Horse hair thievery continues
By Joshua Scheer, reporter, county10.com
(Fremont County, Wyo.) – Fremont County Sheriff’s Capt. Ryan Lee said horse hair thieves are continuing to take the tails from horses in the Kinnear and Pavillion area of Fremont County.
“We’ve handled four or five this morning,” Lee said Monday afternoon.
Throughout the last week, Lee said his office has received roughly eight reports of horses’ tails being cut and the hair taken. He did not have an exact count on hand. Several horses with cut tails were reported in the Kinnear area Sunday evening.
“I would assume they’re connected,” Lee said.
He said the sheriff’s office did not have leads to possible suspects.
Lee is asking for people to “keep a keen eye” and to “report suspicious activity.”
The Casper and Glenrock areas also have been hit by horse hair thieves this summer. This year’s first related incident in Fremont County was in January, followed by several reports in early spring and one last week.
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Keep your eye out Elaine!
Thanks for the heads up, hope they stay off of our property!
it is way worse in casper this has been going on since the first of the year everyone needs to keep there eyes open and ears open the people that's doing this haven't been keeping their mouths shut so please come forward with information to stop this from continuing! horses use there tails to swat away flies and misquitos and other bugs that bite.
Thanks for spreading the word! They got three of my mom's horses and two of my mom's neighbor's horses over the weekend (out in Kinnear), and this morning, a friend found two of their horses with missing tails in Riverton (off of Raintree). Someone, somewhere has to know something…
that is horrible who would do that
When I went to work one of the customers at the Kinnear store said her day got started wrong. when she got up and went out she found one of her horses had its tail missing! Sick people.
Hmmm…didn't they use to hang horse thieves in the old days? Same difference eh?
this is sick!! What's wrong with people?
What exactly can we do or watch for? and I need to know so I can do it! id love to catch these pathetic abusive A…..HLS. sorry but I'm so tired of animal cruelty….
I am just curious….what do these people want with the horse tails? I don't know much about horses, just read this article and it seems weird to me. People sure do some crazy, meaningless stuff.
I hope they stay away from my horses! I think this is horrible! Why can't we catch these losers? Don't they have to be selling them somewhere?
I hope they stay away from my horses! I think this is horrible! Why can't we catch these losers? Don't they have to be selling them somewhere?
That's so awful. Hopefully they won't do that to your horses and I hope that they will stop
I totally agree with you. It's so awful.
How would they feel if someone did that to them
This happened to a friend of mine just last week. Major bummer!!!
In colorado Shannon? Wow I thought it might be just the crazies here. Its a major bummer.