Pony left to bleed to death after having throat cut
The Dublin Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (DSPCA) is horrified after a pony was left to bleed to death in west Dublin last week.
The two-year-old pony was attacked in a field in Ongar, near Clonsilla in the early hours of Friday (14 May).
Its throat was slashed with a stanley knife.
The DSPCA have labelled the attack “one of the most horrendous animal crimes” it has ever come across.
Members of the public called the DSPCA but the pony was already dead by time inspectors reached it.
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A graduate of Exeter University, Amy joined our news team from Redpin Publishing in 2008 as news writer. She was promoted to deputy news editor in May 2013 and became news editor in April 2015. She left Horse & Hound in March 2016 to take up an editorial position in Dubai.