Pet charity Blue Cross has seen an unprecedented rise in the number of lone foals being found abandoned and fear that irresponsible and unscrupulous breeders may be dumping them because they are considered to have a low value. Blue Cross has recently taken four foals into its horse centre in Burford, Oxfordshire, one of which was pitifully just six-weeks-old and barely alive. Foals are usually weaned from their mothers at around six to eight months of age, when they are capable of surviving on their own. Unfortunately this wasn’t the … Continue reading Blue Cross saves abandoned foals