ADA, Mich. — A family from Rockford asked for the community's help in finding their lost horse. They found her Tuesday evening.
They say Babe escaped from Classic Equine clinic in Ada, where she was being treated for puncture wounds and ran off into the woods after having a reaction to a medication.
"She was having a kind of seizure-like activity. The vet brought her out to put her in a better place if she decided to go down and slipped, and the horse bolted from there behind the clinic," said Autumn Holub, owner of the horse who she has has been in the family for three years, and is her daughter's riding horse in her high school equestrian team.
"She loves people. She loves attention. My daughter absolutely adores riding her."
Babe has puncture wounds with drain tubes that Holub says were still attached when she escaped from the clinic on Thursday.
"I'm really concerned that the fact that we haven't seen her, that she might be caught up on something in the woods or something like that. I don't know if she has injured herself anymore, or got caught on a tree and can't escape, or I mean, so many bad things could happen to a horse going through all of this," said Holub, before she was found.
Holub also is thankful for the clinic's assistance in trying to find Babe.
"I don't blame the vet for any of this. It just was a freak accident."
Babe is described as a dark brown horse, with a light colored "star" on her forehead. Holub, along with her family and other volunteers have been searching the area by horse, four-wheeler, and by air, as one man offered to provide a ride in his air plane to search the area.
Thankfully, she was found just a half mile from the clinic.
Their post has received more than 1,000 shares on Facebook, and Holub says she has received messages from over 100 people asking how they can help.
"It's astonishing. I mean, I never thought that so many people would reach out," said Holub.
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