The advantages of house sitting on a long assignment are many and becoming involved in the local community is important, fulfilling and personally satisfying whatever your interests. Opportunities to give back, help, share, support and become educated abound, using your professional or life skills for the benefit of others or simply making yourself available can be rewarding and empowering, you never know what fate has in store. I believe we find ourselves where we're meant to be for reasons we may not realise until we've left ..... rather heavy and profound I know but it's been one of those days very humbling.
I wanted to get involved through my passion for animals and their welfare during my time here in Spain, as I suspected the opportunity and need is huge. Yesterday I contacted two ladies who work tirelessly and against great odds to rescue, treat, re-home ponies, donkeys and horses, they currently care for 17, the newest rescues being two badly neglected young ponies Valiente and Hope a post on their Facebook Page three days after their arrival ....
"OK latest update on our 2 new babies. The vet has been to see them today and was horrified at the state of the boys hoofs, he has never seen anything like it. We will be doing some digital x rays on him tomorrow but we are looking at 50/50 if not less of them being able to be repaired. The little girl now named Hope is about 3 years old, blind in one eye and partially sited in the other, it looks like she has a ulcer in the eye probably caused by a blow to the head. She also has a abscess on her back hoof, she is a complete bag of nerves and scared to death, we managed to give her a injection of antibiotics.
Tomorrow morning we will know more"
When I saw them today, 16 days post arrival, the improvement is remarkable they both still have a very long and tough road ahead but they are in the best possible of caring and loving hands ....... it will be my privilege to help.
I didn't take any photos today but will have plenty of opportunity n the next few weeks meanwhile please go to the ARCH Facebook page, like share and support their work and they are posting daily reports and photos of the ponies along with all their other lucky equines .... lucky to be at ARCH!
https://www.facebook.com/pages/ARCH/206324929402837?fref=ts
I wanted to get involved through my passion for animals and their welfare during my time here in Spain, as I suspected the opportunity and need is huge. Yesterday I contacted two ladies who work tirelessly and against great odds to rescue, treat, re-home ponies, donkeys and horses, they currently care for 17, the newest rescues being two badly neglected young ponies Valiente and Hope a post on their Facebook Page three days after their arrival ....
"OK latest update on our 2 new babies. The vet has been to see them today and was horrified at the state of the boys hoofs, he has never seen anything like it. We will be doing some digital x rays on him tomorrow but we are looking at 50/50 if not less of them being able to be repaired. The little girl now named Hope is about 3 years old, blind in one eye and partially sited in the other, it looks like she has a ulcer in the eye probably caused by a blow to the head. She also has a abscess on her back hoof, she is a complete bag of nerves and scared to death, we managed to give her a injection of antibiotics.
Tomorrow morning we will know more"
When I saw them today, 16 days post arrival, the improvement is remarkable they both still have a very long and tough road ahead but they are in the best possible of caring and loving hands ....... it will be my privilege to help.
I didn't take any photos today but will have plenty of opportunity n the next few weeks meanwhile please go to the ARCH Facebook page, like share and support their work and they are posting daily reports and photos of the ponies along with all their other lucky equines .... lucky to be at ARCH!
https://www.facebook.com/pages/ARCH/206324929402837?fref=ts
