just heard some very sad news :o(

i am gonna put the cat among the pigeons;

is this actually true? (i hope not)
its been 48hrs (ish) since it was first on here and nothing in the papers/on the news.
i woul have thought something would have been reported somewhere by now
 
jools123 said:
i am gonna put the cat among the pigeons;

is this actually true? (i hope not)
its been 48hrs (ish) since it was first on here and nothing in the papers/on the news.
i woul have thought something would have been reported somewhere by now
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It was reported on Radio Shropshire yesterday with an interview with the Landlord of a local pub who saw the search and rescue helicopter.
 
jools123 said:
i am gonna put the cat among the pigeons;

is this actually true? (i hope not)
its been 48hrs (ish) since it was first on here and nothing in the papers/on the news.
i woul have thought something would have been reported somewhere by now
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I did wonder the same thing as well - but maybe there is a reason they re not reporting it, or maybe if the driver/rider has been found they don't consider it worthy of a news item.
 
Hiya, I've not actually heard anything factual yet which is why I haven't posted.

The landlord that gave the interview is my friend's dad. According to the police (so far) nobody has reported an escaped/missing pony and no-one has reported anybody (rider or driver) as being missing, so what happened to the poor pony is a mystery.

The story changes depending on who you speak to - some people say the pony was in driving tack, some people say it was in saddle + bridle. Some people say it was a grey, some that is was a bay.

Having not actually seen the pony myself I can't comment further :( the only positive to come from this is that it doesn't appear anybody was seriously hurt as a result of this incident.

Somebody has rightly pointed out that the waters in the river severn are very fast moving and so poor little pony may have fallen in aywhere between wales + here and been transported down stream.

Wherever the owner is, they have my thoughts with them. :(

If I hear anymore about the situation I'll be sure to post but I don't want to post 'rumour' as I wouldnt want the pony's owner to maybe read my speculations :(

God bless you little pony xx
 
My brother lives overlooking the Severn in Shrewsbury, he says when the river is high there are often sheep and even cattle bodies washed down stream :(, so as thank heavens it appears no rider or driver has been injured I suspect this poor pony is not newsworth which is why there has been nothing in the paper.
 
Sadly if the pony was wearing a harness and nobody has reported it missing or its driver missing then it sounds like someone may have tried to drive it into the river in an attempt to drown it...very sad.
 
FinkleyAlex said:
Sadly if the pony was wearing a harness and nobody has reported it missing or its driver missing then it sounds like someone may have tried to drive it into the river in an attempt to drown it...very sad.
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Even though some people treat ponies as that disposable it's unlikely they'd have wanted to lose the harness:(
 
Murphys minder... Ive heard that too, there have even been the occasional missing 'jumpers' off a bridge turn up a week or so later floating through shrewsbury after going missing and then the bodies becoming dislodged after a downpour. Rip little pony :(
 
Local police have no further information apparently, still no local reports of missing/escaped ponies or missing persons so they've said its likely the horse fell into the water miles up stream and so they've made other authorities aware that they've recovered a horse.

What has happened to the poor pony seems to be something of a mystery :o( but at least it seems as though no-one was hurt/injured
 
The wife and I out walking Saturday evening saw a pony trapped in the branches of a willow tree in the Severn at Bridgnorth.
The poor creature was obviously beyond help and was of a pale brown colour and appeared to be wearing a Red bridle and the wife said she saw a strap of some description around its middle.
Its something you dont expect to see and after the stark realisation of what we had seen we then took a photograph to aid relocation later but by then he/she had slipped under the water.
We reported it to police and they informed me that a search had already been made.
Not being able to get this out of my mind we visited the same place on Sunday to find that it was no longer there.
I understand a pony has been recovered from the river in Worcester. Apparently this animal was brown in colour but did not have a red bridle
but was still harnessed to a cart of some description.
I'm sure we saw a red on its face but lets just hope that it is the same pony and not 2 have lost there lives.
 
Phil56 said:
The wife and I out walking Saturday evening saw a pony trapped in the branches of a willow tree in the Severn at Bridgnorth.
The poor creature was obviously beyond help and was of a pale brown colour and appeared to be wearing a Red bridle and the wife said she saw a strap of some description around its middle.
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How dreadful for you. I can't imagine how horrific that must have been.

Are you sure it was a bridle? Red's an unusual colour for a bridle, but a common one for a headcollar... Not that it matters to the poor pony, it's just it would throw some light on the circumstances leading to its loss.

Phil56 said:
I understand a pony has been recovered from the river in Worcester. Apparently this animal was brown in colour but did not have a red bridle
but was still harnessed to a cart of some description.
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I don't think we know any of this for sure. There's hearsay and a brief press report, but no official police statement.
 
Hello Fiona,

I'm a lover of horses but not very knowledgeable and not familiar with names of various pieces of tack so please excuse me.
After seeing all this we wanted to find out how and why this could happen.
A google search took me to the news item in the Worcester news

http://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/9805146.Dead_horse_pulled_from_river/

and your good selves on here and so we thought we would share the information we had.
I have spoken to someone from the fire service and they have confirmed the pony was brown in colour and was wearing leather and gold straps ( they could very well mean brass) and was still attached to a cart.

It was an awfull thing to see and we just hope the poor animal did'nt suffer to long.
 
It would seem the press report's been updated since it was first posted. It now says the poor thing did have a trap attached. :(

Poor, poor little horse.
 
Yes its on the fire service website too

http://www.hwfire.org.uk/news_events_pubs/news.html

Poor animal, just seems so strange it hasn't been reported missing. I read somewhere (could have been on fb) that a pony and sulky was seen in Cressage last week . It could all be speculation but the area is right for it to be washed down the river and if the owner was of the type suggested (trying to be pc here) then possibly they didn't bother reporting it.:(
 
FionaM12 said:
It would seem the press report's been updated since it was first posted. It now says the poor thing did have a trap attached. :(

Poor, poor little horse.
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My source was reliable then. I was told this at 8.45 this morning.
Ain't it a shame, poor little thing. Pony wandering from a field and into trouble is one thing but in a trap :(
 
This is such a tragic story and I hope the owner of the pony,who obviously has missed the pony if it was attached to a trap,has trouble sleeping for a long time.
 
So this may have been a deliberate act?

Without seeming like a total idiot, I don't see the benefit from doing this. I mean for one thing losing the trap and the tack, as well as the potetial sale/value of the pony.

Surely someone wouldn't do this for 'fun'?
 
LollyDolly said:
So this may have been a deliberate act?

Without seeming like a total idiot, I don't see the benefit from doing this. I mean for one thing losing the trap and the tack, as well as the potetial sale/value of the pony.

Surely someone wouldn't do this for 'fun'?
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I think their fun would lie somewhere in spending the insurance claim..after the 'break in where pony, trap & harnesses were all taken' Sending the guilty parties many angry eButterflies..to begin the butterfly karma phenomenon for that little pony..may they get everything they deserve.

Just to ad.. I am confused now..is this the same pony and trap we knew about last week..as I thought fire crews recovered that pony last week and then this one on sunday..one was one too many...but please can it just be one:-(
 
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I think it was just one. There was never any report of the earlier one being pulled out of the river, it said in the paper that the river was searched but nothing found. The severn is incredibly fast flowing at the moment, it is quite conceivable that the poor creature could have been washed down to Worcester.
I drove a good length of the river on Sunday, it was still over the fields in many places yet there were still horses grazing in adjacent fields. If they had been mine they would have been moved pdq.
 
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