Horse taken to vet hospital after latest in spate of dog attacks

A yard manager is urging dog owners to keep better control of their pets after one of her livery horses was attacked during the night and had to be rushed to a veterinary hospital.

Former racehorse Silver was found with puncture wounds and teeth marks either side of his hock joint, which had to be flushed, and X-rays later revealed the attack had been severe enough to graze his canon bone.

“He was crippled when we found him,” said Hailey Weston, who runs HW Equestrian, based between Bucklebury and Stanford Dingley in Berkshire. “His owner was away on holiday in South Africa as well, so we took him to the vets.

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Article written by: Sarah Radford