Horse rescue agencies need help themselves
By Katie West, Charleston, SC Post and Courier
Aug.
03--MEGGETT -A pony recently found a new home here at the Livestock Equine
Awareness and Rescue Network after a father bought it for his daughter but it
bit her twice.
The
girl no longer wanted the horse, and neighbors found it wandering around with
its ribs showing.
The
pony's path to LEARN was not a particularly unusual one.
"He's
the nicest man," said Elizabeth Steed, the nonprofit's director, said
of the father. "Most of the people who do this, they're not monsters.
They're just not educated. They don't understand that these horses need so much
attention."
Steed
has been rescuing horses for 30 years, and she's familiar with stories like
this. But in the last few years, she has heard more and more.
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