Re: Hunter abandons horses

Suddenly, without warning, Laurel Reddick exclaimed (12/23/2008 8:15 PM):
I've been following this story for a couple of days. They showed
pictures of the tunnel on the news last night. It is about 2 feet
wide and six feet high. The horses are covered with rain rot and it
is infected. Sounds like euthanizing may be the only way to go as
another storm is coming in.
Laurel

Rescuers try to dig 2-km snow trench to save starving horses
But they're only a tenth of the way there, and a major storm is coming
By Jamie HallDecember 23, 2008


A handful of volunteers continued their frantic efforts Monday to dig
out two starving horses near McBride, thought to have been left behind
by an Edmonton hunter.

The horses were first spotted by snowmobilers about a week ago in the
Renshaw snowmobiling area near McBride, a mountain town about 200
kilometres southeast of Prince George.

Trapped in a valley of snow more than two metres deep, the horses were
skinny, frostbitten and missing large patches of hair because of rain
scald, a bacterial skin infection often caused by a lack of shelter.


Are they sure they were abandoned? Worked at a ranch at the base of the Rocky Mountains long, long ago where the owner told a tale of two equine escapees that got in a similar predicament - worked their way up into the mountains into a nice, green, valley, then got seriously snowed into said valley - they ended up rescuing the two with a helicopter (I think the search was conducted from a small plane).

Of course this was on a morning when I was being sent out to find three horses - two of which were the stars in the bosses' tale. Indeed, they were in a little hidden valley, fortunately no snow!

jmc
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