The video shows how SPANA is helping donkeys in Morocco, and hot on the hoof of my blog yesterday, SPANA sent an email with more news to show how public help is supporting their work.
Happy Horse lives in Morocco. He works as a taxi horse, ferrying people and goods for his owner. But Happy Horse was having chronic pain in his limbs as a result of the heavy loads he had been carrying on hard roads. The tendons of his fetlock joints were contracted and tight.
Happy and his owner managed to get to SPANA's centre in Chémaia. Here, vets not only treated him to slacken his tight tendons; they also gave him an anti-inflammatory injection, a tetanus vaccination and some antibiotics, and bandaged his legs with clean dry dressings to prevent infection. Crucially, they also gave his owner advice on the importance of not giving Happy too much to carry in future, and giving him regular rest breaks.
Happy is on the mend; his owner is happy because his family couldn't survive without him; and I love these good news stories which show how much people - often on the other side of the world - who are willing to support SPANA can make a difference to animals.
Keep sending those stamps and postcards in!
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