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Horse picks up toddler, kills him

 

December 12, 2007 03:20pm

 

AN 18-month-old Perth boy has died after a horse picked him up with its teeth and threw him several metres.

 

The toddler and his mother were in a paddock on their property in Oakford, south of Perth, when the accident happened on Monday afternoon.

 

Police said the horse picked the boy up by the neck with its teeth and threw him into the air several metres.

 

The boy was in a critical condition and died in Princess Margaret Hospital this morning.

 

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22912592-29277,00.html

poor kid (and family). You don't hear of horses killing people very often, let alone in this manner.

 

 

 

 

 

RIP little one.

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If it was a dog, whichever breed would be banned or come under some kind of media shit storm :thumbdown: Although because it is a horse, it will be dealt with rationally as a freak accident/event that it was. Why would you let an 18-month child that close to a horse in a paddock though? Don't trust horses, that's my message

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Aye always makes you wonder why people do these things. Even if the horse had just got spooked and a bit jumpy, it would still put a child that age / size at risk in an enclosed paddock. Mind you having said that, quite rare i'd say that a horse expressed its anger like that.

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Mine has never bitten before shes not a nasty horse thank god as shes 17.1hh. I was mucking her out with just a vest top on she was nuzzeling my arm then all of a sudden she grabbed me and it didnt tickle. Im putting it down to the bare skin I supose think she thought she could eat me lol if it had been a child it could of been a broken arm or worse like the 18mth old.

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