29 August 2016
Stolen Horse InternationalTM/NetPosseTM is issueing this warning to all Florida horse owners, but particularly those in the Miami-Dade, around the Tampa-St. Petersburg area, along the I-95 & I-75 corridors, Ocala, and the Lake City areas.
We are getting reports of horses being shot and either killed outright or wounded badly enough that euthanasia has been the only option. In several cases, various means of stabbing and other torture was used. This has also resulted in the deaths of horses.
It does not appear to matter if the horses are visible from the road or not. While drive-by type shootings are occuring, there are also reports of injury and death where the culprit had to trespass onto someone's property in order to get to the horses. In some cases, they actually entered barns and stalls.
While there is no fail-safe way to make your barn and pasture 100% safe, there are a few things that you can do to make it less likely to happen.
Please take whatever measures you feasibly can take to ensure the safety and well-being of your equine partners as well as that of any other livestock. While we can never understand why people do things like this, we can at least make it as tough as possible for them to do it.
Remember, too, that we have Criminal Attack reports available to assist in finding the culprits and bringing them before a judge to answer for their crimes. These people do not operate in a vaccuum. They will talk to people to brag on their actions. What's worse-they will strike again and again. And they will-eventually-move up to doing this to people. That makes it imperative that somebody stops them.
The FBI has even started a database to track these people-that's how important this is. Help us help you find and bring these people to justice. Criminal Attack reports are free.
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