Charity
Rescued: April 17, 2009
Passed away: November 1, 2010

Charity, our first rescue donkey, was spotted in a piece of rough ground, tied up with no food or water, very close to our rescue entre, along with a horse and another two donkeys. Immediately the Easy Horse Care Rescue Centre was alerted and had to negotiate to “buy” the animals from the owners as no other option was available to them at that time, the police didn’t want to get involved and due to the condition of the animals it was feared that they would not survive due to malnutrition and dehydration.

Within 48 hours and the help of the public the Centre were able to raise the money to rescue Charity and the other two donkeys, who were subsequently re-homed to a good home, but very, very sadly one of the re-homed donkeys died 5 days later. The rescued horse who was named Star Chance came to live at the Centre.

Charity is around 25 years old, however her teeth had been so badly neglected that she couldn’t chew and digest her food correctly. This is what probably led Charity to lose so much weight, but as with a lot of rescued horses, their history is unknown. Charity also had broken ribs which led the Centre to believe that she had been beaten.