ABANDONED BABY FOAL SNUGGLES UP WITH BIG TEDDY BEAR EVERY NIGHT

 

The following story is from last year, but I never got to post it.  It's a moving story showing animals' need for love.  I'm sure you'll enjoy it.

The Care Bear: Teddy takes on role of mummy after foal is found abandoned

• One-week-old pony Breeze was found searching for his mother
• Rescuers failed to find his mother so gave him the teddy as a surrogate
• He was found collapsed from clinical shock and dehydration, but he can now be seen nestling into the bear's fur for comfort

Photo Daily Mail
 

Newborn foals rely on their mothers to provide everything from food to motherly affection.

But after Breeze the Dartmoor Hill pony was orphaned, his cuddles have come from a 4ft teddy bear, which rescuers have given him as a surrogate mother.

 

One-week-old Breeze was found abandoned on Dartmoor National Park on May 24 when he was just a few hours old.  He had been wandering without his mother and attempting to suckle on other mares before rescuers found him collapsed from clinical shock and dehydration.

 

Despite a search of the area for the mare that gave birth to Breeze, his mother could not be found.  Rescuers nursed Breeze back to health at the Mare and Foal Sanctuary in Devon, and he was given the cuddly toy to snuggle up to in the absence of a mother.  The giant bear lives with Breeze in his stable and the young foal can be seen nestling in to its fur for comfort.

 

Read more and see pictures 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2333745/The-Care-Bear-Teddy-takes-role-mummy-foal-abandoned.html

Mare and Foal Sanctuary website
http://www.mareandfoal.org/

Breeze is in training at this facility waiting to be adopted
http://www.mareandfoal.org/about-us/horses/
 

 

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