A lightning strike in a Lawrence County pasture killed four miniature horses over this past weekend. Acording to reports, the owners were eating when they saw a lightening strike in the pasture and their power went out.
Thunder storms with lightning - Deadly to horses
Spring and summer thunder and lighting storms during 2015 are taking their toll in horse fatalities.
© 2015 by Bidgee
After the lightning strike, witnesses reported seeing smoke and the horses lying in the pasture. Some were show horses and some were pets, WLBT reported. One horse was injured but a foal was spared. The total value of the horses that were killed was estimated at around $8,000.
The deaths of these miniature horses follow the deaths of several other horses from lightning strikes. In Missouri, on June 25, 2015, a man and two horses died after being struck by lightning.
As of July 1, 2015, workers and volunteers with a therapeutic horse riding center in Salisbury, North Carolina, were mourning the loss of three horses killed when lightning struck a tree under which they were standing.
Back on June 12, 2015, three horses were killed and one horse was injured when a lightning strike or a falling tree that was struck, hit them during a storm.