WTH?

[9tails]

Mystery as headless horse washes up on Wales beach

The poor animal was left for four days.

metro.co.uk

 

[Barton Bounty]

WTF IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE

 

[Carol Singing Dawg]

How horrible, and with links after the article to four sheep decapitated by a sword. What's going on in this country?

 

[Baywonder]

I have no words.......

 

[Lurfy]

Stop the world, I want to get off.

 

[Barton Bounty]

This kind of thing gives me the fear.. as does fireworks and Chinese lanterns.

 

[J&S]

This is dreadful. About 7 years ago we found a headless pony on the beach at Thurleston, S. Devon. It was out of tourist season but obviously people still around. We informed the police and the local newspaper who put a very limited article on the papers website, (with a warning!) nothing in the actual press. The pony was taken away by a local farmer early next morning. The image has stayed with me to this day, nothing was ever discovered as to ownership/loss. Very hard to understand. Could these deaths be linked to past incidents of stabbing and mutilation?

 

[Snow Falcon]

Dreadful. What is wrong with people?

 

[Snowfilly]

There was a headless pony found in Cornwall about 10 years ago, a farmer collected him from the beach and nothing was ever said / done about it.

There were the waves of horse mutilations and attacks in the past, and nothing ever seemed to be resolved there.

There’s some deeply sick people in the world. Those poor souls.

I do wonder if they’d died on a ferry to Europe for meat and been thrown off? Doesn’t explain the head though.

 

[Birker2020]

Maybe its to do with a pagan ritual?

 

[PinkvSantaboots]

Awful

 

[reynold]

RSPCA condemns 'barbaric torturers' who bound hedgehog's legs, slashed his spines and painted him blue

The badly injured hedgehog had to be put down because vets could not save him

www.telegraph.co.uk

Not free to read. Fakenham - hedgehog found with it's hind legs taped together, it's spines cut off and spray painted blue. It had to be put down.

There are some very sick 'not born in wedlock' people around.

 

[hairycob]

The school near us used to have a farm unit & my youngest used to help on it before classes. One morning they found one of the sheep hung by a rope round it's neck in a tree.

 

[gryff]

It wasn't headless. The press have made up that snippet apparently. There are feral ponies on the salt Marsh. Because they've lived on the estuary for generations, they know the tides and high ground, but every now and then one gets caught out. That's what locals think may have haven't to this one. There are also ponies living wild on the cliffs; others think it may be one that's gone over the edge. Nothing sinister at play here.

 

[Velcrobum]

Llanelli: Two dead horses found washed up on beach

The two animals were discovered badly decomposed on the sands.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Rumtytum]

It wasn't headless. The press have made up that snippet apparently. There are feral ponies on the salt Marsh. Because they've lived on the estuary for generations, they know the tides and high ground, but every now and then one gets caught out. That's what locals think may have haven't to this one. There are also ponies living wild on the cliffs; others think it may be one that's gone over the edge. Nothing sinister at play here.

Thanks Gryff for letting us know, it’s a relief

 

[TheMule]

It wasn't headless. The press have made up that snippet apparently. There are feral ponies on the salt Marsh. Because they've lived on the estuary for generations, they know the tides and high ground, but every now and then one gets caught out. That's what locals think may have haven't to this one. There are also ponies living wild on the cliffs; others think it may be one that's gone over the edge. Nothing sinister at play here.

Thank you for speaking some sense

 

[Elf On A Shelf]

If these are indeed just unfortunate wild ponies rather than purposefully dumped ones then the biggest question would be - why were they not removed sooner?

 

[gryff]

Council ineptitude? Or the estuary is mudflats. Perhaps they couldn't get vehicles to them due to tides? We've also had some awful rain here. That might be a factor?

 

[Elf On A Shelf]

Council ineptitude? Or the estuary is mudflats. Perhaps they couldn't get vehicles to them due to tides? We've also had some awful rain here. That might be a factor?

True. Though a few strong people, a tarp and some rope would have shifted them enough to where it was safe for vehicles. But then maybe I am just far too practical for my own good.

 

[MerryMaxmas]

It wasn't headless. The press have made up that snippet apparently. There are feral ponies on the salt Marsh. Because they've lived on the estuary for generations, they know the tides and high ground, but every now and then one gets caught out. That's what locals think may have haven't to this one. There are also ponies living wild on the cliffs; others think it may be one that's gone over the edge. Nothing sinister at play here.

I really hope that's the case, the alternative is unthinkable

 

[Widgeon]

It wasn't headless. The press have made up that snippet apparently. There are feral ponies on the salt Marsh. Because they've lived on the estuary for generations, they know the tides and high ground, but every now and then one gets caught out. That's what locals think may have haven't to this one. There are also ponies living wild on the cliffs; others think it may be one that's gone over the edge. Nothing sinister at play here.

That was my first thought too - sad drowning / other accidental death of feral ponies, and if one was headless, that could happen with a body being repeatedly battered against rocks etc. The simplest explanation is probably the most likely.