This message is from: kate charboneau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linda, I'm very glad your mare's okay.
A neighbor's horse was attacked a couple springs ago by an adult male black bear. Those marks were primarily rump & back. So I think that rules out black bears, as your perpetrator. In northern MN we have many large owls, and eagles and I have seen them hunt. I'd rule them out as your perpetrator.I'd do as someone else said & check for old fencing left by previous farmers. Sometimes in the spring it will come up out of the ground as the frost moves things around. I'd also seriously consider cougar/mountail lion. We have them here in our area, there have been some problems (few & far between) and the marks are very much as you describe. The most problem we had was when a guy released some young adults that had been his "pets". They were not nearly as leery as the fully wild cougars so there were many sightings, and their hunting skills were poor. That made for a bad year for livestock in a suprisingly large area. Victims I heard about were sheep, goats, yearling cows, and ponies. _________________________________________________________________ Keep your kids safer online with Windows Live Family Safety. http://www.windowslive.com/family_safety/overview.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_Refr esh_family_safety_052008 The FjordHorse List archives can be found at: http://tinyurl.com/rcepw
