong with people these days. People killing the unborn, killing helpless animals, it just makes me outraged!


9 posted on 04/20/2009 12:02:00 PM PDT by diamond6 (Is SIDS preventable? www.Stopsidsnow.com)
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To: Chet 99

Was it his horse?


10 posted on 04/20/2009 12:02:20 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (When you're RuPaul posing as the wife of the president, you need all the make-up help you can get.)
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To: diamond6

You cannot make equivalent the death of a human versus the death of a “helpless animal”.

I would bet you have no problems killing mice, rats, and other mammals, especially for your benefit as meat you cook.


11 posted on 04/20/2009 12:03:43 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (When you're RuPaul posing as the wife of the president, you need all the make-up help you can get.)
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To: Veto!

Amen!
And I’m not even a horse person. I’m pretty scared of them unless I’m throwing treats from a distance.


12 posted on 04/20/2009 12:03:44 PM PDT by netmilsmom (Psalm 109:8 - Let his days be few; and let another take his office)
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To: Chet 99

The Law of Unintended Consequences is a bitch.

Now that horses can no longer be legally slaughtered, this sort of thing is becoming much more common.


13 posted on 04/20/2009 12:04:15 PM PDT by gridlock (Build a man a fire, he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, he'll be warm the rest of his life.)
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To: ConservativeMind

According to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department, the horse’s owner, Jack Ziniuk,


14 posted on 04/20/2009 12:04:43 PM PDT by b4its2late (Ignorance allows liberalism to prosper.)
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To: Chet 99

They’d better keep an eye on this creep: this kind of gross, unconscionable animal abuse can be the last step before serial homicide.


15 posted on 04/20/2009 12:05:28 PM PDT by Petronski (For the next few years, Gethsemane will not be marginal. We will know that garden. -- Cdl. Stafford)
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To: Chet 99
Desperate times mean abandoned horses

Surge in Abandoned Horses Renews Debate Over Slaughterhouses

Horses are livestock, and the economy has caused many people to be unable to continue to care for their horses. Better to be turned into food than abandoned and left to starve.

17 posted on 04/20/2009 12:06:38 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Only after disaster can we be resurrected." -- Tyler Durden)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Yep.


18 posted on 04/20/2009 12:07:34 PM PDT by gridlock (Build a man a fire, he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, he'll be warm the rest of his life.)
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To: Chet 99

Maybe the dogs severely injured the horse and he had to put it down.


19 posted on 04/20/2009 12:07:37 PM PDT by EternalVigilance ("Our flag still waves! And we shall NEVER let them tear it down!" - Alan Keyes, 4-15-09)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

If I had to kill a horse, I think I’d be using a rifle/shotgun, not a freepin sledgehammer. But that’s just me.


20 posted on 04/20/2009 12:09:11 PM PDT by Chet 99
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