The Jackson Citizen Patriot reports that a second horse in Jackson County has been attacked by some mysterious predator.  Excerpt and link:

A registered paint mare, 4-year-old Rags, was injured Tuesday morning in its pasture on Peacock Road south of Leslie. The horse had more than two dozen scratches on its hide but no wounds deep enough to require stitches.

“I’m not saying it was a cougar, but something got my horse,” Danielle Ford said Friday morning as she fed Rags, one of seven horses on the farm.

The horse was wounded between 7 and 9 a.m., after Ford’s daughters fed the horses. Rags shares her small paddock with a smaller mare.

“When I went outside, the two horses stood in the corner in shock,” she said.

A state Department of Natural Resources wildlife biologist and Patrick Rusz of the Michigan Wildlife Conservancy examined the horse. Its wounds were treated by Dr. Robert Sray.

Sray and Rusz said Friday they could not determine what caused the marks on Rags.

“I am assuming some sort of animal jumped on her,” Sray said.

The DNR had not issued its opinion on the injuries to Rags. DNR experts earlier this week said a horse earlier injured on Henry Road, seven miles west of Ford’s farm, was not attacked by a cougar.

Rusz disagreed. “That was a cougar attack,” he said.

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http://www.mlive.com/news/citpat/index.ssf?/base/news-26/122190511774700.xml&coll=3

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