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Beloved Pet Horse Shot on First Day of Deer Hunting Season
posted 6:48 pm Mon December 01, 2008
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Vernon Stottlemyer says his sister-in-law's 12-year-old gelding, Prince, was found with a bullet hole in his stomach Saturday evening.
Sue Ellen Stottlemyer said Prince was her first pet. "You could put anybody on Prince and he was just a gentle, gentle horse," she said.
Saturday night Stottlemyer found Prince in his pasture. He'd been shot once through the stomach. "I think it was an accident," she said of her first thought after seeing the horse shot. "I think it was somebody very careless."
Stottlemyer said she heard hunters' gunshots throughout the day Saturday. Around six o'clock that night Prince's pasture mate Sheila let the family know Prince had been hurt. "I knew when he didn't come running that something was wrong," said Stottlemyer
The Stottlemyers are avid hunters themselves, in fact, Saturday Vernon Stottlemyer killed a deer. "I've hunted all my life, but you have to be responsible," he said.
Prince was shot yards from this home and the family said the bullet could have hit someone inside or a child out playing. Whether it was a hunter who mistakenly shot at Prince or a stray bullet, the Stottlemyers want the person who pulled the trigger to come forward. "Just to kind of put my heart at rest and to say yeah I made a mistake," said Sue Ellen Strottlemyer. "That's all I really care about."
Maryland Natural Resources Police are investigating. They aren't sure if it was a stray bullet or someone who mistook Prince for a deer.
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Information from: The Frederick (Md.) News-Post
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Just Me Again...
3:52 pm on 12/02/08
Where I board my horses, we have it posted every 10 feet around the whole property that it's private property, no hunting, violators will be prosecuted. Not to mention, my barn's across the street from a neighborhood where hunting is definately ILLEGAL. However, we have idiots who basically "poach" on that land because they know the deer are there and they don't care where they hunt as long as "I get muh kill ... yuk yuk yuk."
There are some hunters who do everything legally, but then there's that select few who should be shot themselves.
We lost a horse at our barn years ago so now no horses are let out at night or early morning from 11/15 - 12/31 - they are only let out under the watchful eye of our caretaker in the exercise pen.
There are some hunters who do everything legally, but then there's that select few who should be shot themselves.
We lost a horse at our barn years ago so now no horses are let out at night or early morning from 11/15 - 12/31 - they are only let out under the watchful eye of our caretaker in the exercise pen.
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