Foal attacked and eaten: “Only a foreleg has been found” Inland

On the night of Monday and Tuesday things went horribly wrong with foal Olav who was in the meadow with his mother Gijsje. “Tuesday morning Olav was gone,” Van Oosterhout tells Omroep Brabant. “Only the front leg has been found, plus some loose bones. The rest was gone. The news came in when they called me. I slept badly. “

“We are powerless to allow the wolves in the Netherlands to go about without being heard anywhere. Last night our Olav foal van Gijsje was “killed” and eaten “, writes an angry van Oosterhout on his Facebook page.

According to Van Oosterhout, the stable owners went to have a look at night. They would have seen a wolf at a pasture with cows in the area.

“Shetland foals are small. Olav was about 50 centimeters high and weighed 10 kilos, “says Oosterhout. An easy prey for a wolf. And of course the mare is also very stressed, she was also hunted and saw it happen. ”

In Brabant, several animals have recently been bitten to death by wolves. Usually it concerns sheep.

“Nonsense, not wolf work”

“It is utter nonsense to say that this was done by a wolf,” says wolf expert Glenn Lelieveld van Wolven in the Netherlands. According to him, the wolf cannot be blamed. “A wolf is very efficient and only gets what he needs. A wolf would never eat a complete spine and head. ”

According to Lelieveld, there should be “a lot” of the foal left if the wolf had attacked Olav.

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