Summarize and humanize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in EnglishA Nevada veterinarian who disappeared days after a clip of him abusing a horse went viral has vanished and is feared to have drowned.Authorities are currently searching the waters of Lake Mead for Dr Shawn Frehner, 8News Now reports.Frehner was filmed kicking a horse named Red in the head as he tried to administer anesthetic shots to the animal on Thursday.The distressing attack was caught on camera by Red’s owner Shawna Gonzalez, who runs a rescue center in Pahrump.She contacted Nye County Animal Control which referred her to the local sheriff’s office where she filed a complaint.Frehner took to Facebook to post an apology video over the weekend, which appears to have since disappeared along with the veterinarian.Multiple agencies are now searching the Lake Mead National Recreation Area for any sign of him.’It’s horrible, I never, ever wished this upon him, I never wished this upon anybody’ Gonzalez said. ‘This is not what I wanted in the end at all.’ Dr Shawn Frehner has disappeared after video of him kicking a horse at a Nevada rescue center went viral The veterinarian was caught attacking the animal during a visit on Thursday She explained that her daughter began recording Frehner after being concerned by how tightly he appeared to have wound a rope around her colt’s neck.’I heard [my mother] yell, ‘Oh my God. He just kicked him’,’ Gonzalez said.’He wrapped the horse around his neck three times, and he kicked him in the head.’I had started having a severe anxiety attack and couldn’t breathe myself.’I was already on the ground, and my daughter picked up the phone and hit record, and that’s when she got him on videotape, kicking him.’The animal was left with abrasions to the skull and taken to Desert Pines Equine Center.'[Frehner] left my property before my horse was even up,’ Gonzalez added. ‘My horse was still down for a good 45 minutes after he left and before he left, there’s several people that were there, and even they can state that he was kind of in a rush off my property.’ In his apology, Frehner reportedly stated that the video did not provide the full context. Frehner apologized but admitted that he kicked the horse in the chin’I did not blatantly haul off and kick this horse as it appears in the video. That was not my intention at all,’ Frehner wrote, News8 Now reports. ‘It was done simply to get the horse in a better position so that he could breathe and get up and move so I could again try to anesthetize.”But yes I did kick him right in the chin and I very much do apologize and wish this never happened,’ he wrote. Search teams were dispatched to the lake on Monday and plan to continue searching today.It is unclear if officials think Frehner met an accident or if he may have taken his own life. Gonzalez said that she had been using Frehner’s services since last August.She revealed that the vet bills for Red are likely to run into the thousands and requested donations to Desert Pine Rescue Center.’The abuse and cruelty my horse suffered on 4/3/2025 was inhumane, disgusting, appalling, and the most hurtful thing and from the hands of vet that I trusted and Red trusted,’ she wrote shortly after the incident.Frehner’s website states he received his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine-DVM degree from Ohio State University in 1997 and began his equine business the year after. Red was left with abrasions to his skull and sent for treatment at Desert Pines Equine Center Authorities are now searching the Lake Mead Recreation Area, sources confirmed to News8 NowHe claims he, ‘provides state-of-the-art medical care for your four-legged companions’. ‘He believes in nurturing the human-animal bond and creating a harmonious relationship between people and animals,’ according to the site.
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