In a press release "More strange than funny" Habitat for Horses reports on horses involved with water accidents in the news these past 6 months. Not just troughs and cisterns, but horses falling into pools, wells, sinkholes and creeks. The bottom line is â Dear Horse, please keep out of the water! Which means we have to find ways to protect them from falling in pools, creeks, cisterns and even their own troughs.
Accidents do happen!
The bottom line is â Dear Horse, please keep out of the water! Which means we have to find ways to protect them from falling in pools, creeks, cisterns and even their own troughs.
Sacramento firefighters had to rescue horse stuck in a bathtub in Orangevale. The horse, called Phantom, was dancing around in her stall just after 9:30 a.m., protecting her food trough which is a bathtub when she suddenly fell in.
In Filer, Idaho, a 25-year-old horse named Bitty had to be rescued after falling into a cistern. The Twin Falls County Sheriffâs Deputy Kelly Wilson reported that the owner found the missing mare at 1 a.m. Sunday standing in 4 feet of cold water in the below-ground cistern.
One of the cement slabs covering the 8-foot-deep cistern in south-central Idaho gave way when Bitty walked on it. The Salmon Track Fire Department responded and pumped out the water and then built a ramp using dirt and concrete allowing Bitty to walk out of the cistern.
In another news story, back in December, a horse had to be rescued from a sinkhole in Oxford, Fla. The horse had been put out to pasture and had to be rescued when the sinkhole opened up, trapping him. Nate, a 30-year-old horse, was stuck in the hole for about three hours before personnel from the fire department in Oxford, Florida, arrived to put straps and harnesses around him and haul him out.