Animal cruelty drama

Intruder deliberately injures horse in stable box

A deep cut was inflicted on a horse by a previously unknown perpetrator in Carinthia on Sunday night.

Between 10 p.m. on Saturday and 6 a.m. on Sunday, a previously unknown perpetrator gained access to a paddock in Unterhaus in Spittal/Drau. He gained access to the associated stable boxes. In one of the stable boxes was a 28-year-old Oldenburger horse.

Deep cuts
In the early morning, between 5 and 6 a.m., the stable tenant wanted to feed the horses and take them to the paddock when she noticed a deep cut on the horse's rear right thigh.

She alerted the horse owners and they immediately called a vet to have the wound treated. The vet had to stitch up the wound in several layers and also established that it was clearly caused by someone else.

If you have any information, please contact the police at Seeboden am Millstätter See (Tel: [phone]).