Tiny pony in trouble

[bunn]

Yesterday evening when walking hounds I almost fell over a very young foal (maybe a few days?) who was on his own and in a very bad way, not able to stand, obviously distressed and covered in flies. 

I phoned the emergency number on the park gate, and got a confused lady in Truro, who (after a long delay where I hung about while the hounds whinged about how it surely must be teatime by now) passed me to Cornwall Council Animal control, who (after another long delay when the hounds appeared to have given up hope of ever going home and went to sleep on the grass)  passed me to the RSPCA, who said they would make it a priority case, leave it to them.

  I was rather expecting them to call me back for more directions, but they didn't - however, the foal was gone this morning, and I'm pretty sure he wasn't in a state to walk out of there, so someone must have taken him.  I hope he is OK.

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[bunn.livejournal.com]

I do have some sympathy for the RSPCA - people expect them to do so much, and theeir brief is so HUGE.

But I've heard a lot of bad stories too, and they do refer people to Oldies which is a bit... 'you are HUGE rich charity with pro staff & centres! We are tiny tiny poor charity run on shoestring by volunteers : you expect us to help when you can't???;

I will probably give them a ring this week to see if I can find out if they picked the pony up (I guess it is possible that someone else found him after me and just took him away unilaterally), but didn't want to do that at the weekend.