A horse believed to be stolen from his Georgia pasture was found alive in a nearby ditch three weeks after going missing, reported television station WALB News . A cell phone video shows Sheyenne being lifted from the five-foot ditch in a cotton field about a mile from his owners' farm. He's lost about half of his 1,200 pounds, but a veterinarian who examined him said he's likely to recover from his...
Five days after she went missing, Houston mare Miss B turned up at a bus stop, The Houston Chronicle reported . Her owners' friend alerted the family when she saw the mare tied to a metro sign on Tuesday about a half-mile from home. The neighborhood search for Miss B began last Thursday, when the mare, spooked by thunder, bolted from her shed. With neighbors on the lookout, no one's sure where...
Eddie, a 9-year-old gray Arabian gelding from Powell, Wyo., survived a wild ride last week after the trail beneath him collapsed, sending him through water gates and into a 3.3-mile-long irrigation tunnel, the Powell Tribune reported. District irrigation manager Bryant Startin told the paper it would have taken the horse about 45 minutes to pass through the tunnel. While Eddie would have had about...
They say good fences make good neighbors—so something tells me the fences (at least those bordering one mule's pasture) aren't so great in Hulbert, Okla. According to a report in the Tahlequah Daily Press , a mule there is causing a ruckus through its attempted advances toward local riding horses. Police answered a call about the animal last month, when it ran across a field and jumped fences...
Virginia State Police are searching for a 13-year-old boy who appears to have run away from home. But he didn't go alone--Wyatt McLaughlin took a pickup truck and four-horse trailer, two horses, and the family dog. According to the Richmond Times-Dispatch , Wyatt went missing from his home between 9 and 10 a.m. Wednesday. Investigators believe he loaded the trailer with the horses, food, extra...
