Horse living on corn and saltine crackers now in care

Bootsy is similar a shot living at Panhandle Equine Rescue Horse living on corn too saltine crackers similar a shot inwards care — Bootsy is similar a shot living at Panhandle Equine Rescue.

A neglected Equus caballus similar a shot inwards the attention of an equine rescue grouping inwards Florida was surviving on whole corn too saltine crackers.

Panhandle Equine Rescue said the four-year-old mare, named Bootsy, had eaten everything inwards her pen too was pushing the fighting downward trying to become to grass.

It said the investigation into her illustration is beingness handled past times Escambia County Animal Control. Panhandle Equine Rescue said the grouping was told of Bootsy, who was living on a belongings inwards Nokomis, past times the beast command officeholder working the case.

“We were told that the possessor would give upwards the Equus caballus to rescue,” a spokeswoman said.

“We went out to await at her yesterday too agreed that she needed to live removed from the property.”

Bootsy was voluntarily surrendered to the charity.

“After nosotros picked her up, nosotros took her conduct to the vet too similar a shot she is resting comfortably at the Panhandle Equine Rescue facility.

“She is a real sugariness daughter too then real thin, only she is fighting to survive.”

Bootsy spent her commencement v minutes inwards a paddock at the charity’s facility licking too biting a mineral block.

“She did non pay attending to the other horses or her novel surroundings; all she could mean value virtually was those minerals that her trunk was craving. It was actually sad.”

The charity reports that Bootsy is doing well.

“She volition become used to dissimilar volunteers coming out too acquire that she volition live fed everyday too that her stall is a practiced house to be. She is a footling nervous too unsure, only it won’t live long too she volition become used to the routine.”