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The Rescue of Belle and Sundance: One Town's Incredible Race to Save Two Abandoned Horses
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The Rescue of Belle and Sundance: One Town’s Incredible Race to Save Two Abandoned Horses

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A book that takes the reader to the heart of the struggle to save two horses.

A book that takes the reader to the heart of the struggle to save two horses. In December 2008, two abandoned pack horses, a young mare named Belle and an older gelding called Sundance, are spotted by snowmobilers in the remote mountains of the Canadian Rockies.. Starving and exhausted, they’ve trampled the snow into a deep white closet, with walls towering over them. Others manage to reach the horses, bringing hay but also a gun, in case the horses are too far gone. A slight sign of life in the horses’ eyes gets them the hay.
The 8-day story of their near impossible rescue, involving a trench dug by dozens of volunteers six feet deep and a kilometre long, and then a 30 kilometre descent for the frostbitten humans and wretchedly weak and emaciated horses in minus 40 degrees temperatures, and a Christmas Eve transfer to a foster farm, is sure to be read in one breathless sitting. The austerely beautiful setting and the riveting details (the horses bond to one another led to their abandonment, they ate one another’s tails for protein, and their first meal could be only flakes of hay, and Gatorade) add to this tale of animal resilience and trust, and human stamina and compassion

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Random House Australia
Country
Australia
Date
1 April 2012
Pages
240
ISBN
9781742755137

A book that takes the reader to the heart of the struggle to save two horses.

A book that takes the reader to the heart of the struggle to save two horses. In December 2008, two abandoned pack horses, a young mare named Belle and an older gelding called Sundance, are spotted by snowmobilers in the remote mountains of the Canadian Rockies.. Starving and exhausted, they’ve trampled the snow into a deep white closet, with walls towering over them. Others manage to reach the horses, bringing hay but also a gun, in case the horses are too far gone. A slight sign of life in the horses’ eyes gets them the hay.
The 8-day story of their near impossible rescue, involving a trench dug by dozens of volunteers six feet deep and a kilometre long, and then a 30 kilometre descent for the frostbitten humans and wretchedly weak and emaciated horses in minus 40 degrees temperatures, and a Christmas Eve transfer to a foster farm, is sure to be read in one breathless sitting. The austerely beautiful setting and the riveting details (the horses bond to one another led to their abandonment, they ate one another’s tails for protein, and their first meal could be only flakes of hay, and Gatorade) add to this tale of animal resilience and trust, and human stamina and compassion

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Random House Australia
Country
Australia
Date
1 April 2012
Pages
240
ISBN
9781742755137