A Bristol animal rescue charity has issued an urgent appeal after it took in five malnourished and emaciated ponies after a major rescue operation. Horseworld said it was already at capacity when the urgent call came in from a range of agencies who were about to rescue five ‘extremely frightened and malnourished ponies’.
The Stockwood-based equine rescue centre has not revealed many details of the rescue operation itself, but said it could not turn away the ponies who were ‘in desperate need of our help’. The animals have been put into isolation as the long, slow process of nursing them back to health begins.
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