A member of the My Lovely Horse Rescue charity responds to an animal in need. Photograph: My Lovely Horse Rescue
“Proper” response times, harsher penalties and a specialised animal crime unit are required to tackle welfare issues in Ireland, the head of advocacy at a horse rescue organisation has said.
Kerry-Anne Pollock of My Lovely Horse Rescue says it receives a lot of calls in relation to abandoned animals, often left in fields without food or water and sometimes tethered.
The rescue centre deals with cases of severe malnutrition, untreated injuries, horses in behavioural distress and ponies being ridden and whipped. In some instances, horses must be euthanised due to their injuries.
“It’s kind of bittersweet. You’re putting an animal out of his misery, but you can’t undo the misery that the animal has been through.”
Kerry-Anne Po
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