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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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To: Veto!
Life without parole please.

For slaughtering his own animal? It may not have been the way you'd have killed your own animal, but it was his animal.

Have you ever willingly killed a rat or mouse? Do you eat meat that others slaughter, animals that they own which they slice the head right off and carve off chunks of meat for you to buy in the store?

Get real. God cares much more about humans because only humans have souls. Worry about aborted babies, instead.

21 posted on 04/20/2009 12:09:14 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: sarah4life

you didn’t have to count very long.


22 posted on 04/20/2009 12:10:12 PM PDT by Chet 99
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To: Chet 99

When he gets sent to jail, make sure the other inmates know what he did. They will take care of him. That stuff does not go unpunished on the inside.


23 posted on 04/20/2009 12:10:29 PM PDT by Concho (01-20-2009--The beginning of an ERROR)
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To: netmilsmom

A good friend has some and they are like huge dogs.
They want to be petted and given a carrot.
They are usually very sweet.
I keep a fence between them and myself though.


24 posted on 04/20/2009 12:10:33 PM PDT by a real Sheila (God bless us everyone.)
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To: Chet 99

I can’t read the posting - just had to express my revulsion and disgust. Anything that gets done to him is OK with me.


25 posted on 04/20/2009 12:10:45 PM PDT by ElayneJ
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To: Chet 99
That is your choice, and frankly, I'd pick a gun, too.

But that wasn't my animal with which to have my way.

26 posted on 04/20/2009 12:10:56 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: Chet 99
If do-gooders hadn't shut down all the horse slaughterhouses, this wouldn't be happening.
27 posted on 04/20/2009 12:11:41 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Only after disaster can we be resurrected." -- Tyler Durden)
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To: ElayneJ
It was his animal.

Have you ever killed a rat or eaten meat that was slaughtered?

28 posted on 04/20/2009 12:12:01 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: AirForceMom

Do you or your kids eat meat of any sort? Ever wonder how animal flesh winds up on your plate? It’s an animal owned by someone who then slaughters it. You encourage this inhumane practice by buying meat and worse, eating it.

I wouldn’t have killed my horse that way, but with a gun, as Chet said in a post, but it wasn’t my horse.


29 posted on 04/20/2009 12:13:52 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: E. Pluribus Unum
Horses are livestock,

C'mon, don't inject fact on such an emotionally charged issue.

I miss good horse steaks and burger meat.

30 posted on 04/20/2009 12:14:35 PM PDT by Travis T. OJustice (I can spell just fine, thanks, it's my typing that sucks.)
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To: Concho

I’ll bet you are a meat eater and don’t mind eating many different animals that had to be slaughtered for your stomach.

You have undoubtedly killed mice or rats in your life. These are fellow mammals. Who made you God such that only your hand in killings was deemed “acceptable?”


31 posted on 04/20/2009 12:16:03 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: gridlock
Fact of life some people can't afford to hire a vet to cure an animal let alone to pay to have one put down. While I would have preferred that he used a gun he might not have had one. I don't know if the ASPCA would have taken the horse or not. While it is against the law to sell horse meat I don't think it is against the law to have one slaughtered for your own use.
32 posted on 04/20/2009 12:16:26 PM PDT by ontap (Just another backstabbing conservative)
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To: Chet 99
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.

Folks seem to be overlooking this important fact in favor of feeling righteous indignation. If the deputy didn't show up until much later and the guy didn't own a gun, what was he suppose to do? Let the horse suffer? One good whack to the head and the suffering stops.

33 posted on 04/20/2009 12:18:35 PM PDT by OB1kNOb (Bitter FReeping, gun toting, bible clinging, family loving, Obama despising, Right Wing Extremist.)
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To: Islaminaction

Spoken like someone who has never encouraged the killing of animals for food or killed animals pests of any sort.


34 posted on 04/20/2009 12:19:36 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: OB1kNOb

Excellent point!!!


35 posted on 04/20/2009 12:19:43 PM PDT by ontap (Just another backstabbing conservative)
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To: ConservativeMind

There, there. You worry about what worries you. I don’t care what that might be — it’s your business. No point wasting your valuable time worrying about whatever it is that worries me.


37 posted on 04/20/2009 12:21:46 PM PDT by Veto! (Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
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To: OB1kNOb

These are the same people who think that having the “Humane Society” killing countless animals is perfectly fine, along with killing for food or killing of pests.

Totally inconsistent logic, but it suits their selfishness and emotional maturity levels.


38 posted on 04/20/2009 12:22:00 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: sarah4life

and our society would be even worse off than it already is if everyone took the position that we’re not going to care about Evil B because Evil A is allowed to go on.


39 posted on 04/20/2009 12:22:00 PM PDT by Chet 99
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To: a real Sheila

Me too!

They are pretty and when we stop at a local stable, they love the apples we bring, but my girls are braver than I am. They feed them and pet them on the nose. I smile and stand back.


40 posted on 04/20/2009 12:22:25 PM PDT by netmilsmom (Psalm 109:8 - Let his days be few; and let another take his office)
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