Late on Sunday night (at around 22:30pm) we received a message from a member of the public who had seen a Dartmoor Hill Pony foal get hit by a car near Pork Hill on the main road between Tavistock and Princetown. The foal had been hit much earlier in the evening and had a badly injured leg. We were told that members of the public had stayed with the foal for 4 hours in an effort to get the Commoners or someone in authority to attend the foal and get it treated or removed. Unhappy with what had happened, and as equine owners themselves knowing the seriousness of the injury, the person had decided to contact us.
Our Welfare Officer attended the moor the following morning and found the foal and its herd. The course of events over the next two days in relation to the foal were so serious that we are asking Trading Standards (who can bring prosecutions under the Animal Welfare Act) to take this forward as a prosecution case. For that reason, we will not be publishing any more details, photos, video or other evidence of this case at the current time.
SWEP worked in partership with vets and the authorities to get a resolution for this foal under the Animal Welfare Act.
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