INKA - NEVER AGAIN

On November 8, 2006 we received a call from SEPRONA (Service for the Protection of Nature) warning us that there was horse in terrible conditions to be rescud in the village of La Anoia.

We got in touch with a trucker, and we sent him to pick up the animal. By phone they gave us the first bad news, she was a mare in the last phase of malnutrition, and she couldn´t rest one of her back legs on the ground. We were fearing the worst, so we asked the veterinary to be present at the moment of the mare´s arrival. When she arrived our fears were completely confirmed.

The mare, a beauty of only six years old, had a double fracture of her right hind leg, it had been an open fracture, but it has closed in false, with a terrible added infection. That gave us an approximate idea of what she had suffered during all this time, closed in a enclosure without food, only with the water left by the rain, and surrounded by pasture totally out of her reach. We only had to look at the pictures to feel rage. What had she done to be condemned to this horrific death full of pain and hunger?

We are not going to say what we would do to her owner, if we could because is “politically incorrect”. We couldn´t do anything to help “INKA” (it was the name in her documents, with just only a vaccine when she was six months old), we only could give her a handful of hay that she couldn´t finish, because the anaesthetic made effect before, and she finally escaped the suffering and hunger forever.

Please, horses' friends, if you see cases of negligence, mistreatment, or abuse, denounce them to SEPRONA, or to the Police department of the pertinent City Council, or to us, because these cases have to stop.

It is impossible not to see those cases, we really prefer to make a visit for nothing than to arrive too late. Don´t think that this is an exceptional case, unfortunately this happens quite often. We have a Protection Animal Law, so help us to enforce it. L.

DONKEYS´S EDEN

When we rescue a mistreated, humiliated and ill animal, his recovery is really difficult. And moreover if he is old, so then his possible adoption is still more complicated. But if they are donkeys... they have an opportunity in the donkeys´ Eden, and that is Lesley Ann and Peter´s Eden. What is true is that this wonderful couple are incapable to deny acceptance to the most mistreated of the donkeys. I don’t know if this is due to the angelic voice of Leonor asking for help, or if their hearts are more generous than they have never imagined, but in reality the nine donkeys they have accepted in their home have truly known paradise next to Lesley Ann and Peter.

For us to know that donkeys are going to be accepted in this home is the best of gifts.

Not only they will recover, but they will have the opportunity to end their life and also to know that all human beings are not equal. In this Eden they forget the mistreatments, the humiliations, the hunger, the illness, and will finally find affection, respect, dignity, and they will sleep every night with their stomach full. They will finally find peace.

After recovering their weight and health at the Retreat (see pictures in the Animal Protection Law article), Pepa and Luna are ready to go to Lesley and Peter's place.

We know for experience that this is not easy at all, to have these animals, and moreover when they are sick, terrified or full of bad habits... to achieve a good cohabitation needs something more than good will. And more when they are donkeys, because they have a strong character, but they are at the same time very funny.

Not only Rodrigo, Oscar, Isabel, Jenny, Sofia, Paqui, Manolo, Barry, Pepa, Luna.... want to thank you, but the whole ADE team is very grateful for your great effort and enormous generosity. M.


In Eden the days are mild