Verna and Arvie Webster used to have 15 miniature horses roaming their pasture until a pack of wolves moved into the neighborhood.
Now they only have 11 left.
They've lost 4 horses in the last two weeks, with the most recent attack happening last week.
The couple who own a hobby farm on Giscome Road say the wolves are a new problem.
The Webster's are experienced horse breeders, who have been raising the miniature horses for 15 years.
"We lost one horse a longtime ago, but since then we haven't had a problem," said Verna.
To the Websters the little horses family pets and losing four of them has been terrible.
"He'll have to call them up - [the horses] only come to him," said Verna referring to her husband Arvie.
The wolves managed to kill one of the smallest colts, "he was tiny," said Verna.
Webster now keeps the horses inside the barn at night and makes sure to keep watch after the sun goes down.
The couple has only seen one wolf, that they described as being black and bigger than some of the horses themselves, "he came right up into our barnyard," said Verna.
"[The pack] took two [horses] and they were licked up that night and the next morning all there was were a few bones and the little colts head," said Arvie.
Conservation officers say miniature horses are easy prey for the wolves and they are warning residents to keep a close eye on family pets because the officers are preparing to set traps but reminding residents that the wolves haven't been coming after people instead the wolves appear focused on the miniature horses.
"I use them to graze all my land, they are cheap to feed and cuter than a lawn mower," said Margaret Turcotte, another miniature horse owner.
"Plus they fertilize the lawn at the same time," said Paul Turcotte.
Webster raced horses before owning the minis and they've owned the ones in this herd for 14 years.
"I have four of my own. Two show horses and two lawn ornaments," joked Joan McNaughton, treasurer of the Interior Miniature horse club.
She lives in Quesnel and that city is currently dealing with a cougar as well as lone wolf sightings. Her minis are in the barn every night.
"They are sitting ducks," said McNaughton.
Miniature horses can live to be 25-35 years old and are considered horses by official registries.
When they are born, miniature horses are only 15 inches high on average.
The B.C government has recently declared open season on wolves in the Cariboo region after complaints from cattle ranchers that there livestock were being threatened.
