Corolla Wild Horse shooting reward now $12,000
Published November 21, 2007 by adminSome news strikes deep in a community, and this is one of those news items.
Another of Corolla’s wild horses has been found shot and killed in the 4-Wheel Drive area of Currituck County’s northern Outer Banks.
In hopes of gathering information that might lead to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for such reprehensible actions, The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), together with the Corolla Wild Horse Fund, has upped the reward for anyone with knowledge of the recent or any previous wild horse shootings.
The first known shooting occurred in 2001 when FIVE wild horses were shot and killed in ONE day.
The reward is now $12,000, raised with help from the HSUS from the standing $9,500 reward maintained by the Corolla Wild Horse Fund. Says Karen McCalpin, director of the fund, these are “acts of cruelty that should never be forgotten or devalued” thus the standing reward for information.
Listed by the American Livestock Breed Conservancy as a threatened breed, the horses are registered Colonial Spanish Mustangs and the present count of 92 horses are descendants of animals brought here by Spanish explorers in the 1500’s, and are an integral part of the Outer Banks.
The 4WD section of Corolla encompasses about 12,000 acres of both public and private land. The horses’ only protection within this sanctuary are Currituck County ordinances against harming or disturbing them.
The Currituck County Sheriff’s Department should be called with any information that could lead to finding out what sick person or persons are responsible for such activity. It is not known whether any of the shootings are related.
But someone out there must know something! Contact the Sheriff’s Dept. at (252) 453-2121 if you know anything that could be useful to the investigation.
For more information about the local HSUS involvement, call Ann Church at (252) 646-5700 or go to www.humanesociety.org.
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