Two horses trapped in the harsh winter snows of interior British Columbia since September were freed on Christmas Eve. It took more than a week for a large group of volunteers to dig out the horses, but the mare and gelding are expected to live.


The first article on the attempted rescue of these horses can be found in TheHorse.com article “Group Effort to Rescue Horses Trapped in Snow Ongoing.”


In the Dec. 26 edition of the theglobeandmail.com, there is a long article on the entire saga, from the discovery of the horses by a 21-year-old resident who was looking for two snowmobiles, to the orders of the young man’s father–a horse owner–to his daughter to go back into the mountains and either shoot the horses to put them out of their misery or feed them a bale of hay, to the outpouring of asssitance by a large number of people who ended up digging a road through the snow to rescue the trapped horses.


And in between there were people and professionals who cared for the emaciated horses–sometimes braving temperatures that dropped to 40 degrees below zero

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