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- HORSE.TXT - Horse Mutilation in Saskatoon -OCT/89
- - Article from "The Winnipeg Sun"
- - Date: Sunday, October 29, 1989
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- DID SATANIC CULT KILL HORSE?
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- SASKATOON (CP) - A Saskatchewan farmer suspects a satanic cult killed his
- horse and surgically removed its sex organs.
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- Eugene Zagrodney, 38, of the Rose Valley area, said he found the family's pet
- gelding lying in a field Wednesday about 60 metres from his farmhouse.
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- It had an incision from the navel to the hind legs and its sex organs were
- gone.
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- "I suspected cults," he said Friday. "I've talked to somebody who knows
- about these cults and he said they probably mistook it for a stallion and when
- they found out it had no testicles it was abandoned.
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- "The wounds were perfectly clean, there was no jagged edges," the farmer
- said. "I used to work in a slaughterhouse and I've done my own slaughtering,
- and it had to be a sharp butcher knife or a scalpel."
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- Nick Nation, head of veterinary pathology for the Alberta Agricultural
- Department, said coyotes are more likely to blame.
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- In a recently published article in the Canadian Veterinary" Journal", Nation
- compared media reports of mysterious wounds on mutilated cattle with those
- known to have been caused by scavengers and finds them to be similar.
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