Digger is washed before taking a 4-hour sleep
Horse was submerged up to his nose in sewage
Hole is drained
A 17-year-old horse named Digger has survived six days down a sewage hole in Alberta submerged up to his nose in filthy water. His owners, the Danyluk family, found him by luck. One family member re-searched an area near the horse pen and heard a sound. Then she found the old hole where Digger had crashed through a rotted wooden cover. The hole was drained and a veterinarian ventured down there to strap a harness on the forlorn beast. Then a fork lift slowly raised Digger to the grassy pasture where he fell on his side and reportedly slept for four hours. When he woke, Digger was hungry. He consumed everything nearby from grass to timbits. All of this at the hamlet of Abee about 50 km northeast of Edmonton.
