The act would have been committed three days ago but the owner, realized this weekend.
On Saturday, a pregnant mare was found dead with her left ear cut off in the town of Sauvelade, in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques, we learned from the Orthez gendarmerie, confirming information from the South West.
The gendarmerie considers that the mutilation is "of human origin", the attacker (s) having "probably" taken the ear "as a kind of trophy".
A criminal identification technician from the Pau gendarmerie and a veterinarian made Saturday observations and readings on the corpse of the mare, which was to give birth in the spring.
“Shame on those who do that!
"
The owner of the 3-year-old mare filed a complaint on Sunday morning, says La République des Pyrénées.
On Facebook, he denounced an "act of barbarism".
“Shame on those who do that!
”He wrote.
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