Warning - cutting tails

I just received an email from a friend that lives in the View area and I wanted to pass on the information -

Thought I would put the word out that there are people in the area that are cutting the hair off horse tails. They came through our place Friday night and cut 4 horses. From the nub down the hair is gone. This is the worst time of year for them to be with out there tails. Their natural fly swaters are gone for many months. I don't know if anyone else has had this happen but I wanted to make people aware

If anyone has more information, let us know.