The arrest is rooted in a tip delivered to the PSPCA on Aug. 30 last year, when someone contacted its cruelty hotline regarding a limping horse, with a possible dislocated leg, at a Quarryville property.
In responding to the complaint, officers found an underweight horse with a bent ankle that had extreme difficulty walking. She was living in an overgrown pasture. The horse was relying on her back legs to hobble forward.
Fisher said he didn't seek veterinary care for the horse after it was hit by a car early last year, according to the media release.
“The suffering of the beautiful animal involved in this case is heartbreaking,” said Nicole Wilson, director of Humane Law Enforcement & Shelter Operations at the Pennsylvania SPCA. “For months, instead of providing veterinary care or euthanizing the filly to ease her pain, her owner forced her to suffer in silence."