Sparky
Sparky is a beautiful Palomino pony who was recently rescued from a horse market after the Meat Man had reserved him.
He is the most sweet mannered, adorable little pony and he is so clearly grateful for all the love and care from all of us at Hope Pastures.
The vet has done blood tests for anemia as his colour was very pale, luckily the results later showed that he was fine and that his pale colour was due to him being malnourished rather that anything more serious.
Thelwell took an instant shine to Sparky and followed him around like a little dog, which was lovely for us to see as Thelwell had been a loner since his friend Dante passed away a few years ago. Since then, he has settled in so well, he is such a pleasure to care for.
January 2012
Sparky is in fabulous health and very happy and settled with us, he is
quite a muddy monster at the moment as he loves to roll around and get
himself as mucky as he can! Because of this he wears a coat with a neck
cover on it to help him stay as clean as possible.
Sparky has had a change of diet to help him to chew better as he has only
stumps for teeth due to his age. He loves his new diet which has soaked
Grass Nuts, Sugarbeet and Alfalfa and he licks his bucket clean every
night. His daily feeds are quite expensive but it is well worth it to see
him so healthy and happy compared to when we first found him in such a
poor state.
Spring 2010
Sparky is a different pony to the one we rescued a year ago, he is very full of life and he is now in lovely condition, in fact he may even be a little bit too well so we have now cut his feed down to a weight loss diet.
He is used on pony days as he is so good with children and behaves so well when he is being groomed and led around the school. He adores Thelwell and will neigh out when he is not around, he also protects him especially when we walk Charlie, one of our new residents who has poor sight, in his field he tries his best not to let Thelwell meet him!
Sparky has very flat teeth so needs soaked pony nuts as he can’t chew hay properly but as he eats his feed so fast we have put 2 large round stones in his bucket on the advice of the vet, so that he has to work harder to get his feed in and can’t take such big mouthfuls. This seems to work well and his feeds last him much longer into the night. |
Below: before and after arrival at Hope Pastures
 Waiting by the trailer at the market
 On arrival at the sanctuary
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Sparky looking good, 3 months later
(Aug 09)
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