Posted on 04/21/2025 2:31:11 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Officials identified a body found in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area over the weekend as Dr. Shawn Frehner, a high-profile veterinarian who has been missing since April 6.
The National Park Service began a search at Lake Mead after Frehner’s keys, wallet, and cellphone were found in his truck parked at Hemmenway Harbor on April 7. According to NPS, his body was found near the Boulder Islands within the Lake Mead National Recreation Area on April 18.
On April 19, the Clark County coroner’s office confirmed Frehner’s identity through dental records. His cause and manner of death were not released, and additional details were not immediately available.
Earlier this month, Frehner apologized and admitted to kicking a horse he had been paid to administer anesthetic shots to at a Nevada property. Frehner issued an apology after video of the incident went viral.
“I did not blatantly haul off and kick this horse as it appears in the video. That was not my intention at all,” Frehner wrote. “It was done simply to get the horse in a better position so that he could breathe and get up and move so I could again try to anesthetize.”
“But yes, I did kick him right in the chin, and I very much do apologize and wish this never happened,”
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I’ve lost several friends who were kicked by horses. They were big work horses and each time the guy was kicked in the chest. All Amish.
It is beautiful to see teams of big work horses, six to a team, pulling farm equipment in the fields.
No, but I always think of him when I see that scene. Actually, the story I heard from my mom was that he hit the horse between the eyes hard enough to stun it.
‘A veterinian in our town was kicked in the head and killed a few years ago.”
Our daughter was a veterinary technician for a decade and worked with a lot of horses. She worked with a lot of vets and heard enough stories of vets getting kicked, feet stepped on, losing eyes, losing hearing, serious concussions and deaths that she switched to dogs and cats. Then she switched to pet insurance after that which has even fewer risks!
Mr. Bean and his trusty Robin Reliant.
A friend of mine (now deceased) was kicked square in the forehead by a draft horse when he was 6. It was touch and go for a while but he survived. He was always a little bit off after that but a genuine good person.
Mongo just pawn in game of life.
OK, you win the thread.
Good. He won’t be kicking horses anymore.
And goats. I remember the time I went down to the barn on a Saturday morning to collect eggs in my pajamas. While bent over a curious billy goat came up behind me, stuck his horned head between my legs, which startled me, which startled him so that he lifted his head with a jerk. Next thing I know I'm riding a stupid unhappy goat, which quickly resulted in the both of us toppling over sideways into some mud.
When I got back to the house I was like, "Don't ask. Don't even ask."
Nothing more ignorant than an idiot commenting on a video they admit they never watched.......Sheesh!
GMTA
I habe lost absolutely all faith in veterinarians.
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LOL...
I had a big Nubian dairy Goat that I never dehorned.
She would hit you from behind and sent you flying.
When she ate all my blueberry bushes and then danced on my car, she was GONE.
Best laugh I’ve had all day, lol…
FOR THOSE WHO EVER GET THE CHANCE:
THE DRAFT HORSE CLASSIC IN GRASS VALLEY, CALIF, is the largest DRAFT HORSE SHOW IN THE USA.
4-UP hitches are good-—6-up are better-—
BUT NOTHING AT ALL CAN BEAT A 8-UP HITCH LIKE BUDWEISER TEAM.
Watched them roll into arena at Grass Valley to the ROAR of the crowd-—Brushed & polished to a shine, and every piece of harness spotless & harnesses jingling —at a SPANKING TROT.
IF THAT DOESN’T PUT GOOSEBUMPS ON YOU-—TURN YOURSELF OVER TO THE UNDERTAKER.....YOU ARE GONE :)
Dad hated that horse, and she hated him back. Once, after a ride, Dad had his saddle hanging from a rope by the saddle horn. She backed up against it and just unloaded the biggest mess of horse crap I ever saw all over it.
He was cussing up a blue streak, calling her everything he could think of, and we were laughing so hard we couldn’t stand up.
Tough guy behind the keyboard aren’t you?
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