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Emergency Phone: 425-681-5498

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Cowboy, Horse Needing A Lift Up

On July 21, we had the opportunity to help a sweet Appaloosa horse get back on his feet. We received a call for a horse that was down in Monroe. Our technical rescue team arrived with the equipment truck to find Cowboy, 32 years old, unable to rise in his stall. The owner stated he …

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Buster, Horse Down a Slope

We got a call from the owner of Buster, a horse we’d helped a three years ago out in Orting. Before we’d met him, he’d had a broken pelvis and the convalescing had left him without enough muscle in his hind end to stand back up after laying down. We had gone out for a …

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Flame, Horse in Ditch on Christmas Eve

On Christmas Eve, we got a call about a horse stuck in a ditch. Upon arriving on scene, it seemed to be a fairly straightforward matter — Flame, a senior horse was down in some muck off the side of the road. She couldn’t get any kind of traction with her hind legs so she …

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Twix, Horse Across a River

On Monday afternoon we received a call for a horse on the wrong side of the river in Snohomish. We sent out a responder who lives in the area to have him evaluate the situation and take some photos so we could figure out if we could do a safe rescue and if so, how …

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Buster: Horse Needing a Lift

March 26, 2017, just as we were arriving home from training, we received a call from our answering service requesting assistance for a horse cast in a shed. We headed out to Orting, WA, after getting permission from the Pierce County officials. We found Buster laying in an open shed, attended by concerned family. He’d …

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Honey the Horse Stuck in the Mud

Honey the Horse Stuck in the Mud

May 25, 2016 As we were wrapping up this spring’s Fundamentals Training, we received a call about a horse in a creek in Everett. Part of the training involved the technical rescue team giving a demo on the bipod/tripod and various rope systems, so many of the technical responder were on site at the training, …

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Anakin, a horse stands supported in a sling

Anakin, a Horse with a Past Gets a Lift

On Saturday, December 7, we were called to assist in raising a horse who was down and could not stand. A woman had rescued the horses only a couple of days before from a situation where neither horse was getting enough to eat. Both horses were thin, but one was much more so with ribs …

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Tia, Horse over an Embankment

Tia, Horse over an Embankment

On August 28, 2016 we deployed very early in the morning to help with a horse down an embankment. The call originally came to search and rescue as a rider injured, so Seattle Mountain Rescue (SMR) and Explorer Search and Rescue (ESAR) deployed in the dark to head up the 4.5+ miles up the beginning …

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Lars East, a Friesian with Arthritic Hips

Lars East, a Friesian with Arthritic Hips

December 28, 2015 On December 22, we received a call about a Friesian gelding who was down in his stall and could not get up so we sent nine responders to the location in Snohomish, WA to assist with getting him to his feet. The horse, a 20 year old named Lars East (there is …

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A horse stuck in the mud is rescued by the technical animal rescue team.

Dane, Horse Stuck in the Mud

Dane, our subject yesterday, ended up sunk to his belly in mud at about noon. At the request of the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Department, we set out from the equipment van’s base in Enumclaw for Snohomish’s Lord Hill County Park, a popular equine destination. When we arrived, we were met by Snohomish County Search & …

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