Pony abandoned to die KENT. WARNING distressing pics

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Some time during the evening or overnight on Boxing Day callous people cut a hole in a field fence in Old Ferry Lane on the outskirts of Iwade village, Kent and led a pony into the field where they dumped it and left it to die in the cold and rain.
Examination of hoofprints leads the finder to believe this pony was alive when dumped.
Because the local village children use the lane to ride their bicycles and skate boards a local woman took it upon herself to cover the body...
Police and RSPCA informed but the body is still there today Sun29th Dec
Can anyone identify an owner please?

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how awful I would imagine it came from the "community" that get away with this time and time again?

Are you on facebook "chit chat and tack" has over 30 thousand members so someone may remember this poor sad little soul. What a world we live in.
 
This looks very similar to one we dealt with here on Christmas Eve. That was a horrible cold wet and windy night.
Fortunately I had a phone no for the owner and he came out and was persuaded to call a vet. Poor little filly was PTS eventually by the vet but was emaciated (had lost weight relatively quickly even though most of the time they had access to a big bale of hay) and couldn't get warm even though we wrapped her in a couple of rugs. Every now and again she would make an attempt to get up, and once the vet had had a listen I think she might have been colicking. I strongly suspected acorn poisoning, there were numerous oak trees around and there would have been intervals between finishing one bale of hay and him bringing another.
I wonder if the one in the photos also had the same problems.
 
Cuffey said:
Some time during the evening or overnight on Boxing Day callous people cut a hole in a field fence in Old Ferry Lane on the outskirts of Iwade village, Kent and led a pony into the field where they dumped it and left it to die in the cold and rain.
Examination of hoofprints leads the finder to believe this pony was alive when dumped.
Because the local village children use the lane to ride their bicycles and skate boards a local woman took it upon herself to cover the body...
Police and RSPCA informed but the body is still there today Sun29th Dec
Can anyone identify an owner please?

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:(:(:(:(:(:( poor pony RIP little one. Hope they find the guilty ones for this ponies sake .
 
This is so dreadful.
If the pony was led to that field, he was either transported there ( so why not take it to a vet or rescue centre for someone to care for it) or it was walked there, in which case it couldn't have walked too far. Are there fields local to this place that contained horses? gelding or mare? Height? Not shod but feet look as if they were trimmed so maybe not one from a large herd of 'meat' horses.
 
Leviathan said:
:(:(:(:(:(:( poor pony RIP little one. Hope they find the guilty ones for this ponies sake .
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But what would happen to them? Nothing. Until people actually have to start paying for their crimes nothing will change.

Poor pony, sadly you are not the first nor the last. RIP.
 
Tears in my eyes - poor little mite :(. As others have said, judging from the ground around the little scrap, it didn't die peacefully :(.

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If pony was alive when taken to field wonder why it died,if it was very old ? Doesn't look starved from the picture. Poor thing, there are such cruel people in the world
 
Just to confirm that the dead pony is female
Also that this is the second time this year

A lady has posted:
''On 28th January I reported to the police a dead horse laying in a field
at Old Ferry Road, Iwade, Nr Sittingbourne, Kent. Later that evening I
also telephoned the RSPCA to report the horse due to the terrible
condition the body was in and the fact that the animal had been left to
suffer for many weeks before dying.''

The lady has never had any updates from RSPCA
 
It looks as if this poor little filly had colic & circled & thrashed till she died. Presume they were too tight to call a vet, she might have been saved. Some horrible irresponsible people out there.
 
Cuffey said:
Just to confirm that the dead pony is female
Also that this is the second time this year

A lady has posted:
''On 28th January I reported to the police a dead horse laying in a field
at Old Ferry Road, Iwade, Nr Sittingbourne, Kent. Later that evening I
also telephoned the RSPCA to report the horse due to the terrible
condition the body was in and the fact that the animal had been left to
suffer for many weeks before dying.''

The lady has never had any updates from RSPCA
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This sort of response ( lack of!) by the RSPCA should be made VERY public. Can the Daily Mail or the like be alerted or run a feature?
 
There had been similar situation near Faversham last winter: believed to be a community went through the fence and dumped a horse to die on a field belonging to a local farmer. Poor b ugger didn't die peacefully either, was found bloated and ground around in the same state as on this fotos.
Local horsy people passed a hat around in the pub to help the farmer with costs of body disposal.
 
Just to say the pony was at last removed today after Police visited the landowner.
Not satisfactory that a proper investigation has not been done (as far as I know)
Annoying also that the landowner appears to have been left to pay for removal.
 
Cuffey said:
Just to say the pony was at last removed today after Police visited the landowner.
Not satisfactory that a proper investigation has not been done (as far as I know)
Annoying also that the landowner appears to have been left to pay for removal.
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so it was dumped boxing day and only taken till today to be removed. That is disgusting and poor landowner having to deal with it and pay for it while the people who did this get away with it
 
Poor baby, RIP little one. I have started a different thread about yet another dead pony dumped in Chobham, Surrey over the weekend. What a cruel and evil world we live in. I feel very sad :( :( :(
 
On the news it said they would not be following up this story.This was with referance to the police and the two ponies found dead.The courts punishments are not harsh enough maybe this is the new trend the in thing in cruelty.Fields lanes littered with dead ponies and the authourities dont care.Maybe same person doing it.Well i hope they come accross one of the owners one night.we will see how brave they are then.probley pee there pants.It will be some spinless low life freek whos doin it no guts pig ugly has it take things out on a pony.probley reading these posts and papers admireing his handy work.well spinless freaks you never know who could be down a lane watching you one night.
 
Thank you for the update 1Anastasia, hopefully there is now ''an interest'' in animal welfare in that area.
Saddened though that a dead pony was of no interest to RSPCA etc
 
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