Outrage After Man Catches the Moment His Horses Are Abused on Camera

Sean and Dana Pietsch of Desert Foothills, Arizona, have put out a plea for help identifying two men who trespassed, vandalized property, and — worst of all — committed animal abuse.

The couple has two horses, both in their later years, both victims of an attack that took place Thursday.

Shortly after midnight, two males approached the older horse, 30-year-old Indy, and began to punch him and throw river rocks from a nearby wash at him. Put up in his stall for the night, Indy was unable to escape and paced frantically as they continued their onslaught.

At some point, their other horse, a 25-year-old palomino, came near to check on Indy, and then she was attacked too.

Sean said he feels horrible that they had no idea this was happening while they were in their home, just a few hundred feet away.

“I almost felt guilty that I was 200 feet away and didn’t know and didn’t stop it,” he told KNXV-TV.

The Pietsches first realized something was wrong the next day when there was a rock inexplicably taking up residence in Indy’s stall.

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“We saw a river rock in his pen,” Sean said. “So we checked the security cameras and that’s when we discovered two individuals had come into the yard at 1 a.m. and were in here for about 30 minutes straight — assaulting the horses, throwing river rocks at them, punching them. All kinds of horrible, horrible things.”