Weirderst horse save?

Question

i just watched people on TV save a horse that had fallen through an old railroad bridge-the horse was hanging by one of its back legs and suspended over 15" of water..

the horse was fine, she fell but turned on her side.. landed, hurt her ankle and walked out of the water.

but whats the weirderst situation you've ever been in when it comes to saving horses?

- i don't have one, but lets see yours!

Answer 1

A freak thunderstorm hit and the pony I use to lease got spooked and started running in the pasture. He slid and fell under the fence. His legs were sticking out and he was traped on his side. I was going out to get him and saw it all I was able to keep him calm and he was fine. We all thanked our lucky stars because a year before that a filly did the same thing for the same reason and she had to be put down because she broke three of her legs.

http://www.thewindchilllegacy.org/WindCh...

That is the rescue story of Windchill he sadly passed away, lossing his battle

Answer 2

oh yeah i've seen that video before. its so amazing isn't it. well the worst we've seen was when we were coming back from a show. my friend had left about 20 minutes before us and when we were almost home we saw traffic up ahead. it didn't take long for us to see that a trailer had flipped over and as we got closer we saw that it was a horse trailer. that was bad enough but then we realized that it was my friends trailer. somehow the pin to the hitch had come loose ( still can't figure it out, she checked it twice before she left) and the trailer detatched from the truck. the trailer flipped three times on the freeway and crossed the inside land of traffic before landing on its side on the shoulder. they ended up having to cut the horses lead rope because he was basically laying on the ceiling of the trailer with his head still tied and was having a lot of trouble breathing and they had to use the jaws of life to get him out. he was fine aside from some cuts and being really sore for the next couple of days and didn't even have any trouble loading the next time he was trailered. he was so lucky and we've all learned a lot about all that can happen when trailering. thank goodness she was going under the speed limit because that could have been such a tragedy.

Answer 3

Oh my gosh! Was that on aniaml planet? If it was I saw it last night too. Now to answer your question a horse fell through ice into 33 degree and it was pregnant it lived 'cause someone slapped it on the nose and gave it the rush of adrenaline to pull through. Then it fell in again. Both were saved and the other reason the horse lived was because the water wasn't freezing yet. By the time they got it out its was 32 1/2 degrees!

Answer 4

I've been around quite a few but this is the funniest!

In 1981 I managed a TB stalliion named "Whittier Hills" and one night I was lecturing his owner not to let him bully her when it came to mounting a mare.  Told her that if he reared up BEFORE he got close enough to the mare to mount to give a good hard jerk on that stud chain.

We would breed the mares out of sight of other boarders in this fully enclosed round pen (Enclosed with plywood.).

Well we had the mare waiting, I'd put Whit's owner at his head for this lesson and of course, Whit saw the mare, reared and I hollered at his owner, shank him NOW!

She did, he then fell over and got his head STUCK between the plywood and the ground and just layed there.  In the meantime, his owner was screaming "I've killed him!  I've killed him!"  (I could still hear him breathing and really didn't sound distressed.).

I calmed his owner down, got a couple of guys to help us get the plywood undone, got Whit up and outside of being covered with sand on one side, he was FINE.  So, we hosed him off, put him on the hotwalker to dry off, put the round pen back together and about 2 hours after the incident, put the owner back at his head and covered the mare.

Needless to say, Whit listened from then on.

Answer 5

We used to have a young half-arab named Windchill.  He was really goofy and stubborn, but he was beautiful.  He hated any kinda of needles, and it was extremely hard to give him vaccines or shots to help him.  One day he was running through the woods and he ran right past a tree that had a 7 inch stem sticking out of it.  When he hit the stem it went up threw the side of his month up into his jaw then broke off from the tree. About 5 inches had gone up into him while the other 2 was hanging out like a tusk on an elephant.  We called the vet out and led him into the round pen. Since he didnt like shots, then we had a hard time getting a tranquilizer in him.  What he did like was to be scratched on the back, so we turned him around so that his tail was against the rails and the vet began to scratch his back, then when the horse seemed comfortable the vet stuck him with the tranquilizer needle. Windchill sprung forward and started bucking but then settled down and the vet was able to pull the stem out of his face.  He heeled up nicely and it barely left a scar

Answer 6

I used to have a 6 feet by 30 inch deep round galvanized steel water trough and one of my mares liked to wade in it occasionally. And then following her example her young filly foal started doing the same thing except as the foal grew she got to where she started laying down in it. I should have been smart enough to know what was soon going to come of that but it never occurred to me until it happened. I guess I expected the foal was smart enough to stop laying down in it when it started getting cramped and hard to get back up but that didn't happen until one day when she was about 8 months old and finally got stuck laying on her side and just could not get her legs under her to get back up again. She thrashed too bad to get a strap around her and I was afraid she might injure or break a leg thrashing so I had to use the end loader to lift the tank over and roll her out onto the ground. That experience didn't break her from wading in the trough though and so fearing she might lay down in it again I scrapped it and replaced it with an oblong tank.

