Rescues and Such

These are just a few of the call that were handled by the Southern Division during the past three months.

No they are not hooved, but last month we took in a very fat pot-bellied pig and she had some "friends with her that we made "honorary" hooved animals, three parakeets and three rabbits. Oops.... our mistake, one rabbit was a boy and the others where female, so we now have nine rabbits due to birth. Although it is not IHAHS policy to foster non-hooved animals, one of our members did so at the request of the Crawford County Sheriffs Department and we just could not turn them down, considering the conditions that they were living in. We nicknamed the pot bellied pig "Miss Piggy" and she has been fostered out. Miss Piggy is doing well, but we still have the rabbits and parakeets up for foster.

 A twelve hour ordeal ended with the death of a horse that should not have been. We received a "horse down" call from the owner of a mare that had been down for a couple of days. She seemed to be suffering from heat exhaustion and a possible broken back. The mare had been dragging herself around the field for hours feeding and was very dehydrated. IHAHS members and other volunteers moved the horse into a shelter to get her out of the weather, unfortunately, the mare passed away the next day.

Everyone know this type of horse, he is the older than dirt blind as a bat type of guy, filled with the sweetest personality. Gramps as we call him must have been an adorable mini in his day. Sadly though, he managed to out live both of his doting owners. His care giver realized that Gramps needed more than he could provide so he was donated to IHAHS. Gramps was in need of some serious weight and farrier care, but I am told he is doing well. Gramps was adopted less than 24 hours after he was picked up.