Ms Maddie Doyle:

Just because of where My Lovely Horse Animal Rescue is based, we generally tend to receive and respond to calls within the Dublin area and the surrounding counties. We have a representative from Cork as well who deals with Cork, Waterford and Limerick. There are large numbers of calls that come from urban areas on straying horses and horses on council land and they are often in severe states of neglect and starvation. That could be from a lack of feeding, lack of worming, lack of veterinary care or injuries that have not received any treatment from a vet. A lot of the calls come from urban areas.