Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1890 — BITING ITS OWN LEGS. [ARTICLE]

BITING ITS OWN LEGS.

The Utd Antics of a Horse That Had the Hydrophobia. Bill King, of Fairburn, has a horse that has hyorophobia, from all appearances, says the Atlanta Constitution. The horse at intervals has spasms or paroxysms. It bites its own legs and feet and breast. It is terrible to behold how it fastens its teeth in its own flesh and tears the skin and flesh from its bones. King says the horse bit him on the arm yesterday, but he did not think anything about it until his horse became unmanageable and he tied around his neck a rope and tied the rope to a tree in Ills lot. The horse would catch his leg in his mouth and bite and pull it until he threw himself on the ground, then he would turn and wallow on the ground for some time, then he would get quiet, gently get up and stand Btp.ll awhile. In a few minutes he would commence his antics again, and bite the tree near him, then the rope, and then he would bite his breast and pull the flesh off in strips; then he would catch his legs and pull and bite the skin off in strips; then he would catch his leg in his mouth and pull and jerk until he would fall to the ground. Every one was afraid to go near him. Some suggested bleeding, but no one was found who would undertake the job. Bystanders suggested that the horse be shot and put him out of so much suffering and pain. The last seen of Mr. King he was hunting for some one to shoot his horse.