A homeowner had a bit of a surprise on Friday morning when three horses burst into the garden with one of them falling into the swimming pool.
04.09.2015
A homeowner had a bit of a surprise on Friday morning when three horses burst into the garden with one of them falling into the swimming pool.
It was about 6am when firefighters received a curious call from a resident in Kockelscheuer explaining that a poor horse was trapped in their pool, and now doing a couple of lengths.
So emergency services hoofed it to the residence to rescue the animal. The operation to get the horse out of its predicament was quite a major one and there was not horsing around as the pool had to be drained using three pumps.
Then a crane rolled in with special straps to hoist the horse out of the pool and onto dry land.
The event went swimmingly and a veterinarian who inspected the animal at the scene declared it unharmed.
The whole rescue operation lasted about two hours.