Horse Was Freezing For Hours As Rescuers Struggle To Save Him

Cody Scott was confronted with an incident on Monday afternoon that he hopes he never has to face again.

Twenty-year-old Scott wound up on his snowmobile looking for his neighbor’s horse who went missing near the town of Rimbey, Alta. When he finally spotted the black horse, it was up to its neck in the icy waters of Lloyd Creek. The horse must have wandered off and fallen through the ice.

Finally, Scott reached down into the water and tied a rope around one of the horse’s hoofs. “We were able to grab that front foot and put it above the ice, which helped to get her second foot onto the ice,” he told Red Deer News.
When firefighters and RCMP showed up, they assisted for another hour of pulling, and eventually the horse was out. Scott captured the rescue on his GoPro and uploaded it to Facebook.
He says he was thankful he was able to save the horse’s life but told Global News he’d “never come across this and hope to never again.”