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Lapo, Ester, Neri and Rebecca: thanks to your response to our survey we have given names to the Catania rescue horses!

24/04/2013

(24th April 2013)

Do you remember the story of the four horses who arrived at our Centre on 17 January? They were seized by the Catania police from some illegal stables, discovered thanks to an investigation by Striscia La Notizie.

They had no names, no passports, and up to that moment their lives had been shut away in a dark, poky garage, coming out only to race along asphalt roads or to provide entertainment for kids with no respect for other beings.

This treatment left its signs on them, in particular on Lapo, the biggest of the four: horrifyingly emaciated, with two legs very swollen from falls and knocks, full of grazes and scars of old wounds which had been only inexpertly stitched up.

We launched an appeal for funds, and also a poll to find names for them: now, today, we give you the results, together with a photographic account of how they have changed in just three months.

So in these pictures – Meet our friends!

LAPO


ESTER


NERI


REBECCA




Please continue to give us your help to look after them, and to guarantee them a future far away from suffering. As you read in our first article, the Public Prosecutor of Catania had imposed a condition on allowing us to transfer these horses to our Centre at Montaione: that we did not ask for any reimbursement of the costs whatsoever.
This is a crazy situation which we are contesting in the appropriate quarters, but meanwhile each and every donation is precious: please support us by distance-adopting Lapo, Neri Ester and Rebecca!
Find out how here



Related articles:

Arrival of the horses at Montaione, 17 January 2013

Striscia transmission of the arrival

Striscia transmission of the actual seizure

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