Posted: 01.05.2011

A preliminary report from the University of
Wisconsin-Madison veterinary lab says the death of a horse in
Deerfield last month probably was not caused by an animal attack.

Brooklyn veterinarian Rene Reynolds cared for the 4-year-old
palomino called Phoebe at Freedom Stables. Reynolds said Tuesday
that a vet from the Veterinary Diagnostic Lab told him it was
unlikely that the severe gash in the horse's neck was caused by a
cougar, as stable owners suggest.

But Ted Schlueter, who co-owns the stables, criticized the state
investigators who walked the property looking for evidence last
week.

Schlueter tells the Wisconsin State Journal that the
investigators ``couldn't even agree what a cougar track should look
like.''

A DNR spokesman says wardens who searched the pasture found no
evidence of an animal attack.

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