Horse rescued from bathtub by firefighters

Don’t dance too close to the bathtub: It’s a lesson a horse named Phantom had to learn the hard way.

Last Wednesday, the 30-year-old Palomino/Appaloosa mix was dancing around her stall at a farm in Orangevale, California, protecting her food trough — which is a bathtub — when she fell into the trough and got stuck.

For about 25 minutes, the horse was stuck with her feet in the air, unable to wiggle free.

Phantom’s owners, Charles Campbell and his wife, called 911.

(At first, the dispatcher misunderstood the call and thought Mrs. Campbell was calling about her husband getting stuck in the tub. Honest mistake.)

The Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District worked with the family to tilt the bathtub on its side and pull the horse out of the tub and onto her feet.

“She was totally stuck, legs up in the air and all!” the Fire District wrote on Facebook, describing the rescue.

“Working closely with the family, many hands (and a few tools) got her back on her feet in just a few minutes. Now Phantom can get back to dancing around the stall!”

Phantom was not injured in the ordeal.

The bathtub rescue was caught and camera and posted on Facebook.