Body found dumped on side of the road near Blue Barn,Ashford!!!

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Afriend on her normal routine visit to her her horses,was driveing a long minding her business and came across a lifeless body next to the side of the road on Goldwell Lane near Blue Barn,ashford.Sickens me and is disgusting and vile behaviour and the [content removed] deserve to be named and shamed!!I would post images,but not sure if i am allowed????Might help in finding the owner if anyone recognises the body.Appears to be a colt,soooo sad and i know things like this happen but i would never in amillion years expect to see this on the way to my horses or any of my friends.The owner needs to be strung up and hanged.
 
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Oh my god that poor thing :eek: I guess for your own security it'd be best not to post pictures, but I hope whoever is responsible is caught. Dreadful :(
 
Size wise will have to find out from friend,Its a lil cremello and doesnt even look a year old.Its very sad i dont mind pm images but wont put them up on here,in the hope someone recognises the poor lil mite in hope of the owners being found.
 
There was a cremello foal out by Asda in the spring. They seem to be flygrazing on all the rubbish land round the area and more always appear around the time of the market.
 
For a minute I thought you meant - human!

Back in the early eighties, a friend livery and I both found one dumped at the side of the lane on our way to the yard - you can imagine the fuss - turned out to be the end of an underworld dispute.

Then later, out riding I found two suicides still in their cars - lovely spot too - I stopped going that way!
 
1stclassalan thats awful!!!I have seen a horse die in front of my face and no one help or put it out of its misery,me and a friend tried to hold on to him and support him best as possible whilst people on the yard watched him smash his face off the concrete floor as he was haveing a heart attack,My friend was going ape telling them to shoot him as we knew he was dieing,it was horrendus and i would never want to see that again.It sickens me and i would love to see it stopped as many others would.
Ladyinred thats very interesting it looks quite fine built from what i see on the picture??Was it a foal back then??I would say it looks no older than a year or very close to it.
 
blacksabbeth said:
1stclassalan thats awful!!!I have seen a horse die in front of my face and no one help
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Yes, not very nice is it? My lovely girl went the same way, twenty years ago yesterday and it still a BIG thing in my life even being a fairly big old bloke!

........or put it out of its misery,me and a friend tried to hold on to him and support him best as possible whilst people on the yard watched him smash his face off the concrete floor as he was haveing a heart attack,
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If you're unfortunate enough to witness it again - or even a survivable event with the horse down - sit on its head! Horses are so powerful no one can control one thrashing about so this is the only way you're going to stop one doing more damage to itself or you. Put a rug under it as quick as can then lay over the neck and try to comfort him/her - these days, you'll at least have a phone handy. I've done this for a gypsy cob years ago - quieten it and then untangled his foot from a chain - the cause of distress - I later had a chat about proper horse management with the owner - while swinging part of the chain.

My friend was going ape telling them to shoot him as we knew he was dieing,
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Ah, so there were other folks about then? Not that practical to shoot a thrashing horse - it ain't the wild west! A clean kill needs a quiet animal - good or bad. Saying that, I witnessed and sorted out my loaner's second pony who was being difficult to load - everybody in the yard ( you know the "helpful sort who know everything") had a go at getting him a trailer which they had very badly parked - the poor pony ended up on the floor down between the trailer and a wall smashing itself senseless as you say - however; within 15 mins of me getting it out and up - you wouldn't have known it had happened so there's some good news!

it was horrendus and i would never want to see that again.It sickens me and i would love to see it stopped .
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Well you might think me strange but for my old girl it was a lovely quick way to go - we've all got to go sometime! I think it was relatively painless as she was out of it very quickly and I was able to be very close to her ( though most folk thought I was mad and probably was ) calm her until the light in her eye switched off. Thirty three ain't a bad age for a horse after all.
 
This seems to happen a fair bit, about 8 miles off j8 off a little village there are woods in one year 2 ponies were found in woods an another in a field behind a hedge right on the route of the toll ride. I guess this is half way ish between maidstone and ashford.
 
