Military investigates 5 'trespass horses' found gunned down in army training area

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Military investigates 5 'trespass horses' found gunned down in army training area
By Theresa Braine
| New York Daily News |
Jan 01, 2019 | 2:45 AM



Five horses found shot to death in a military training area near Fort Polk in Louisiana were clearly murdered, an animal rights group said.

The massacred animals were discovered by Fort Polk personnel in a wooded area near the army base, in the western part of the state. The horses’ presence in the area has long been contested as 700 of them commonly roam over 198,000 acres straddling Kisatchie National Forest and the military property -- the Fort Polk Military Reservation and the Peason Ridge Military Training Area, according to the Times-Picayune. They are known to the military as “trespass horses” because they cross the manmade border between the two and pose a potential danger to military operations there.

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-news-horses-shot-fort-polk-military-training-20181231-story.html

[Smokin Joe]

So, these are a very small part of a wild herd. Not domesticated horses.

Bad form, and the carcasses should have been disposed of. We don't know the exact circumstances of their deaths, and may never know.
And yes, wild horses can be dangerous.