Vacationing in a small town isn't always as uneventful as you might think
My home town in Tennessee is a sleepy farm town where the trains don't slow down as they whistle through day and night. We don't even have a stop light, just a caution light at the intersection of Highway 41 and Church Street.
We're more likely to tell you the story of the Bell Witch or complain about the lack of rain and what it's doing to the corn and soybeans rather than worry about the murder rate. Though we have had a body or two found near or in Red River.
But that doesn't mean horrible things don't happen here.
We were watching "The Young and Restless" when we noticed a policeman in the yard. Sonny went out to talk to him and came back to let us know that someone had attacked one of the horses on the property behind mom's house sometime last night or early this morning.
This morning about seven, my mom's neighbor went out to check on her horses. Fancy, a brown and white paint, had a tobacco ax stuck in its forehead. Fortunately the ax didn't penetrate the skull and kill the horse. The local vet was able to remove the ax and treat the horse. Our neighbor has taken the horse to a vet in Kentucky for further treatment. She wants to make sure that there are no bone fragments in danger of penetrating the horse's brain. The horse is being boarded until the police can find out who might have done this.
The police have the tobacco ax and are hoping to find fingerprints or other evidence that might lead to who might have hurt the horse.
There's been other cases of pets being hurt in the last year or so. One of Mom's dogs appeared to have been cut and Mom doesn't let him out of the yard anymore.
If this is someone who has graduated from dogs and cats to horses, who knows what or who they might attack next. Or who they might have hurt already.
ETA: Local news story: Horse Found With Skull Split By Ax
We're more likely to tell you the story of the Bell Witch or complain about the lack of rain and what it's doing to the corn and soybeans rather than worry about the murder rate. Though we have had a body or two found near or in Red River.
But that doesn't mean horrible things don't happen here.
We were watching "The Young and Restless" when we noticed a policeman in the yard. Sonny went out to talk to him and came back to let us know that someone had attacked one of the horses on the property behind mom's house sometime last night or early this morning.
This morning about seven, my mom's neighbor went out to check on her horses. Fancy, a brown and white paint, had a tobacco ax stuck in its forehead. Fortunately the ax didn't penetrate the skull and kill the horse. The local vet was able to remove the ax and treat the horse. Our neighbor has taken the horse to a vet in Kentucky for further treatment. She wants to make sure that there are no bone fragments in danger of penetrating the horse's brain. The horse is being boarded until the police can find out who might have done this.
The police have the tobacco ax and are hoping to find fingerprints or other evidence that might lead to who might have hurt the horse.
There's been other cases of pets being hurt in the last year or so. One of Mom's dogs appeared to have been cut and Mom doesn't let him out of the yard anymore.
If this is someone who has graduated from dogs and cats to horses, who knows what or who they might attack next. Or who they might have hurt already.
ETA: Local news story: Horse Found With Skull Split By Ax