Family’s Beloved Pony Gets Lost, Found By Police Officer — Who Shoots And Kills It

Posted: March 5, 2015


Family’s Beloved Pony Gets Lost, Found By Police Officer — Who Shoots And Kills It

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When the Fitzgeralds’ beloved, 30-year-old pony, an American Miniature Horse, wandered out of its barn back on February 18, he made it just 150 yards down the road into a neighbor’s yard when the animal decided to lie down and rest for a while. When the neighbor called police, a sheriff’s deputy showed up and tried to get the pony named Gir to stand up.

But Gir, described as a stubborn little horse by the Fitzgeralds, didn’t feel like getting up. So the officer shot Gir twice, killing the family pet.

Now the family wants to know what really happened, because they don’t accept the Clackamas County sheriff’s explanation for why Gir was killed in what they say was nothing but an act of cruelty — both to the horse and to the family to whom Gir was a cherished member of the family. Especially for their youngest little girl.

“My youngest is a shy little girl with social issues,” dad Adam Fitzgerald told the Portland Tribune newspaper. “But if you ask her about her pony, she will open right up. So it helped her with issues like that.”

According to the sheriff’s department version, when the deputy found Gir, he believed the horse had been struck by a car and had “been in distress for hours.” So he took it upon himself to euthanize the animal, which “is something we usually do,” said sheriff’s spokesperson Sgt. Nate Thompson.

But the Fitzgerald’s don’t buy it. When mom Crista Fitzgerald saw Gir lying in the neighbor’s yard she thought the cute little horse was just napping. But when she leaned down to pet the horse, she saw that he was lying dead in his own blood.

So they sent Gir’s body to Oregon State University’s veterinary department where an autopsy was performed. The autopsy said that Gir was in perfect health, except for a case of arthritis — not unsual for a 30-year-old animal — that the family managed with pain medication.

The Fitzgeralds say that Gir did not stand up for the deputy most likely because he hadn’t received his pain meds that morning and was aching from the 150 yard stroll.

The autopsy showed no broken bones, except from the gunshot wounds.

The sheriff’s department said that the deputy called the Oregon Humane Society before shooting the horse, but the OHS said it never received such a call. The deputy did speak to a local vet, who offered to handle the euthanization. But the deputy told the vet not to bother. He’d do it himself.

“If he had the pony’s best interests in mind he would have taken the time to find how to have done it properly, and not have let my pony bleed out in my neighbor’s front yard,” Adam Fitzgerald told KOIN News.

The Oregon Humane Society is now conducting its own investigation into the death of the beloved pony shot by a police officer, an the Fitzgeralds say they are seeking a lawyer’s advice about what to do next.

[Image: KBOI TV]


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Comment by Joe Blo on March 6, 2015 at 1:15am
If it can be established that this particular officer lied about the circumstances regarding the death of the horse (particularly WHY and HOW the horse died), and he included these lies in his official police report, I think it would be fair to say that any investigation or arrest that he has made with this department should now be called into question. The family would be wise to seek out the advice from an organization such as the Animal Legal Defense Fund for guidance in pursuing the animal cruelty aspect of this case. This officer should be forced to undergo a psychological evaluation and should be charged with falsifying a police report, practicing euthanasia without a license, failure to properly report and dispose of an animal carcass, discharging a firearm on private property for no justifiable reason, etc.

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