Jäger accidentally shoots pony: family in mourning!

Jäger accidentally shoots pony: family in mourning!

In a tragic incident in Schwertfegen near Neulengbach, a pony was wrongly shot by a 21-year-old hunter on December 26 who actually had wild boar in sight. The young man used a allowed night vision device and noticed too late that instead of a wild boar, the animal family member of the Sipos family was standing on the paddock. The owner of the pony, Sabine Sipos, who spent life together with her husband, a veterinarian, who was pony, expressed her incomprehension about the incident: "We cannot explain it," she told Today.at .

The reaction of the St. Pölten public prosecutor's office was clear: "apart from an initiation of an investigation" because there was no criminal offense - the hunter wanted to kill a wild animal. However, this has not reduced the grief of the Sipos family. "Bichette was a family member," said Sabine Sipos. Their twin boy who grew up with the pony are particularly affected because they have learned to ride with him. The family now checks whether they can obtain a ban on hunting in their surroundings to prevent future incidents of this kind, reported nön.at .

How the Situation develops remains to be seen, but the Sipos family is disappointed and deeply affected by the events. Despite the stroke of fate, they do not generally want to talk negatively about the hunters and hope that such incidents will not be repeated.