Fire breaks stable to 900 kilograms of heavy horse to be able to save

Kontich Three brandweerploegen van Ranst and Mechelen Tuesday, four hours in the weather to Clyde, a Scottish draught horse of 900 kilograms, back on his legs to get in a meadow on the Barren rue du chêne in Kontich. The animal lay on its side in a barn of three on three metres and ran on its own power not more right.

Clyde is a 23-year-old gelding, a neutered Scottish Clydesdale stallion, of a solid 900 pounds. Tuesday afternoon, about half-past four was the animal on its side and ended up in his stable and got no more right under his own weight. If a horse of that age and size to long on, they are lies, it dies irrevocably. Horses are vluchtdieren if there is danger, therefore they sleep usually by standing. If they lie, they do that usually with their legs under. “Clyde went past more and more often they are, but this time, he arrived himself, impossible right, I saw that on the veegsporen of his hoofs in the stable. By its own weight, the flow of blood to Clyde's rechterachterbeen cut off, so the leg began to sleep”, says owner Luc Van Kerckhoven (57). “He also had injuries to the head are to be disposed of.”