Scared and neglected: The animal welfare association and veterinary office found the gelding “Jacky” locked in a single box.
Now the 14-year-old horse is finally doing better in Vaterstetten.
The veterinary office and the animal welfare association have rescued a completely neglected horse from a single box in Aying.
The veterinary clinic had to look after the 14-year-old gelding "Jacky".
Now he has found a new home in Vaterstetten.
Vaterstetten / Aying
- When the animal welfare organization released Jacky from his box, the gelding's hooves had not been cared for for so long that they rolled forward like toenails that were way too long.
It's an even bigger problem for a horse than for a human: Jacky, 14 years old, stalked crooked and crooked.
The veterinary office ordered the confiscation of the battered, neglected and isolated animal.
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Jacky spent the past year and a half in this single box at Aying - isolated from people and conspecifics.
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After the liberation: the animal clinic has to take care of Jacky
He's doing better now.
After a few days in the animal clinic in Parsdorf, he found a new home on the Reitsbergerhof in Vaterstetten (Ebersberg district).
But his behavior is still reminiscent of the suffering of his previous owners in Aying (Munich district).
“He's only slowly settling in now,” says Isabelle Reitsberger, who has been running the riding school on the farm of the same name for a good 5 years.
Apparently Jacky had hardly had contact with people lonely in a single box for a year and a half.
According to the Animal Welfare Association, he had not seen a vet for eight years.
Muscle wasting, lack of exercise and the misalignment of his unkempt hooves plagued his body that “the poor guy could hardly walk”, according to the Munich Animal Welfare Association.
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Overgrown: Jacky's unkempt hooves caused his legs to misalign.
In the meantime that has also been fixed.
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The animal welfare ordinance requires regular exercise and at least sporadic contact with other horses.
The gelding has to get used to it again, explains Isabell Reitsberger.
A new home for the gelding in Vaterstetten
When the animal welfare association contacted her, she immediately agreed to take Jacky in, "no question at all".
The farm has had experience with this in the past, receives some compensation for food and maintenance, otherwise takes care of the animal on a voluntary basis and has also been able to give foster animals like Jacky a permanent home.
Whether Jacky can stay at the Reitsbergerhof depends on how he gets used to in the coming weeks, the riding school boss continues.
She hopes that a private horse friend can be found as a permanent reference person.
The gelding will probably not become a riding school horse anymore.
His trust in people is too shattered for that.
All news from Vaterstetten and the Ebersberg district at the Ebersberger Zeitung.
