ZitatVANCOUVER — Dozens of skeletal horses are slowly starving to death in the snowy fields of Interior B.C., victims of an uncommonly frigid winter and chilly indifference from the local residents.
Nineteen horses are reported dead and as many as 40 more are lost or lie buried beneath the 60 centimetres of snow that still blanket the Canim Lake reserve near 100 Mile House.
Photographs of the scene show carcasses frozen in the snow and animals with plainly visible ribcages.
Resident Laird Archie discovered the full extent of the carnage after he noticed five dead horses along one road. Setting out by snowmobile, he found fewer than 30 of the herd alive out of the 90 head he counted last fall.
“The people that own them, they see them every day pawing around in the fields because they're within sight of the main village. They see them pawing, but nobody ever threw them out a bale of hay.”
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12.03.2009 21:03
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