QLD:Shetland pony dragged behind car

AAP General News (Australia)
12-26-2010
QLD:Shetland pony dragged behind car

A shetland pony is lucky to be alive after being cruelly dragged by a rope behind a
car on Christmas day in southeast Queensland.

The RSPCA says it was first thought the pony would have to be put down because it was
in so much pain following the incident on Murphy's Creek Road .. east of Toowoomba.

It says the pony sustained severe lacerations to its legs and its hooves were torn and bloodied.

RSPCA spokesman MICHAEL BEATTY says they need to find out who the pony belongs to and
more about what happened.

At the moment they know witnesses confronted two men who'd been dragging the pony in
a brown 1988-89 VN Holden Commodore at one yesterday afternoon.

Anyone with information on the incident should call the RSPCA's complaints hotline
on 1300 852 188.

AAP RTV dac/sw/

KEYWORD: SHETLAND (BRISBANE)

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