Meet the resident ponies

	Misty Misty had 5 homes before she was taken in by us. Once a rosette winner before coming to us she had major surgery after a nasty accident and developed laminitis and COPD. She is now much better as the field has limited grazing and we dampen down her feed and she has made a particular friend of Nutmeg.When she first came she was very wary of humans and was difficult to catch but she is now a happy pony and is much easier to handle.

	Marty Marty, a gypsy cob, had already had several unsuitable homes before he was rescued and we were asked to take him on.

	Shabba A black and white older horse, Shabba was taken on by us when his owner divorced and could no longer look after him. He was a trotting horse, but with a slight injury to his left fore-leg he is now retired. He suffers from COPD and coughs a lot unless all his food and hay is damped down. He also has supplements to clear his air passages.

	Nutmeg Nutmeg was destined for the abattoir when – through negligence - she became blind in one eye. She is a very pretty chestnut and white pony and upon arrival received a thorough worming programme - she was full of tapeworms and botts. She was terrified when she arrived but is now confident in her surroundings with just the one eye although she remains very nervous when taken out of her field.She has assumed the role of mother with the small Shetlands she is with and very much looks after them - even breaking up their occasional squabbles.

The Welsh Ponies

An elderly lady died and when her relatives took over and did not want the animals we went in and rescued her ponies, Hungarian Puli dog and her 77 wild cats. We got the dog back from the RSPCA who had taken it away because of negligence and fostered it to a caring home. I asked my friend Celia Hammond to help and she did a brilliant job in catching, neutering , de-worming, de-fleaing and de-absessing the cats before helping us to re-home them. We took on the ponies, Mouse, Sky and Rhett. Their field was full of poisonous ragwort, their stable had a huge hole in the roof, they were thrown white loaves of bread to eat and had not been handled.They were in a pretty poor state when they arrived and the oldest one - Mouse -unfortunately only lasted a few months.