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Article: FINAL PASTURE.(Animals)(A Noti farmer operates one of the few horse cemeteries in the country)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- March 19, 2006
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Byline: Tim Christie The Register-Guard
OTI - The call comes in the morning, after a cold, wet night, and David Heidt asks a few questions, writes down an address and climbs into his big, white, truck-turned-horse-hearse.
He drives out to a farm, where he finds a horse lying on the ground, dead. Heidt picks up the horse with his crane and puts it in a red steel box on the back of the truck, and takes it back to his farm, where he buries it in a pasture at the end of a valley.
Heidt is an equine undertaker, operating the only horse cemetery in Oregon and one of just a handful nationwide.
Heidt, 42, said he never expected to find himself ...