Monday, October 31, 2011

Michigan: Sugar, Mattawan's 'junkyard horse,' is finally put to sleep

MICHIGAN -- Sugar, who had reached iconic status as the "junkyard horse of Mattawan," has died.

She was at least 34.


The chocolate-brown mare was put to sleep Saturday, according to the wife of Don Austin, owner of Mattawan Auto Sales on Main Street, where the chocolate-brown mare grazed among old farm equipment and pickups and other items from the salvage yard.

Yes, that's a brilliant idea. Let an old, half-blind horse drag itself around a junkyard which is full of things to trip over, things to accidentally impale the horse with, things the horse might accidentally ingest...



Sugar had her own Facebook page, where people regularly reported sightings of her in her pen or share memories of feeding the mare years ago in their youth.

What is with the puff piece on this horse which was forced to live in disgusting conditions? Oh, she had her own Facebook page... wow. I never saw a Facebook page dedicated to an emaciated horse living in a junkyard. Good lord, MLive, what is wrong with you???

(MLive - October 31, 2011)

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