1stclassalan,we did our best to comfort him and put as many rugs as possible underneath him to try and comfort the blows,we had cross tied him with us holding on either side as he was dragged in to a barn by his owner at the time,which ideally was not suitable due to the set up and he could have seriously caused an injury to someone,it was so sad bless him he kept putting his nose in to our hands and then sat down as gracefully as he could whilst we supported him as best as possible at that point my friend shouted for them to shoot him as he went down and layed there after 10 minutes thats when all the thrashing started and he was attempting to get up so i held his head best i could as my friend put the rugs under to soften the blows for him.I know one day i will have to face it with both my horses,which are my horses of a lifetime and i will do my best by them,but by no means would i ever do what what this cruel individual has done and dump the body by the road.But all advice much appreciated and a big thank you and very sorry for the lose of your girl,and i have always believed it takes a true man to show his emotions.x
 
A few years ago there was one in a river and it was weeks before it was moved as no one could agree who responsibility it was. I would ring the local highways dept or enviromental health.
This is going to happen more often as it costs £200 plus to dispose of a body. A few years ago when cars were worth nothing for scrap there was a big problem with them being set a light and dumped, our local council subsidised the scrap yards perhaps they need to do the same for fallen stock men.
 
Yes the photo is on facebook and is very distressing,but hopefully someone recognises his little body.Turns out he was more 2/3 years old and was an arab type,but no leads yet.Hopefully the more people see it the closer it will get to finding the owner. :(
 
Oh lord, I just came back to say no, the one OH photographed would have been 2/3 years old. Dreading him coming home now, he will be very upset if it is.
 
Isn't this an awful lot of fuss about a dead horse which is in no pain?

Nobody knows how he died. If he was found dead in the field by his owner then it would have cost him around £200 to have the body removed. All he has done is fly tipped a body. The colt may even have escaped and be a road accident victim.

Unless it is skeletal or has obviously been badly treated some other way, shall we just hang fire over the cruelty accusations?

I hardly it that calls for a public hanging, as one person has requested.
 
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Can't quote as posting from phone, but I agree with cptrayes (saved me a lot of fiddley typing so thanks!)
If the remains show signs of ill treatment / neglect then of course the person/s responsible should be brought to book, but dumping the remains to avoid disposal costs comes under fly tipping as opposed to cruelty.
 
Zebedee said:
Can't quote as posting from phone, but I agree with cptrayes (saved me a lot of fiddley typing so thanks!)
If the remains show signs of ill treatment / neglect then of course the person/s responsible should be brought to book, but dumping the remains to avoid disposal costs comes under fly tipping as opposed to cruelty.
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I have "think" missing from my last sentence, sorry :D
 
Apart from cause of death the main issue here is the dumping of the body by someone obviously not wanting or in a position to get the body disposed of properly! Someone else's problem at the side of the road. :rolleyes: Very irresponsible.

ps. Can bodies be left for collection by the road?
 
Can't quote as posting from phone, but I agree with cptrayes (saved me a lot of fiddley typing so thanks!)
If the remains show signs of ill treatment / neglect then of course the person/s responsible should be brought to book, but dumping the remains to avoid disposal costs comes under fly tipping as opposed to cruelty.
 
I think this is a lot of fuss and should be a lot of fuss. I am disgusted that even if it died naturally that it has been dumped. If everyone just dumped animals then the cost to clear it all up is left to someone else plus the flies etc and risk spread of disease(I meant what if it died of something contagious)?

If people cant afford them dont have them. It is dead thank god and then hopefully its useless owners cant get at it anymore thats the only salvation for this animal. Death.

Disgusting. Poor little mite.
 
While I do not agree with fly tipping, surely stringing up is a bit harsh! I had to ring the environmental health department last week about rubbish being left at the side of the road behind my office. The bags were split and were being investigated by an ever increasing number of rats :eek: While I feel that it is irresponsible to leave unwanted items of any sort by the side of the road,it's hardly a capital offence!
 
Not nice at all to dump any animal corpse in this fashion.
I don t suppose the type of this really cares for other peoples feelings..he/she just saved themselves a few bob, simple as that.
 
cptrayes said:
Isn't this an awful lot of fuss about a dead horse which is in no pain?
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Just what I was thinking! I quite understand that the person who saw the body on the way to work was shocked but if the body was not seriously damaged in some way, it is simply fallen stock. The problem is that if you want fallen stock removed, you have to pay for the service. People frequently refuse to pay for having their old sofas removed, preferring to dump them, so I'm not surprised that dead horses are being dumped.

I suugest that posters save their outrage for the really cruel acts that are perpetrated against children and animals by members of all strata of society.
 
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