‘Pointless and senseless’: Family devastated after horse shot on B.C. farm | 24CA News
A Vancouver Island household is grieving a beloved horse, after they are saying somebody shot the animal on their property over the weekend.
Cash, a “super friendly” retired 25-year-old farm horse had been a staple on the property close to Nanaimo, B.C., for practically 20 years, in response to proprietor Jonathan Cairns.
“He’s always loved people … Every morning he comes up and if you don’t have your grain for him on time he’ll stomp around and toss his bowl around waiting for it,” he mentioned.
But that modified Sunday morning.
“He didn’t come up for his grain that morning. My dad brought his grain out and he wasn’t up there, which was extremely unusual,” he mentioned.
“And he went over and looked and as soon as he went around the corner and looked down the hill he could see him laying there.”
The household discovered Cash with a wound the scale of a baseball on his leg, and was compelled to place him down.
Cairns mentioned he believes the horse was shot was shot with a shotgun.
“And then he just left him there to suffer, lay there for hours in agony?” Cairns mentioned.
“It’s just pointless and senseless and it makes no sense.”
Cairns mentioned the household has often had trespassers or hunters on the property, however has by no means heard of something of this nature occurring within the space.
He added that it could be practically unattainable to mistake the horse for a deer or a bear.
Ladysmith RCMP is investigating the incident, however Cairns mentioned he’s not hopeful anybody will likely be dropped at justice for the capturing.
What’s extra, he mentioned he’s fearful another person may get damage.
“It’s pretty scary knowing that somebody is around here — what are they doing, shooting anything that moves? Are my kids safe? Are my dogs safe?”
The household is urging whoever is answerable for the incident to show themselves in to police.
In the meantime, Cairns mentioned he will likely be investing in path cameras to attempt to catch a picture of anybody trespassing on the property.
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