Answer 7

I was on a trail ride probably 10+ years ago when a little girl and her pony fell off the side of the trail, down an embankment and dropped 6 feet into a shollow creek. The girl (Thank God) fell away from the pony and was alright, but the pony fell upside down and got a rear leg stuck under a big log and the other was stuck over it. The creek was about 2 feet deep, so the pony was struggling to keep his head above water. I jumped off my horse tied him to a tree and scrambled down into the creek. With someone holding his head above water, I pulled his leg around the log and was able to get up on his own no worse for wear.

A couple years later, we found out that the pony was going blind. He probably didn't even see the edge of the trail before he fell. Poor Guy.

Answer 8

Katie - My horse did the stirrup thing while I was on her! She was biting at my toes cuz she likes to do that when she bored, and she got the stirrup stuck on her jaw. She spun in circles and I jumped off. It took her like 3 or 4 minutes before she finally just laid down. We pulled the stirrup off the saddle and freed her, but it was really scary cuz we couldn't do anything to make her stop spinning.

She doesn't chew on feet/stirrups anymore :)

Answer 9

Here's one, a trailer overturned and they had to saw it in half and drag the horse out.  (Don't worry, he was fine.)  I wasn't involved in this, I just found it on YouTube.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=bLcsrf9BZpI&f...

Answer 10

Well mine inst very exiting! But ill say anyway!! I was walking through the horseboxes at a show once and I spotted a horse tied up and it had its leg tangled in its lead rope! Nobody was there looking after it so I quickly unraveled the rope and went. Even though it wasnt a big deal, I was really proud of myself!! he he.

:) x*x

Answer 11

It wasnt savingher life but this one mare at my only barn managed to get her bottom jaw stuck in a western stirrup. I wouldnt have been to bad if the saddle hadnt ben on her back with the girth tighted. Needless to say she paniced and spun in circles a bunch. Somehow they got her jaw out of it. The other was not so much a rescue as a freak accident. An older teenage girl was lunging her horse in ring really early int he morning at the show grounds. Big rule breaker but no one said anything. Well the horse started bucking and pulled her closer to the fence. I guess he was planning on jumping the plactic show fence at an angle (it was only like 3 foot) but as he took off the lunge line pulled him and he landed on the fence. One hind leg was outside the ring while the other three were in. He FLIPPED out and started trying to buck and run. Thankfully he kicked himself loose and was ok but I was definantly scary.

Edit:

Amy: That would have scared me to death. Never again will Prince be allowed to mess with my foot when I am standing around. I never thought of them doing it when you are on.

Answer 12

i had a horse that sat down and got hung under the trailer and her 1 back leg and 1 frot leg got stuck between the tires and 1 on each side so we had to take the tires off and get a crane 2 pick up the trailer 2 get her out

Answer 13

Well I don't know if you would call this a save or not.   I was doing a pack trip in Northern California, and I was on my horse and had 3 pack horses behind me.  We were on a pretty sketchy area of trail at the moment and while my first 2 pack horses made it through safely the trail ended up giving out under the 3rd horse.  The twine snapped that connected him to the other horses (thank goodness or he would have taken them with him) and he ended up falling onto his back and sliding down 75ft of embankment.  He still had his pack boxes on (which I think helped him in the long run) and he was stuck on his back.  He wasn't thrashing thankfully, just kind of wiggling his feet to make sure he was OK I think.  

I had to walk the other horses down the trail to tie them up and when I got back to Scout he was still laying in the same spot.  It was sort of a shale scree rock on the embankment so I had to slide down to him, I cut his boxes off him and put them to the side and then slowly pushed his legs over so they were facing downhill, he got up, shook off, and looked at me like "Crazy day huh, but things turned out alright."

He was no worse for the wear, I grabbed his tail so he could help me up the embankment and we ended up getting the pack boxes later that day with a different horse.