Horse rescue
Whether it’s being dug out of sink hole, cut out of the living area of a horsebox or lifted out of a swimming pool, from time to time the emergency services are called into action to help with horse rescues from some of the most unexpected places…
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Young horse battered with pole to ‘teach her a lesson’ is helping children in new home
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‘The neglect was just too much’: foal born to rescued mare only lives 24 hours
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Horse beaten and kicked after road collapse is ‘part of the family’ in new loving home
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‘I thought my heart would burst’: horse left to die on roadside stuns on show debut
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Casper the dressage horse spooked by cows falls into ditch eight feet deep
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‘A pitiful sight’: terrified, malnourished and pregnant ponies abandoned
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Firefighters’ fence warning after horse rescued from canal
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Firefighters cut horse free from gate in back of horsebox
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Horse survived three weeks under rubble after devastating earthquake demolished owner’s house
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Heartbreak as fight to save foal of ‘horrifically' neglected mare is finally lost
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Emaciated and injured foal found collapsed upside-down among tyres and rubble
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Meet Tintin – the foal rescued with two cans stuck on his foot
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Fire crew called to ‘horse’ stranded in flood find not entirely what was expected...
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‘He disappeared from view’: excavator used to dig 27-year-old pony out from sinkhole
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Mare escapes ‘without a scratch’ after trees felled by Storm Eunice miss ‘by inches’
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Firefighters save heavily pregnant mare whose leg went through horsebox wall
“The drivers had pulled over and undid the partition, and the horse had fallen over on to her side, and she was stuck”
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Mare found floundering in deep river after trespassers leave field gate open
“I’d rather have the vet bill and have my horse but it was unnecessary, and wouldn’t have happened without mindless people”
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Injured brood mare flown to hospital in helicopter harness
“When I saw her being lifted, I thought ‘oh gosh’, but she was perfectly calm. It was hard to watch but they were so professional”
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Rugs ‘probably saved life’ of cob trapped neck-deep in bog
‘The vet checked the horse and miraculously her core temperature was normal as she had been wearing two rugs’
