Starving Horses Spared Certain Death

Dec 28, 2008 2 Comments by

It was just a week before Christmas when two starving horses were discovered in the rugged mountains of the B.C. Interior – hip bones protruding, backs blanketed in ice, weakened bodies teetering between life and death.

Logan Jeck, 21, came upon the pair while retrieving two tourists’ snowmobiles in the snow-covered terrain. He went home and told his father, David.

David Jeck, a horse owner, sent his daughter back the next day with two things: a .44 Magnum rifle and a bale of hay.

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2 Responses to “Starving Horses Spared Certain Death”

  1. doreen says:

    This is an incredible story about human compassion. Those people should get an award for spending a week digging out those poor horses. As for the other guy ARRRRRRRRR. Yes, it would have been the proper thing to do to report them missing. Then do whatever it takes to not leave them there, to slowly starve to death.

  2. Wendy says:

    What a disgrace! This guy should be left on a mountain to fend for himself. I love horses and it just makes me sick to see something like this happen to such beautiful animals.

    Hats off to the people that dug them out, great job!!!!

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