Kontich Three brandweerploegen van Ranst and Mechelen Tuesday, four hours in the weather to Clyde, a Scottish draught horse of 900 kilos back on his feet 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 and found himself on his own strength is not more right.
Clyde is a 23-year-old rui, a neutered Scottish Clydesdale stallion, a solid 900 pounds. Tuesday afternoon, about half-past four it was on, they ended up in his barn and the sick of the palsy itself is impossible 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. On their they lie, they do not take more than a few minutes. “Clyde was used to be more on his side, 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 this leg began to sleep”, says owner Luc Van Kerckhoven (57). “He also had injuries to the head from punches”.
