A Texas police officer came across two horses on a property that had been ravaged by Hurricane Harvey in 2017. The property was “like a swamp” and in awful condition. A concerned neighbor had called in about one horse that got stuck in a fence. The Friendswood Police Department responded, cutting the horse free, and officer Matthew Schmidt learned the acreage’s owner was an elderly widow who, in the wake of Harvey, began living on another property, while stopping by regularly to feed the horses. After a while, Schmidt stopped seeing the animals and assumed they’d been moved—until he saw them again in January 2021. “I realized they were still living there,” Schmidt told The Epoch Times. “One looked really skinny.” The officer took it upon himself to start feeding them, stopping by every day—even though the Michigan native knew nothing about horses. (Courtesy of Matthew Schmidt) “I had to do some research,” …