By Caleb Hutton
A wild horse adopted by a Bellingham woman has gone missing in the Squalicum Valley area.
The horse, Flirt, was last seen by some neighbor kids at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 30, after it broke through a 6-foot wooden fence near Y Road.
Tracey Westbury posted photos and gave a detailed description of the horse (a red dun yearling filly, 14.2 hands tall, wearing a halter but not halter-broke) on her Facebook page.
Flirt, a recently adopted 1-year-old wild horse, went missing Tuesday morning, Oct. 30.
Westbury said Flirt was adopted this week and hauled home to the 3600 block of Y Road on Monday night. Flirt was getting ready to go out with her riding partner Tuesday morning when she panicked and crashed through the fence. She might have an injured hind leg.
Because Flirt is wild, anybody who spots her should be cautious. Feel free to call Westbury at 360-224-2693 if you do see the horse. Or call the Whatcom Humane Society at 360-733-2080.
“Most importantly,” Westbury said, “don’t try to run up and catch her. Keep a safe distance.”
The horse was adopted through the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s Wild Horse Program.
A horse with 14 hands should be easy to identify.
That extra fifth of a hand will be the real giveaway.
A wild horse can’t go missing. Then it wouldn’t be wild.
Oh, please you guys – grow up!!
A horse is measured in hands….there are 4 inches to 1 hand. When you say she is 14.2 hands you are saying she is 14 hands plus 2 inches at measured from the ground to the top of her withers. It is how people measured before measuring tapes were common.
And if that’s the only thing you have to say about this missing horse, then perhaps you should refrain from speaking lest you look like an imbecile?