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
I can’t post my thoughts!!!!!
Does he have any hogs that he can be fed to?
I hope he gets his head split open in jail.
Poor horse. All they ever want to do is ‘join up’.
Let the punishment fit the crime.
Here in Texas, we say, “Get a rope!”
There are some seriously F’ed up people in this world.
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.
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!
Was it his horse?
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.
Amen!
And I’m not even a horse person. I’m pretty scared of them unless I’m throwing treats from a distance.
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.
According to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department, the horse’s owner, Jack Ziniuk,
They’d better keep an eye on this creep: this kind of gross, unconscionable animal abuse can be the last step before serial homicide.
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.
Yep.
Maybe the dogs severely injured the horse and he had to put it down.
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.
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