While their probe into a series of horse poaching incidents continues, the Miami-Dade County Police are asking horse owners to do their part to keep their animals safe.

At least 17 horses have been stolen and apparently butchered for their meat in Miami-Dade County since January.

Members of several Miami-Dade County Police units and investigators from Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services and the USDA are probing the incidents. Police in nearby Miramar Fla., are also investigating the deaths of two horses found butchered in their pasture there in May

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