Woman, 82, told child to stop teasing a park goose, was shoved to ground by father.

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166. in this one case it was geese

but I've witnessed and stepped in when it was tiny ducklings being pelted with rocks by a snotnose whose father very nearly came after me (until he noticed my big black dog with big white teeth smiling up at him) and a squirrel being chased in a car by teens.

And I know of a filly that had her tail doused in fingernail polish remover and lit up by a vile, despicable hateful teenaged I won't write the word I want to use or I'll be banned. She had to have it amputated -- a horse's tail is not just a pretty ornament. It is their main protection from flies, and she will not have that protection for the rest of her life.

And I know of another filly that was beaten in the head with a golf club until it broke, and then stabbed with the broken club. Her breeder and owner found her dead in a bloodbath the next morning when she went to feed. That was by a college teen who had trespassed on her property in the past and been "humiliated" when the filly's mother protected her from him. He came back later for "revenge" against the horses.