Posted on 08/13/2018 10:44:49 AM PDT by Red Badger
Sammy the mini horse was found wandering South Carolina streets severely neglected. His bones showed in stark relief beneath his coat and he had trouble walking.
Sammy was just “skin and bones,” said Darlene Kindle of Carolina Equine Rescue and Assistance in Union County, where Sammy was transported earlier this month.
Kindle said that because of severe neglect, she initially was told that Sammy should be euthanized. But Kindle, and her golden retriever Molly, weren’t ready to give up on him, she told The News & Observer on Aug. 12 . And Molly was determined to make friends.
Kindle posted a video of Molly and Sammy on Facebook that had more than a quarter million views as of Aug. 12.
In the video, Molly sits outside Sammy’s stall and the two gently nuzzle each other.
“Molly is your typical Walmart greeter,” Kindle wrote on Facebook. “She loves everyone including all the animals we have on the farm. She especially loves the minis; she can reach them much easier.
“Sammy, the mini that she is comforting, just came into CERA’s program. He is nothing but skin and bones and scared. Molly truly has an exceptional sense of knowing when one of the animals doesn’t feel good or sad. So she very gently introduces herself. This is her job and she is very good at it as you can see.”
Sammy was taken to CERA after being found by a South Carolina shelter. He weighed about 200 pounds, Kindle said — he should weigh closer to 300.
“Sam was bad. On a scale of 1-10, he was a low 2,” she said.
The mini horse’s hind end was low and he was dragging one of his hind feet, Kindle said.
“He walked like a duck,” she said. “You could see the patella popping in and out.”
When Kindle spoke with a veterinarian, she asked if Sammy “had the will to live in his eyes.”
“He did, so I agreed to take him,” she said. “I didn’t know if his little body and organs were going to make it through the night but they did.”
Sammy will need a lot of care and attention as he recovers from neglect, Kindle said. Among the many health issues he faces, he could also need surgery. Kindle’s rescue depends on donations.
“Please donate,” she said. “Sam has a long rode ahead of him and we need your help.”
For more information, or to donate to the rescue, go to www.cera-inc.com/how-you-can-help.html.
Who is the democrat that abandoned the horse in the first place?
Horses and dogs do well together. Almost every horse barn has dogs too. Dalmatians are associated with fire engines because dalmatians keep horses calm. Back when fire engines were pulled by horses, dalmatians became standard dogs at fire houses.
So this story makes a lot of sense. Horses and dogs have been friends since the beginning of domestication of both species. What does not make sense is that the horse was skin and bones. The only way that happens is if the horse was trapped in a barn or a small corral. Horses graze on lots of wild vegetation. The horse can find its own food if its freed.
We took some livestock to the weekend auction about 2 months ago. As we were walking around the pens my wife spotted a mini-donkey. So instead of leaving we stayed until the donkey came through and we won her. She is very sweet and not more than a couple of years old. When we put her in the pen with the goats and our old cow, the field dogs, both Great Pyrenees, came right up to her with their tails wagging. They were licking her face and started chasing each other. They became the bestest of friends.
CHECK the horse for a tapeworm. Neighbors had a skin and bones horse while the others were fat. That is what they found.
No matter how much complaining I hear about us having a Uniparty system, stories like this tell me otherwise.
People who took this horse in and are caring for it “Get It!”
Unlike the scum who kicked it out to fend for itself and die.
Dalmatians are known for making strong bonds with horses, and are excellent rat catchers...In the firehouse stables, rats and other vermin were a problem the Dalmatian dog handled for the firemen...
They have great endurance, and ran ahead of the horses, barking to alert pedestrians of the fire engine’s approach...They also kept the horses calm at the fire scene, and protected the engines, equipment and personal belongings from thieves...
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