PHILADELPHIA — Driving down the road each day by his house in Columbus, Ohio, John Tortorella noticed that the horse next door was starting to look skinny. He stopped and learned the horse’s owner was getting old and having trouble taking care of it.
Tortorella had a farm and a pasture, so he offered to feed it. After a few months, they mutually decided it was now Tortorella’s horse.
“So that’s how he found one of his [three] horses,” said Zack Bendler, cofounder of Bella Run Equine, a nonprofit that focuses on the responsible rescue, rehabilitation, and rehoming of at-risk horses and dogs.
