ANIMAL PEOPLE is the leading independent newspaper providing original investigative coverage of animal protection worldwide. Founded in 1992, ANIMAL PEOPLE has no alignment or affiliation with any other entity. |
This site built and maintained by: GREANVILLE ASSOCIATES and CRESCENT COMMUNICATIONS • Rev. 6.1.05 Copyright ANIMAL PEOPLE, INC. 1992--2005
 |
 |
ESSENTIAL DESTINATIONS
|
OCTOBER 2005
CARRIAGE HORSE RESCUERS IN THE OLD CITY
A week after the New Orleans levies broke, the Lamar-Dixon Expo Center and 4-H Center in Gonzales, 45 miles north, held more then 220 horses and mules, many of them evacuated from carriage stables.
Equine and Bovine Magazine managing editor Rebecca Gimenez reported rescuing 63 horses from three feet of water that filled two barns in Kenner, near the New Orleans airport, but the most dramatic equine rescue was of 22 horses and mules kept by Mid-City Carriages. Stranded for a week after the city flooded, the animals were attended by stable hands Darnell Stewart, Fabien Redmund, and Lucien Mitchell Jr., who volunteered to stay with them. The three men led the horses and mules to high ground at Leimann Park, slept in shifts to fend off would-be horse thieves, and at last assisted in evacuating them all on September 7.
One horse died earlier at the Mid-City Carriages stable, and two others died later while receiving emergency care at Louisiana State University.