Image Credit: Candice Camille Photography

By Adam Donnelly

WILD HORSES

VIDEO: Kamloops cowboy family helps save wild foal stuck in the mud

Apr 20, 2021 | 5:06 PM

KAMLOOPS — On Saturday (April 17), Jordan Camille was out checking some fence lines near the Tk’emlups reservoir, when he came across a small herd of wild horses.

“Usually they run away,” Jordan’s wife Candice explains. “You can’t really get close to them. They take off.”

This time they didn’t, so Jordan called his wife Candice to come to take some photos.

“We’re out photographing them and they were still sticking pretty close,” Candice explains. “The one mare that’s in the video, she kept coming at us, a bit. We looped around the gully, and that’s where we noticed the baby foal stuck in the bottom of the gully in a mud hole.”

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They decided they had to do what they could to save the foal. Jordan went down into the gully, while Candice kept an eye on the momma horse.

“I had Candice watch for the mare as I went down into the mud pit,” Jordan explains. “I think it was about second or third try I was able to pick him and carry him out. From that point, I put him in a safe spot where the mare could come and nuzzle him. Get him drinking and moving.”

Soon after, the mare and the stallion came over to check on the little one. The Camilles left after about a 45-minute rescue effort. They returned a day later and said there was no sign of the horse family.

“We went up Sunday morning and we looked around the watering hole area, and the tree,” Candice explains. “We walked a bit to see if it was there, laying down. e didn’t see it, so we took that as a good sign.”

While the Camilles have found orphaned foals before, this was the first time they’d come across a situation like this.

“To find one like that, where the mom stays back and is that protective and strong was a different experience, in itself,” Jordan says.

WATCH: (Video Credit: Candice Camille)