A Vet Freed This Chained Horse, Had No Idea He Would Get The Thank You Of A Lifetime

Jan 18, 2019

Although we often differentiate between humans and animals, we are animals. Even though we're the smartest beings on planet Earth, people all across the globe abuse animals. It's saddening to realize that most dogs, cats, equine, bovine, and other animals aren't rescued from their poor living conditions prior to death.

However, it is nice to hear heart-warming stories about people rescuing abused animals left for dead by their pathetic excuses for owners. You'll never guess what condition this horse was found in...

In the Western world, horses are usually given enough room to roam around freely, food to eat, water to drink, and freedom to do virtually whatever they want as long as they do it inside the confines of the fences that hold them in. 

However, the widespread treatment of horses in the United States isn't how Romanian society treats horses. Horses across Romania are regularly chained by their legs to property owners' land. This is cheaper than erecting and maintaining fences, though it isn't fair to the animals. 

When the Tatars, the people who brought horses to the area, left what is now modern-day Romania, they left quite a few of the animals to live in the wild. For centuries, they trotted around freely. 

More recently, the majority of horses kept in captivity were let loose in 1989 due to co-ops widely failing across the nation. With horses free to mingle with one another, their population skyrocketed to roughly 1,500 in just the Danube Delta region.

Keep in mind that the Danube Delta is a small area, measuring roughly one-sixtieth of Romania's land mass.

Romanian officials allowed people to kill the booming horse population, unfortunately resulting in torturous acts being committed against them. Ovidiu Rosu recently found a horse chained in the Romanian countryside.

Rosu did what he had to do. He cut the thick metal bands off of its legs, revealing that the pieces of metal had rubbed off all the skin in the area. Just as Rosu released the injured horse into the wild after fixing it up, one of its friends touched noses with the vet.

Check out this adorable video - it's so cute!

What would you do if you encountered a horse chained and shackled in the same way the horse in the video was? Let us know in the comments and pass this story along to your friends and family to spread awareness of animal abuse around the world.