A dead foal and a decapitated horse were placed close to a small high street, and the community is furious that they haven’t been moved yet.
It is believed that the animals were abandoned on Saturday night or Sunday morning in a bridleway close to High Street, Claverley, close to Bridgnorth.
The carcasses are rotting in the heat and coated in maggots.
On public territory, deceased animals must be collected by local authorities; on private land, the proprietor bears this responsibility.
“We were told it would be dealt with as soon as possible,” stated a homeowner who visited the scene this morning and snapped a picture at approximately 10.15 a.m. On Sunday, that was. It will soon be Wednesday afternoon. It is breaking down, and the temperature will reach 28 degrees Celsius. Maggots are all over it.
To locate the remains, RSPCA animal rescue officers Meg Cross and Sarah Guest went to the scene.
“We’re grateful to the member of the public who contacted us,” stated Sarah, who is conducting investigations in the wake of the finding. Finding it must have been extremely unpleasant and disturbing.
When we visited, the dead bay was discovered in three pieces, each of which was covered with a tarpaulin. They seem to have been dead for longer than when they were supposedly discarded because there were flies and maggots.
We were unable to find a microchip because of the state of the remains. The horse, which we assume is a mare, had lengthy hooves and seemed underweight.
“The circumstances are obviously a cause for concern, and we are looking into what may have happened here, but we do not know how the pony or mare died.”
The discovery of a dead foal and a beheaded horse in “suspicious circumstances” has prompted an RSPCA information request.
On Sunday, a member of the public in Claverley, Shropshire, found the remains down a byway.
“We don’t know how the pony or mare died but the circumstances are clearly a potential cause for concern, and we are looking into what may have happened here,” a spokesperson for the animal charity said. The female horse, which looked underweight and had long hooves, was discovered in three pieces and covered with a tarpaulin.
One of the RSPCA’s animal rescue officers who responded to the incident, Sarah Guest, stated that they were also unable to find a microchip.
She stated that the animals seemed to have been dead for a longer period of time than when they were supposedly discarded.
The charity has asked anyone with knowledge to get in touch with them.
In order to remove the horses, Shropshire Council has also been approached.