splashgirl45
Lurcher lover
a very sad outcome. he was mentioned on anglia news tonightsaying he had been found and showing a pic of him....
Central News, Anglia Region
TicToc didn't just 'lose' his rug. Seems he did go under criminal circumstances. How terribly sad. Bless you Josh and Catriona xx
Genie
Central News, Anglia Region
The cause of Tic Toc's death remains unknown and there are no obvious factors. He was found close to a shallow dyke about half a mile from the family home by a dog walker. The rug which he always wore was missing.The area had been searched again and again said Mrs Porter, "probably hundreds of times" and it's unlikely he would have been missed.She feels Tic Toc had been kept by someone and dumped several weeks after he disappeared. She says the police have been informed and are investigating.
TicToc didn't just 'lose' his rug. Seems he did go under criminal circumstances. How terribly sad. Bless you Josh and Catriona xx
Genie
What brings you to that conclusion! You are only going on what was on FB it is being milked im afraid!
£1000 reward, upped to £6000 reward. Why would anyone who had stolen a low value pony not collect the cash?
I agree with this. For those who aren't familiar with the area - it is abundant with large drainage dykes and a pony would struggle to cross any real ground without coming across a good deal of dykes. I'm afraid the lack of rug isn't enough to suggest he has been stolen and dumped.
I am currently seething. I live fairly close to where Tic Toc was lost. I have had a pony dumped on me yesterday which was found playing in traffic. We are unable to contact or find owners. I've just rung the police whose response was "What do you expect us to do about it". I said "Well ideally you'll be able to tell me that someone has reported it lost or missing". The reply? "Oh we don't deal with that you'll need to contact the RSPCA". I did get them to take my address and phone number but only at my suggestion.
So I rang the RSCPA - my local animal rehoming centre. No option for horses so used the "Report a stray cat or dog" option. Very nice girl said they couldn't deal with lost pony, they just do cats and dogs - although I persuaded her to take my name and phone number just in case someone rang - and I had to ring the main number, which she gave me. At that point there is an option for horses, great! I thought, until it proved to be a recorded message telling me that all horses come with a freezemark and to ring Farmkey!
The upshot is that I have someone else's pony in my yard. No-one wanted to take details about him - it wasn't until I pushed them that they did. I don't expect that his owners wanted him, it looks as though they have cleared out and left him behind and the landlord has opened the gate and let him out, but the police and the RSPCA don't know that and they just didn't care.
Totally agree and who in their right mind would dump him back so close to where he went missing!How sad..
Im not sure why there's such a fascination of him being stolen? Does it make it easier to accept the death knowing someone else caused it and not it was just an accident? Someone to blame? Either way the poor thing has been found now at least there's some closure.
I can't see any logical reason for anyone to steal him and I think things like fb don't help with making a mountain out of a mole hill
RIP tic toc.
I agree with this. For those who aren't familiar with the area - it is abundant with large drainage dykes and a pony would struggle to cross any real ground without coming across a good deal of dykes. I'm afraid the lack of rug isn't enough to suggest he has been stolen and dumped.
I find it strange a pony/horse would wander off on its own away from its herd, yes it would graze a small distance away, but mine are never far from each other and usually end up all grazing together soon after one moves away to some scrummy grass. Maybe they can injure themselves when falling in to the dyle so unable to get back out.
There are so many questions in the horsey world and life itself, if we only knew all the answers.
Sorry if I'm being completely ignorant here, and I don't mean to be insensitive - but I don't understand how a pony could not get out of a drainage dyke? Are they not just like dug out streams with sloping banks either side? Are the banks too steep? Do they get slippery?
Are drainage dykes dangerous for lots of animals, including wild animals?