Rehoming drive to prevent funding bad breeding
‘Adoptober’ aims to showcase the charity’s horses and ponies’ versatility and capability, whether they are ridden horses, companion animals or youngsters with lots of potential
Inspirational stories about horses who had been rescued from poor conditions going on to better homes and their achievements therein.
‘Adoptober’ aims to showcase the charity’s horses and ponies’ versatility and capability, whether they are ridden horses, companion animals or youngsters with lots of potential
‘People arrived en masse to come and assist and we are so grateful to them’
Yogi was taken into the care of World Horse Welfare as a two-year-old after he and his field-mate were bought by someone with ‘very little knowledge’ of their background who contacted the charity for advice
Every day, our horses work for us tirelessly, teaching riding skills, providing therapy and promoting equestrianism. In this series, we meet some of the horses and ponies who are Britain’s unsung heroes, such as Storm Cloud, the Dartmoor Hill Pony who is helping to promote the work of the Mare and Foal Sanctuary
The two ponies have made incredible transformations after arriving in the charity’s care in 2018
‘It looks to me that as poor Jack was getting older, someone thought he wasn’t good enough any more and just dumped him’
‘It’s lucky he was found relatively quickly as had he been left for much longer, it’s unlikely he would have survived’
What great advocates of rescue horses this lovely bunch are
The six-month-old colt had been spotted straying dangerously close to the road
Hope has been in the charity’s care since she was found abandoned at six months old, in 2014
‘I just knew seeing her leave the yard with someone else would have broken my heart’
The police and fire services took part in the five-hour rescue operation
Magic was rehomed by the Young family in June 1996
Dodger was rescued in 2016 after being discovered in a ditch up to his neck
The charity remains in ‘the midst of an ongoing equine crisis’ with high numbers of horses being neglected or abandoned.
The pony learned the finishing times of the local school and would take himself to wait at the gates each day in the hope of finding food
The man pleaded guilty to 25 offences relating to 33 horses and donkeys
Seven emaciated horses were also rescued from the same location
‘When I saw them both on the website they were so adorable and reading about the bond they have inspired me’
Spike has qualified for the British Dressage winter regionals in February 2019