SAPPHIRE & JEWEL

The Charity received reports of a pony by the side of the road lying in a ditch on Friday 12th March, on arrival she was brought to her feet, clearly suffering from effects of the cold she was moved to the yard. She was immediately seen by the vet and given antibiotics. She has done well for a couple of days, but very much like Opal did she has taken a turn for the worse and has been transferred to B&W Equine hospital for further treatment. Jewel was brought in with Sapphire, she was very thin and weak, but seemed to do better than Sapphire, she was started on a 5 day wormer 4 days ago, today (25th March ), nearly at the end of her wormer she was scouring badly, absolutely full of red worm, dehydrated and very unsteady on her feet. She was taken to hospital to receive vital fluids and has low protein. She will have a plasma transfusion. This is 3 ponies in 3 weeks transferred to hospital. Shocking to have so many poorly ponies at one time.

So far we have paid out around £5,500 for the care of these ponies and there will be more to pay for them.

OPAL & DOMINO

Update - on 12 March & despite everyone's best efforts Opal lost her fight.

Opal and Domino were both brought in from the Cardiff area a day apart after receiving calls from concerned members of the public on finding collapsed ponies. Both ponies are only young a colt & filly

Opal was found on Thursday 4 March, collapsed on a rubbish dump near a water duct, the fire service had to carry her from an inaccessible area to our trailer, she was barely conscious. Opal was made comfortable, she received appropriate vet care & treatment and showed signs of improvement over the following couple of days, later on Saturday she took a turn for the worse and was seen by the vet again. Opal has developed pneumonia due to being in such poor condition and has a heavy, red worm burden.

Domino came into the Charity on Friday 5 March, he has sores allover his young body and he had stones and nails in his feet. Domino's joints were so sore he could barely stand, he is full of puncture wounds and was given 2 different antibiotics and treatments for mites as his white cells were so high.

Today (Monday 8 March) Opal has been referred to an equine vet hospital for treatment, to give her the best chance to get over the trauma she has endured in her short life and we can only hope that she recovers and can enjoy a happy life which she so deserves.

Domino remains in the care of the charity, he has painful sores, but the pain is under control and he is on the appropriate antibiotics.

Both these ponies were born innocent and abused by the people who should have cared for them, they didn't deserve the abuse they received. If you could please help us with their vet fees. We have already had several visits to both ponies and the hospital stay for Opal will be £3,000 to £5.000 and could end up higher (update - the vets kindly reduced Opal's vet bill by around a third).

Every penny donated will go towards the vet care for these ponies and in the event we cover the bills for these 2 it would go towards the vet care of the other multiple ponies brought into our care on a regular basis.

Thank you so much for your support, we are all volunteers and couldn't help these ponies without you xx