When she went to the field, she was shocked to find the two dead horses with blood around their eyes, noses and mouths.She told The Scottish Mail on Sunday how she checked on the five horses in the field on Christmas Day, before her concerns were raised the following day after she received calls telling […]
When she went to the field, she was shocked to find the two dead horses with blood around their eyes, noses and mouths.She told The Scottish Mail on Sunday how she checked on the five horses in the field on Christmas Day, before her concerns were raised the following day after she received calls telling her people had been seen near them.
The animals were found on Boxing Day in Kelso, Roxburghshire, with the incident also linked initially to the possible poisoning of two goats nearby around the same time – but police have found nothing to suggest a connection.By GRAHAM GRANT, HOME AFFAIRS EDITOR FOR THE SCOTTISH DAILY MAIL ‘It’s heartbreaking for all involved. One of the owners had just come down to see their horse, Ronan, at Christmas, and the other, Buttons, was owned by an 11-year-old child, so to tell her that was just heartbreaking.‘Various items of vegetation can be poisonous to horses and many people don’t realise this. A person not far from here also lost two goats to suspected poisoning.’‘People have been spotted lifting their dogs into the field and letting them run off the lead.‘We have 70 horses and our fields are padlocked and surrounded by signs warning people not to enter or feed the horses but we still see people, many with dogs, going in.Stable owner Jenny Wilson said she believed the animals were either deliberately or accidentally poisoned and claimed it was ‘not an isolated incident’, following the deaths of the goats nearby. A Police Scotland spokesman said: ‘On Thursday, January 2, 2025, we received a report of the death of two horses in a field near Kelso on Thursday, December 26, 2024.
Police investigating the deaths of two horses believed to have been poisoned in a field used by a top equestrian centre have said there is no evidence of ‘criminality’.The horses belong to local people and were paddocked in a field beside the town’s Hunter Bridge, which is used by the nearby Nenthorn Equestrian Centre’s stable.Published: | Updated: It is understood police do not believe the deaths of the goats and horses are connected.‘Inquiries were carried out and no criminality was established.’Ms Wilson said: ‘We’ve been in business for over 50 years and have never seen anything like what we witnessed here.
