The Corolla Wild Horse Fund (CWHF) came to the rescue of a wild mare on Friday morning. The best news – the ladder is no longer around the mare’s neck, and she and her foal are doing fine; and life for them is back to normal.
A call had been received at 10:30 in the morning about the situation. Three staff members had been close by and found the mare immediately. Several local residents had also called for help. Initially it had been thought if she dropped her head down towards the ground, the ladder would have just slid off, but each time she tried to dislodge the ladder herself, it would hit the back of her ears, and instinctively she would fling her head back up.
Ironically, she seemed less bothered by the ladder than the humans did, which precluded her from panicking. According to the volunteers at the CWHF, one of the breed’s characteristics is how calm and non reactionary they are.
And in for the rescue: (luck happened too)
We spent about an hour trying to get her into a position where we could get close enough to pull it off but didn’t have any luck with that plan – she was too fast and there is just too much wide open space (this was one of the few times when that is a bad thing!). But we got lucky when she dropped her head to graze at one point and the ladder slipped down over one ear. We all held our breath and thank goodness it fell the rest of the way off.
Please make sure to reassure everyone who has seen the photos of the horse and the ladder attached, that she is free of the ladder and she and her foal are doing fine.
Many thanks to the community for helping. They were all ready to join in and do whatever was needed to make sure this horse was safe.
Meg Puckett, manages the herd for the nonprofit fund, and later recapped the mare was more annoyed at the people coming too close to her than the ladder being caught around her neck.
If you witness a horse in danger or distress please call 252-453-3633. They will immediately notify CWHF and can also dispatch law enforcement if necessary. There are about 100 wild mustangs in the Corolla herd on the Outer Banks, North Carolina, and they are tended by the nonprofit Corolla Wild Horse Fund which uses donations to protect the horses and tend to their medical needs.
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