I don't think it sounds too ridiculous Crows and magpies will peck out the eyes of an animal that has died of natural causes, and opportunist scavengers will have a go at eating parts of a body. I can only imagine that this is what has happened in this case.
When I read original post Im sure it said pony organs had been removed.how can that be from natural causes.puh
The police need to do another PM and do tests.
I thought the same but there has also ben that stallion found dead in cornwall so maybe were mixing the two up?
Some predators do take/eat internal organs first apparently.
Eyes would be crows; they peck out the eyes and even the anuses of live lambs so a dead animal would be second nature. Nature can be pretty red in tooth and claw. So I wouldnt assume that a conclusion of death followed by scavenging is necessarily wrong (though it's possible).
Poor owner, I hope they find the justice their pony deserves with or without the police's help.
Sadly the authorities attitude doesn't surprise me, there is no way those injuries could have been caused naturally, and this verdict must have caused even more distress to the pony's owner if that is possible.
R.I.P sweet pony
True, but crows don't wait for lambs to die, just for them to be incapable of scaring the crows off Could have been the same for this pony.
Hmmm sounds like the original article was exaggerated some what.
I think the moral of this story is if your horse doesn't come when you go to feed it, don't leave it for another 12 hours but go and find it...
Ditto that. According to the owner she didn't see the horse in the morning when she went to check on the ponies, so he could have been dead for nigh on 24 hours. That seems like plenty of time for scavengers to get to work.Mollymum, sorry to hear that you lost Cindy under such terrible circumstances. I do think that there was plenty of time for the body to be scavenged and I don't believe that the police would say it was natural causes if they believed that there was any foul play inolved, I'm sure it would be too risky to allow a slaughter to go without investigation if there was a chance that the perpetrators could attack again or even move on to children etc.
Scavengers wouldn't have worked that quickly - unless it was in the desert. Why did the police decide it was natural causes? What did the vet say? Sorry if I havn't read this properly and have missed something - but, in my experience (I'm the owner of Cindy, who was deliberately mown down last June, in Somerset) the police only like cases where they can make a relatively easy arrest. (Not including PC Allen, of course, who was v. helpful to me.)
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