Fox Affiliate Channel 7, Miami-Ft Lauderdale reports:

SOUTHWEST MIAMI-DADE (WSVN) -- Two horses found stuck in ditches are recovering after they were left to roam the streets of a rural part of Miami-Dade on their own.

The two horses arrived at the animal shelter Saturday and veterinarians are uncertain whether the horses will pull through because of how malnourished they are.

The South Florida Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals will nurse the animals back to health and try to find them a new home. "Please, if anyone out there is willing to take a horse, either for pleasure riding or just as a companion for another horse, please step forward now," Jeanette Jordan said.

They now rest in their new temporary home in Hialeah after a dramatic rescue in Southwest Miami-Dade Friday. The horses are old, frail and are several hundred pounds under weight. "They're all skin and bones.They've been obviously starving for a very long time," Jordan said.

The abandoned animals were stuck in a ditch on Southwest 168th street and 199th Avenue. A driver spotted one of the horses and called for help. "I was driving down the road and I saw a horses head sticking out eating grass about two feet off the ground," Felicia Perez said.

Miami-Dade Fire and technical rescue units arrived on the scene. The crews strapped harnesses around the animals, and then used a tractor to pull them out.

Later on a third horse was found wandering around, also in bad shape.

The South Florida Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals are asking for donations to care for these animals.

Please give generously at www.spca-sofla.org/donate/.

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REP. NICK RAHALL

In a letter dated July 9, 2008, Rep. Nick Rahall, Chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources, called on the Department of Interior's Bureau of Land Management, to refrain from moving forward with plans to "euthanize" America's wild horses and burros languishing (our word) in their holding pens.

Read Hero for Horses Rep. Nick Rahall's letter here. (pdf)

Thank you, Rep. Rahall, for riding to the rescue of America's wild horses and burros once again.