People dig a half-mile trench to rescue two abandoned horses.

[icarus]

I've been keeping this link open.



People dig a half-mile trench to rescue two abandoned horses.

Now that's Christmas. The family didn't even have time to put up a tree, and didn't care. The horses are alive and well.

Comments

[tjstein.livejournal.com]

That's heartwarming and cheered me up after reading about the girl who died in the cold after her dad made her walk several miles (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081230/ap_on_re_us/hypothermia_death;_ylt=Aqjr02ZtC3rtWReuJlu1_7lvzwcF).

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Oh, I deliberately avoided reading that one.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

I can't condemn him. It was stupidity on his part. He was thinking of them as adults.

[angiepen.livejournal.com]

OMG! What was that idiot thinking?? Sending his kids to walk ten miles in below-freezing weather, and didn't even go after them when he got the truck out?? Sending his daughter out in pajama pants?? O_O If I were the mother I'd be going after him with a baseball bat!

Angie

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

He was imagining that little kids could do what he could do, not putting himself in their shoes -- and probably pissed off and impatient about the car so he's not even paying attention. (I share your disbelief he didn't go after them in the truck.)

But I've seen it before with parents taking their kids backpacking. Too ambitious and unrealistic about what a kid can do. There they are on this steep, tree-root covered trail, and for the kid it might as well be deadfall. Redwood deadfall. The kid's flagging and miserable, but they're more than halfway to the lake or whatever -- so the parents don't turn back.

So they keep going. And don't realize that the kid's not going to conserve his energy at the lake. Hell no. Kids don't plan ahead.

The kid's a hurting unit on the way back. They're under pressure from it getting lake, they're all exhausted, and it's too steep for the parents to safely carry him except for certain stretches.

People should only bring kids along short, well-maintained trails. It doesn't matter if it's a "freeway" and you don't get a true outdoors experience.

[malnpudl.livejournal.com]

Wow. That's a wonderful story, and does my heart a world of good. Thanks for the link.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

You're welcome. I kept it open for days and kept returning to it, happily.

[tingler.livejournal.com]

Man, I'm all teared up now! ::snif:: Poor babies.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

They're safe and sound. In a heated barn. With a vet looking after them.

[sasha-feather.livejournal.com]

Awesome! Thanks for sharing!

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

I've been smiling about these people for three days. I'll take that kind of Christmas.

[angiepen.livejournal.com]

That's a great story! I'm glad they got them out okay, and I hope the universe wreaks appropriate vengeance on the jerkwad hunter who left them there.

Angie

[psycho-tabby.livejournal.com]

nice story!

[birggitt.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes! This is the kind of news that warms my heart :)
Thanks a lot for this!