A sturdy pony has been credited with helping caretakers attend to animals stranded in a recent Virginia snowstorm. Half a dozen donkeys and llamas were stranded in a lower shed at Leesburg Animal Park, Leesburg Today reported. The animals had hay but no water. Staff members tried to use a tractor to reach them, but the machine became stuck in deep drifts of snow. Resigned, they started slowly digging...
It's that time again! Show off your syllabic subjugation skills with a new round of horsey haiku. Our subject: winter stable management. (To review, haiku lines go in patterns of 5/7/5 syllables. Stanza breaks don't display well in comments, so I suggest inserting a short line of hyphens ----- to indicate a new grouping.) There's a cycle to Kentucky's January Mud ice mud ice mud Tundra pastures are...
Behind a blockade through which only humanitarian and basic supplies are allowed, Gaza's Happy Land Zoo gets creative when it comes to introducing new animals to the community's children. "The zebras are locally manufactured," Zoo Director Mahmud Barghut told AFP . "We take a donkey and draw stripes on it." He said the process requires two days, masking tape, and French...
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...
Earlier this month we reported on a sad incident on a French beach in which a horse and rider fell into decomposing green algae. Toxic gasses produced by the seaweed killed the horse almost immediately, while the rider was pulled to safety, narrowly avoiding the same fate. Read the story . At right, a photo of the horse, Sir Glitter, provided by his owner/rider. Now an Associated Press report is adding...
