Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Horse owner credits Alachua County deputy in rescue



http://www.ocala.com/article/20120103/ARTICLES/120109957?p=1&tc=pg

By Karen Voyles

Staff writer

Published: Tuesday, January 3, 2012 at 11:07 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, January 3, 2012 at 11:07 a.m.

Midnight may not have the nine lives that cats are reputed to have, but the Tennessee Walker got a second chance at life over the weekend after a scary incident on Paynes Prairie.

Midnight and his owner, James Bland, of Ocala, were making their first visit to the horse-friendly state park Friday when their real adventure began around 12:15 p.m.

“I was walking him, and we started down a trail that turned out to be the bog,” Bland said Tuesday morning. “He found the hole and got into it and then as he tried to get out, he just got himself in deeper and deeper.”


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