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When asked to repair a tire on a livestock trailer Tuesday, Greg Fett noticed a sickly looking horse being trampled by other malnourished horses, authorities said.

He told his crew to take their time fixing the tire because he wanted time to call the Texarkana, Ark., police and report a trailer full of malnourished horses.

Fett, the store manager of GCR Tire on North State Line Avenue, was still at the shop when a Chevrolet truck towing a 22-foot livestock trailer came to the business needing a new tire.

“It was pure animal cruelty,” he said.

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