A local family is asking for assistance finding their two missing horses, who disappeared from a facility in Oildale and have a contagious respiratory illness.
- Josh Pryor and his family rescued two horses from a kill pen in Colorado just this past July.
- A few weeks later, on August 30, Pryor discovered the two were missing from their pen at the facility in Oildale off S. Plymouth Ave.
- Pryor worries they could have been taken, especially since they were recovering from a highly contagious respiratory illness: strangles.
For Josh Pryor, his love of horses is not only a hobby but something that has pushed him to help rescue horses in need. That’s why when his two latest rescues went missing, the loss left him and his family devastated.
“It’s a punch in the stomach, rips at your heart,” Pryor said. “Especially for our son, it affects him.”
Pryor has been taking care of horses for three decades now, from riding, to cleaning stalls and keeping them well fed. Even his son Logan is following in his footsteps, helping them take care of their two latest rescues whom they recovered from a kill pen in Colorado just this past July.