Happy Christmas at last for pair rescued from squalor
Horsetalk.co.nz Della, left, and Mary at the smallholding in Carlisle. © The Donkey Sanctuary Staff at an equine charity have seen a “heart-warming” transformation in two neglected donkeys who were found shut in a filthy stable strewn with manure and thick mud. Following a tip-off from a concerned member of the public in the days before Christmas last year, welfare advisers from The Donkey Sanctuary found Mary, 17, and her daughter Della, five, living in squalid conditions at a smallholding near Carlisle in the north-west of England. Their hooves were extremely overgrown leaving them in...