Abuse, Abandonment and Death
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The single, most terrifying thing that can happen to a horse is that he would be abandoned and loose the life he's known - be it a good life, full of love and devotion ... or a hard life, full of work and hardship.
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The articles that follow are about real cases of horse abuses, abandonments and deaths, horses of the 20th & 21st centuries, horses that - at least in a few cases - have managed to survive to this day.
Not all were lucky enough to survive.
I make no judgements here - I think the stories themselves pretty well make the judgements for me. All of the stories here were given me by people who were/are intimately involved in the individual cases, I'm only collecting them and providing an outlet for broken hearts and souls.
As you read the articles, I don't want you to enjoy them - although some are rather spectacular in their outcome. I want you to think about this very real evil that claims as many horses every year as does disease, commercial slaughter and all the rest.
Then I want you to ask yourself, "is there a horse somewhere that I can help"? "Is there a horse that I know of who needs to be rescued and nurtured, loved and cared for"?
Then think about your own horse ...
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Taylor's Special
Thunder
Snowcap's Legend
Gypsy
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