Pit Bulls' Deadly Attack On Miniature Pony Has Town Residents In Fear

Two dogs viciously attacked two miniature ponies in a New Trenton barn on Monday.

Rick Kaiser with his miniature ponies after they were attacked by two vicious dogs on Monday, September 24. Photo courtesy Tracey Kaiser.

(New Trenton, Ind.) – Residents in New Trenton are on-edge after two dogs killed a miniature pony.

Those vicious dogs are still at-large after the Monday attack inside a barn belonging to Rick and Tracey Kaiser.

“They killed a pony. They could kill a lot of other stuff,” Rick says.

Rick believes the attack happened sometime Monday at their farm just off U.S. 52. That evening, he walked into his barn to check on the couple’s two ponies, Sweet Pea and Freddy. When he opened the door to the stall, two dogs ran out and ran off.

Sweet Pea was found on the hay-covered floor of the stall dead of an apparent dog attack. Freddy was wounded.

Rick ran to his home to retrieve his gun. By the time he returned with it, the dogs had vanished.

The dogs, Rick says, were obviously pit bulls. One was a white and tan male. The other was a black female.

“We don’t know where they came from. They could still be loose today,” Rick says.

Members of the New Trenton Fire Department and Franklin County Sheriff’s Department spent much of the rest of the day and evening scouring the surrounding area for the attacking dogs. Franklin County Animal Control assistant dog catcher Ray Halpin also responded to the Kaiser’s farm. What he observed substantiated the couple’s claims of a dog attack.

Also, Sweet Pea was not the only animal to fall victim to a dog attack in New Trenton that day. A cat was also found dead in a neighbor’s yard, Halpin said.

New Trenton resident Christeen Mathews says she observed a man in a black dually truck with a wagon attached ditch the dogs in town Monday afternoon. The driver left heading toward Brookville. She saw the dogs running along U.S. 52.

Halpin is urging people with information or who may spot the vicious dogs to come forward with information. Contact the Franklin County Sheriff’s Department at (765) 647-4138 or Franklin County Animal Control at (765) 207-0055.

Halpin wants to find the dogs before another animal, or perhaps a human, becomes a victim.

“With dogs like that, you don’t know what they might do,” he says.