LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A Las Vegas veterinarian is lacking following a viral video that exhibits him kicking a horse’s head.
On Thursday, Dr. Shawn Frehner was paid to manage anesthetic pictures for some horses at a Pahrump property. Shawna Gonzalez, the property proprietor, stated she had used Frehner’s providers since August 2024 however was shocked at what she heard as she walked again from the rooster coop.
“I heard [my mother] yell, ‘Oh my God. He just kicked him,’” Gonzalez stated.
Gonzalez ran to her mom’s window and appeared out however didn’t see something however the younger colt struggling to breathe.
“Oh my god, Mom, he’s choking,” she stated. “He wrapped the horse around his neck three times, and he kicked him in the head.”
Inside seconds Gonzalez witnessed Frehner kick the horse within the head, leaving an abrasion—Gonzalez fell to the bottom.
Gonzalez witnessed Frehner kick the horse within the head, leaving an abrasion—Gonzalez fell to the bottom. (Courtesy Shawna Gonzalez)
Gonzalez witnessed Frehner kick the horse within the head, leaving an abrasion—Gonzalez fell to the bottom. (Courtesy Shawna Gonzalez)
“I had started having a severe anxiety attack and couldn’t breathe myself,” she stated. “I was already on the ground, and my daughter picked up the phone and hit record, and that’s when she got him on videotape, kicking him.”
The property, which capabilities additionally as a rescue, has round 10 horses and different cattle, in response to Gonzalez. A few of the horses got here from a reservation in Arizona.
“The opportunity came upon us that we could rescue baby horses,” she stated. “We made sure we had a doctor in line, a trainer in line, a farrier in line, everybody we needed to have in line to care for these horses.”
Gonzalez stated the injured horse was taken to the Desert Pines Equine Heart, struggling abrasions to the cranium and pointless accidents from the gelding.
“[Frehner] left my property before my horse was even up,” she stated. “My horse was still down for a good 45 minutes after he left and before he left, there’s several people that were there, and even they can state that he was kind of in a rush off my property.”
The following day Gonzalez reached out to the Nye County Animal Management which referred her to the Nye County Sheriff’s Workplace. She filed prices in opposition to Frehner for animal cruelty. Nye County has not but confirmed the standing of the costs.
Over the weekend the video of Frehner kicking the horse was extensively shared on-line. This spurred a put up from Frehner.
“I did not blatantly haul off and kick this horse as it appears in the video. That was not my intention at all,” Frehner wrote. “It was done simply to get the horse in a better position so that he could breathe and get up and move so I could again try to anesthetize.”
Frehner did finish the put up with an apology and admitted to kicking the horse.
“However sure I did kick him proper within the chin and I very a lot do apologize and need this by no means occurred,” he wrote.
Lacking individual
A number of businesses in Nevada began trying to find a lacking individual throughout the Lake Mead Nationwide Recreation Space this morning. Sources informed the 8 Information Now Investigators crews had been trying to find Shawn David Frehner.
A number of businesses in Nevada had been trying to find a lacking individual throughout the Lake Mead Nationwide Recreation Space on Monday. (KLAS)
The trouble concerned aerial, marine, and floor assets, the discharge acknowledged. The discharge didn’t verify the identification of the lacking individual, nor did they are saying when and the place the individual was final seen.
The Nationwide Park Service, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Division, and Crimson Rock Search and Rescue volunteers had been “actively” trying to find the lacking particular person, NPS stated in a launch. Crews informed 8 Information Now they had been concluding the bottom search Monday afternoon and would begin once more Tuesday morning.
