Horror as pet horse found dead and 'gutted for her meat' outside Florida barn

FLORIDA -- Police are investigating the death of a horse in Florida that appears to have been slaughtered for her meat.

The owners arrived at their barn in Hialeah Gardens in Miami-Dade County on Wednesday afternoon after leaving the animal, named Pootie, happy and healthy the day before.

But what they found shocked them to the core. Not only had the horse been killed, but also gutted.

   

  

'That's not human,' owner Rolando Serrano told NBC 6.

'I don't know who could do that to an animal.'

 

Mr Serrano said he didn't realize what had happened when he first found the horse, believing it to be another animal that had come onto his land.

'Then I got closer and realized it was my horse,' he said.

'My wife was in tears.'

 

Mr Serrano had only had the white horse for one month.  He said it was seven-years-old.

Police were at the scene on Wednesday night looking for clues.

Mr Serrano has other horses at the barn that were not hurt.

(Daily Mail - Jan 7, 2015)