A resident of the Canadian province of British Columbia said dozens of area horses have been slowly starving to death amid heavy winter weather, UPI reported. Laird Archie, who lives in the area of British Columbia's Canim Lake reserve, said of the 90 horses he counted in an area herd last fall, less than 30 managed to survive the winter, The (Toronto) Globe aand Mail reported Wednesday. "The people that own them, they see them every day pawing around in the fields because they're within sight of the main village," he said. "They see them pawing but nobody ever threw them out a bale of hay." Archie said while the horses have survived on little to no food for years prior, the winter's inclement weather proved too much for many of them. Shawn Eccles, a senior official with the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in British Columbia, told The Globe and Mail the situation would be investigated.
