Crosskennan Lane appeals for help to raise funds to treat rescued horse

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This picture was taken in N.Ireland August 2008.

Crosskennan Lane Animal Sanctuary in Co.Antrim has been a charity since 1996 and deals with animal welfare issues on a daily basis. However, when Lyn Friel, the sanctuarys founder and manager, got a call for help last weekend nothing could have prepared the CLAS volunteers for the shocking sight that awaited them.
An elderly horse was reported to be wondering aimlessly in the Mallusk area, and when he was eventually found he was soaked through and was nothing short of a walking skeleton. The fact he has survived in such a poor condition is a testament to his will to live, and it was decided that because of this he would be taken back to Crosskennan where everything possible would be done to give him the best chance of recovery.
At CLAS he has a lovely deep clean bed and gets small warm mashes (as he no longer has teeth to grind hay or grass) fed to him every two hours, day and night, to gradually reacquaint his body to food.
The sanctuary have been told by several people that this old horse was one of the horses that helped Mickey Marley to bring his famous roundabout to Belfast city center, giving joy to a generation of children. Mickey, who sadly died in 2005, would have been shocked and appalled to see how his once doted on horse and companion was left to die in such a heartless way.
In Northern Ireland only 1% of horses end up in a permanent loving home! The rest become surplus to retirement and get sold on from home to home, losing value until they reach their 'beef' price and get taken to the slaughter yard. A once well loved horse can very easily, through injury or behaviour problems, be displaced into the welfare system.
If this old horse, now named Marley, that gave so much happiness and was held in such affection can end up being left to starve then what hope have the rest. Horse owners should take heed; be responsible for their horse's life and death when the time comes and allow them to die with dignity and without pain.

Crosskennan Lane Animal Sanctuary is appealing to the public for help to raise funds to pay for the expensive treatment required for Marley to make a full recovery

CLAS desperately needs funds to enable it to continue its vital work. The public can help in many ways; by hands on volunteerins, holding fundraising events, helping at bag packing in local supermarkets, distributing collection boxes, administration, general maintenace at CLAS, sponsoring an animal, donating good quality blankets or food and many more ways.

Please contact us if you can help in any way
Crosskennan Lane Animal Sanctuary
028 9446 5384
crosskennan@hotmail.co.uk