Rufus needs his own paddock

RUFUS NEEDS A PADDOCK – he’s walking the round the stables but it’s a concrete floor and hard for his poor feet. He looks longingly outside – but we can’t let him go out in the fields with the other ponies because Rufus is a stallion pony. His pals get turned out every morning but he has to stay in.  After all those years of being shut in with nothing to see, he yearns to be outside.  There’s a lot of anxious whinnying when the other ponies trot off.
Rufus can’t go with them because he was never gelded as a young pony – part of the neglect. Like cats and dogs being neutered, it’s usually done when the pony is between 1 and 2 years.
The vet has told us that he’s not well enough and too frail now to have it done.

What Rufus needs is a grass paddock of his own, then he can go out on the soft grass and at least see other ponies. He’d be next to them.
We have the space, the perfect place at the back of the stables.  All we need is the funds to fence it off and put a gate on. It would transform this little pony’s life. He’d still come back inside at night but having fresh air, exercise and being able to eat grass would help him to recover.

Most of all, it would give him a natural life and, after so many years of loneliness, the will to live.
What we need are fence posts, horse netting, posts, rails, a gate, a fencing contractor and – most of all, your help to achieve this.

Buy Rufus a fence post for £3.00?  Please donate on FundRazr if you can.  (or by direct donation – cheques payable to Pet Samaritans please) Many thanks.