Defeated horse goes through incredible transformation

Defeated horse becomes the strong, beautiful animal he was always meant to be ❤️

[chandarussell]

As someone who has spent her life around horses it just makes me so angry to see a horse in this condition. If you can’t look after an animal ask for help or give it away to someone who can look after it. You don’t just leave it to wither away. I’m so glad to see this horse was rescued in time.

[corneliuscrewe]

I’ve said this elsewhere, but it bears repeating. I’m a person that has been afraid of horses all my life (I’m 52), but my wife LOVES horses and has wanted one all her life. Long story short, she acquired and elderly rescue horse that was every bit as skinny as this poor fella. The day we got him, I went with her to help unload him where we are boarding him with a friend of hers. It had been a long day of traveling and visiting their farrier, so the poor old fella was plain tuckered out.
They needed to check him over, so I plucked up my courage as best as I could, overcame my fear and held his lead rope while they were looking him over and cleaning him up. I don’t know what he sensed, but he laid his head on my chest like it was the first kindness he’d felt in a very long time and damned if that horse didn’t worm his way into my heart on the spot. Despite my fear, I couldn’t help but love on him and reassure him we were going to take care of him and he was going to be OK.
Fast forward 8 months, and we’ve got him filled out as far as the vet and our boarder thinks we should take him for his 28 year old frame. He’s looking so good now, the people whom we acquired him from who had initially rescued him did not even recognize him until we were talking to them about him at a local gathering.
That horse awakened something in me I didn’t even know was there, he has changed my life. He may not have many years left, but I am determined they will be happy ones, and I now know that is what I want to do the rest of my life. Even if I can only care for one horse at a time, I will be caring for horses that desperately need to be rescued for the rest of my days.

[christelrosenberg]

Crying so much. So much sick people in the world treats animals so cruel. Lucky there are people like you. You are a hero.

[kristinLB]

I clicked on this and was in tears within seconds. I can’t take any amount of animal suffering.

[andymurph]

So glad he survived. Every animal deserves to be loved

[gregdickerson]

It's heartbreaking to realize ANY human can be so heartless and cruel to an animal that counts on his owners for care and love. Thank God he was rescued.❤️❤️❤️

[Periwinkleblue.]

How a person treats an animal reveals whats really in their heart. I'm so thankful rescue missions like this exist with folks who do it for the love of animals. Watching Dasher run for the 1st time gave me goosebumps. ❤

[kristinh]

I have a lump in my throat. I am so very thankful for rescues that save animals like Dasher.

[deborahs]

As soon as he found he was loved, his will to live returned. He is so happy, running in the field!

[sofakingcute]

Crying my eyes out at how abusive humans can be towards animals. Thank you for saving him, we need more beautiful humans like you! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[TheDewhite]

This broke My 💔
How can anyone hurt helpless animals of any kind 😔 😢
Thank you so very much ‼️

[sixmercer]

I LOVE this video SO
We gave our old horse (my baby) to a therapeutic riding program.
A year later since I'd lived so far away (it was when my parents divorced and sold the house and I was the main rider who had to leave home because I was going to college).
I had to look for her and no people were around. It was all run down and I didn't see any horses.
My horse was a 16h palomino so she wasn't east to miss. But with her huge head a pony sized ears and Disney black eyes I could have spotted her miles away in a giant herd full of palominos.
I finally found her. She was all alone in an outdoor pen with a carppy lean-to for "shelter". She was standing with her head down and her front legs really far apart in ankle deep mud and urine and manure. Her bright eyes were dull and I went up to her and burst into tears.

She had something called Navicular, which is a bone in the hoof that gets inflamed and causes a ton of pain. She needed to be specialy shod in shoes with heel bars and pads evert 6-8 weeks by our farrier which my mom was sending them money for. She was also supposed to be on light shavings for bedding or grass, and her feet had to stay very dry.
She was on a grass hay ONLY diet because anything richer would aggrevate her hoof. They had a big stack of bales of very old wet moldy alfalfa hay that I don't know if she had the ability to even get to in her state. It had been stacked right up against the fence for free feeding all day as much as she wanted (and the one thing this horse loved most was to eat).

I called my mom in hyperventilating choking tears and told her to call her vet to have him drop everything and come put her down. My mom was busy and didn't seem to comprehend how truly serious this was and she couldn't be expected to face another hour like that let alone another night and day.
I ended up calling the vet myself. He was there within the hour because he had been her vet through all 3 owners and even delivered her as a foal. She had a stillborn baby that he also delivered and so he had a great fondness for her. A personal one. He cried when he was putting her down. What a terrible way to send her off after she was....well, she was quite a handful, but for ME a fun handful.
I wonder how long she stood in that corral off by herself with zero contact from anybody and fending for herself. She had a filthy electric waterer which was the only way she stayed alive sadly.

Apparently that program had lost their license and geez who knows, I don't care. They tortured and abused ny horse through severe neglect and made that beautiful light in her eyes go out. How could they? How DARE they?
I'm 48 now and that still wakes me up with bad dreams and I definitely have PTSD after seeing her like that. I wish my mom had checked on her. She got remarried to the love of her life only 6 months after she divorced my abusive dad and so she was off in her happy world without a though or care about the past. But she should have gone back to that place every month to HAND them their check for the farrier and to check on how my horse was. If I wasn't so far away I would have been there as often as possible because the one thing I lost in their divorce was my future in riding and the horses I grew up with and one I trained and took to the US National Eventing Championships and brought home a personal first place. But I was never going to be able to afford the lifestyle in horses at the level I was at.

Anyway, I checked on her as soon as I could and I couldn't wait to see her. It was awful. She was 19. And no horse deserves that. Especially her. I hugged her face and cried and cried and just loved on her and ugh. Yeah. Look at how bright thus horse's eye got even just when he knew he had been rescued. Even when all he could was lay down and not even lift his head to eat hay. His light came back on within and shone right through his eyes and his expression. Beautiful.

This video made my who year. I'm saving it. Thank you for sharing him and his journey with us. And thank you...thank you so much for saving him. 💗

[deanthomas]

As a trainer I have often volunteered my time with the equine rescue centers and I'm always appalled at the condition and neglect of the horse but this has to be the worst I've ever seen. You did an amazing job and oh my gosh he turned out to be so beautiful. My hat is off to you.

[seeker]

That was tough to watch. But there's nothing more gratifying than seeing the light come back into an animal's eyes that had lost hope. God bless the rescuers ❤️

[brianmartin]

The world needs more people like you. God bless you 🙏🏻

[JanColdwater]

I don’t understand why people just don’t take care of the animals they have, and if they can’t, find a rescue place BEFORE things get that bad! Poor baby! So glad he made it by the grace of god and the people who have a heart. Thank you! ❤

[Gokes]

Horses have proven their resilience to humankind for thousands of years, they've earned & deserve our respect and admiration for all time

[anthonycooper]

God Bless you people for rescuing this beautiful horse, and saving his life!

[fdkqrcc]

I loved seeing Dasher running in the field at the end. God bless him with a long and happy life!❤❤❤

[DSWood]

Thank God for you! I was thinking, "what are the good enough words to say to this person?" Here they are: "I thank God for you. Thank you!"