April
13
/ 2022
An article in the magazine The Horse entitled Carnivorous Horses by Dr Sue McDonnell in which she described horses killing and devouring other animals, spurred some letters to the editors from readers who had themselves witnessed some odd horse behavior. They related that a horse grabbed a goat with its teeth, shook it to death, and started tearing it apart and consumed the meat. Three other horses also joined in and started tearing the goat’s flesh and eating it. One man wrote, “ They all grabbed some part of the goat with their teeth and tore it to pieces with all the tugging and pulling. The one that killed the goat had the biggest part of what was left… Soon
