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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: ontap

IIRC, all horse slaughterhouses in the US have been outlawed.


41 posted on 04/20/2009 12:22:51 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: Veto!

And there is no point in your worrying about what worries me about your worrying.


42 posted on 04/20/2009 12:23:08 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: ConservativeMind

Spoken like someone who cannot even tell the difference between eating for survival and beating a horse to death for no reason. Sickening.


43 posted on 04/20/2009 12:25:48 PM PDT by Islaminaction
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To: gridlock
I know but slaughter houses aren't where most individuals get this sort of thing done. Usually they find an individual butcher or a guy that processes deer to take care of it for them.
44 posted on 04/20/2009 12:26:32 PM PDT by ontap (Just another backstabbing conservative)
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To: Chet 99

I had a Cow that I had tied to a fence while I went to get the Trailer to move her, that decided to break her own neck, I did not have a rifle or pistol with me so I dispatched her with my pocket knife (slit her throat), she was a pet, her name was Elfidelda, and I could not let her suffer anymore. As a Farmer I would not let an animal go to waste, I butchered her, since she was a family pet I traded her hanging carcass for a hanging carcass of like size and weight at the butcher shop. I had her hide tanned and it became a rug in my bedroom. Do you think “I am a Monster?”
TT


45 posted on 04/20/2009 12:26:44 PM PDT by TexasTransplant (NEMO ME IMPUNE LACESSET)
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To: ConservativeMind

LOL.


46 posted on 04/20/2009 12:27:13 PM PDT by Veto! (Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
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To: ConservativeMind

It was his animal.
Have you ever killed a rat or eaten meat that was slaughtered?


Are you really saying that because the horse was his it was OK for him to beat it with a slege hammer?

And no, I’ve never killed a rat. But a rat and a horse are really not the same, are they? I don’t eat much meat either...but I’m not seeing your point. Do you think this guy was killing his horse so he could consume it?


47 posted on 04/20/2009 12:28:00 PM PDT by ElayneJ
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To: Chet 99

Tenderizing...you’re doing it wrong.


48 posted on 04/20/2009 12:28:19 PM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: ConservativeMind

Your view point here is as disgusting as the man who did this.


49 posted on 04/20/2009 12:28:26 PM PDT by Islaminaction
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To: ElayneJ

Look at all his posts in this thread. He has no problem with the horse being beaten to death.


50 posted on 04/20/2009 12:29:16 PM PDT by Islaminaction
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To: gridlock

Yes, a little known campaign was successfully initiated by Hollywood types to stop the slaughter and/or export of horses to places like Belgium, where people do have a taste for it, along with mayo on fries....

The ban has decimated the industry, simulataneously increasing US wild horse populations to an overpopulated condition causing environmental strain, while countries like Argentina have taken up the slack in exports to Europe.

Happened fairly recently, after 06, IIRC.

All in all, a lose/lose situation for the US, thanks to Hollywood supported Dems.


51 posted on 04/20/2009 12:29:46 PM PDT by swarthyguy ("We may be crazy in Pakistan, but not completely out of our minds," ISI Gen. Ahmed Shujaa Pasha)
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To: ontap

When I drop off a deer for butchering, I usually make sure it is dead first.

Can your friendly nieghborhood butcher kill the horse?


52 posted on 04/20/2009 12:29:59 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

Eye for an eye comes to mind.


53 posted on 04/20/2009 12:30:07 PM PDT by Danae (Amerikan Unity My Ass)
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To: Islaminaction

I’ve read this story several times and I don’t see how you could know which is the true motive for this guys actions. Post #33 makes a valid point!


54 posted on 04/20/2009 12:30:21 PM PDT by ontap (Just another backstabbing conservative)
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To: ConservativeMind

It’s sad how many on this thread have missed the delightful irony in your simple query.

Instead, posters want the horse’s owner punished on the basis that they don’t LIKE what he did.

Sound downright obamian, doesn’t it?


55 posted on 04/20/2009 12:30:29 PM PDT by MortMan (Power without responsibility-the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages. - Rudyard Kipling)
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To: Islaminaction

It is an animal that was owned by someone.

It should be their decision, They had raised it and in the end, he let it be meat for his dogs (probably the same one that initially hurt it for which he contacted the police to have them kill, but it took them many hours to respond to such an unimportant request).

Get real. If you’ve ever not eaten all of the meat you had on your plate, you’ve contributed to the death of an animal for no reason other than to become trash you choose to throw away.


56 posted on 04/20/2009 12:30:38 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

Some will others won’t. I would imagine it would depend on how much you paid him.


57 posted on 04/20/2009 12:32:46 PM PDT by ontap (Just another backstabbing conservative)
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To: ConservativeMind

I can’t post here what I think of you. Thankfully others thing the same.

Converstion over.


58 posted on 04/20/2009 12:33:09 PM PDT by Islaminaction
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To: Islaminaction

I can’t tell if he’s serious or just trying to be outrageous.


59 posted on 04/20/2009 12:33:20 PM PDT by ElayneJ
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To: ElayneJ

He is serious, he just posted some more of the same to me.

Bascially if you own an animal you can do what ever you want to it.


60 posted on 04/20/2009 12:34:42 PM PDT by Islaminaction
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