She was drowning in mud when they found her ââ¬â lying in a ditch, shivering with cold and waiting to die. The barbed wire that entangled her was cutting into her flesh. She was starving, skeletal and helpless.
By the time a vet reached her, the two-year-old chestnut mare probably had only minutes to live. She was caked in filth and struggling to breathe.
She was so weak she could barely find the strength to lift her nostrils out of the water-filled gully that was about to become her miserable grave. It took a mechanical digger to hoist the young shire to safety ââ¬â then a desperate, long-running battle to save her life.
When she stumbled to her feet for the first time after being transported to a sanctuary, the pathetic sight reduced some of her rescuers to tears. All through the night, they nursed her, fed her, even said a prayer for her.
The name they gave her was Hope. Charity, it transpired, would take far longer to come to her aid.
The young vet who organised Hopeââ¬â¢s rescue was so appalled when the RSPCA refused to prosecute the owner that she paid ã1,500 to buy the horse in an 11th-hour attempt to save it.
Full article with pictures of Hope: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ving-skeletal-helpless-horse-called-Hope.html
By the time a vet reached her, the two-year-old chestnut mare probably had only minutes to live. She was caked in filth and struggling to breathe.
She was so weak she could barely find the strength to lift her nostrils out of the water-filled gully that was about to become her miserable grave. It took a mechanical digger to hoist the young shire to safety ââ¬â then a desperate, long-running battle to save her life.
When she stumbled to her feet for the first time after being transported to a sanctuary, the pathetic sight reduced some of her rescuers to tears. All through the night, they nursed her, fed her, even said a prayer for her.
The name they gave her was Hope. Charity, it transpired, would take far longer to come to her aid.
The young vet who organised Hopeââ¬â¢s rescue was so appalled when the RSPCA refused to prosecute the owner that she paid ã1,500 to buy the horse in an 11th-hour attempt to save it.
Full article with pictures of Hope: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ving-skeletal-helpless-horse-called-Hope.html
