Problem solved.
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
“They’d better keep an eye on this creep: this kind of gross, unconscionable animal abuse can be the last step before serial homicide.”
Now that there are no slaughter house operations that are allowed to process unwanted horses, back yard solutions WILL be found.
Perhaps this would be more accurate:
They’d better keep an eye on this creep: this kind of gross, unconscionable animal abuse can be the last step before serial horse-cide.
Nice try, but no. It’s hard to pass cruelty off as anything but what it is.
“...he could have done it in a way that didn’t bring such suffering to the poor animal. He beat his horse with a sledge hammer...”
That’s also where I have a problem. It’s easy to be more emotional about this because the horse is a much-loved animal. Since I eat meat, it’s probably hypocritical for me to be outraged that he killed his horse, but it’s not hypocritical to be outraged about the way in which he did it.
If the animal is standing, you're taking a chance with a glancing blow to the head. The safest humane method other than captive bolt is euthanasia via IV. Hit the jugular and use sodium pentobarbitol IV and the animal will go down. Yes, it's a controlled substance, so there is a cost for a DVM to come out.
Really? But we don’t live in the days before the invention of the captive bolt gun (I guess - don’t know what that is). We certainly don’t have large numbers of people beating their animals to death in this way today.
If the animal was sick, the guy could have called a vet. Good grief - we don’t live in the stone age!
;-)
The phrase “beaten with a sledge hammer” hardly describes “horse slaughter.”
Exactly! I’m very disturbed about the support here for animal abuse.
It was his property and he decided to feed an apparently injured animal to the dogs which apparently hurt it to start. Even if they didn't hurt the horse, it was his to slaughter.
Animals cannot have “rights” nor can the respect ours. You will note how many pit bull stories Chet 99 posts that show that animals have no ability to respect our rights.
I am not “for” senseless hurting of animals, nor do I slaughter them. However, I love eating meat and I heartily encourage killing animals for my benefit and I don't think that should be claimed to be “cruelty” simply because someone might think a cow was once a pet, so that means it can't be slaughtered.
I have killed squirrels, mice, rats, and other animals and had “fun” doing so. I've shot pellet guns at crows through the summers on my farm growing up and I'm glad for having done so. All of these are “God's Animals,” so are you saying you will lament what I've done, too?
Also, are you going to grieve the loss of animals you personally paid to have killed simply so you could eat or, worse, if you didn't finish all of it, to simply “throw away in your own trash can”?
Your arguments are emotional and not rational. You don't even see how you've helped kill “kind animals of God” over your own life.
Enjoy your vaccines. They were tested on animals prior to being used on you.
Go protest with PETA.
As far as I can find, there is no proof that the horse was beaten with a sledge hammer. Killed, yes.
Please be advised that for many generations, cattle and horses were killed by blindfolding and then applying a hammer or axe to the skull.
Thanks to the political alliance between commies, enviro-whacko’s and animal rights freaks such as PETA, and gun grabbers, it is not illegal to shoot an injured or unwanted horse or other animal in many places.
Why, one asks, did the Vet Associations go along with these laws? Think money. Mr. Vet makes nothing if a hammer blow or a .22 between the eyes kills an animal.
So, what can be done? No chance of a horse slaughter house coming by to get the horse, Mr. Vet is too expensive AND doesn't remove the dead horse, anyway.
Ask yourself how you, and I do mean you, would cope with half a ton or more of dead horse.
Got Bulldozer? Got Backhoe?
I thought not. Now you know why my mother taught me it was easier to criticize than to be correct.
Pick up a copy of John Steinbeck's In Dubious Battle and read Chapter 13 for a good description of the process. (Ignore the rest of the Commie claptrap, of course..)
***** “Your arguments are emotional and not rational. You don’t even see how you’ve helped kill “kind animals of God” over your own life” *****
People that only eat “Square Fish” and “Chicken Nuggets” cannot be held responsible for their emotional responses.
As a whole Man has been and continues to be the most “Humane” animal on the Planet (I think that’s why it’s called “Humane”), there are folks that are not, the Jury is still out on this guy.
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I thought not. Now you know why my mother taught me it was easier to criticize than to be correct.
Well, first of all, in answer to your question: “Ask yourself how you, and I do mean you, would cope with half a ton or more of dead horse.”
I wouldn’t own a horse if I didn’t have the means to care for it. That, after all, would be irresponsible.
“Please be advised that for many generations, cattle and horses were killed by blindfolding and then applying a hammer or axe to the skull.”
OK - and in the past, women were strapped to the plow in place of the horse. I, for one, think that’s an idea whose time has come and gone. Just like the idea of killing the horse in the way you describe. Some practices of the past need to be left there.
As to the cost of vet care - That’s beside the point. I don’t care what the motivation is,as long as the outcome is a good one.
I support humane treatment of animals. I didn’t realize this was a controversial point of view. But is seems to be.
Problem solved.
Stunning an animal with a blow to the head prior to slaughtering is, generally speaking, considered to be humane. It is the way your Big Mac met it's end.
Nowadays it is done with a captive bolt gun, which is a pneumatic piston that is driven by compressed air into the skull of the animal. The piston is retained in the gun, which is why it is called a "captive bolt". This requires less skill and strength than a sledgehammer, which is why slaughterhouses use them.
Nice Brittish-style machine.
I have had the unpleasant task of burying several horses for people when i used to run a backhoe.
Reminds me of an old, unreliable Massey Ferguson machine I used at work a while back. The mechanics who had to maintain the beast shortened the name, of course...
Anybody who has seen “No Country for Old Men” will have seen a captive bolt gun. It’s what the psycho killer guy used on a bunch of people to kill them.
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