Santico Story

On October 16th at nightfall, Sabine Schnatz, a friend of the Foundation, calls us to pick up a wounded and abandoned young horse in a field in front of Sea Horse Ranch. We then leave the trailer to bring the injured horse back safely and heal him. 

Sometimes we have to act discreetly because some horse owners do not want to have their animals treated so that they do not have to pay for the care. Sometimes they let us heal and want to recover after, of course for free. Today, Angela proceeds differently. Armed with the new Dominican law against animal abuse, when we are notified of an animal in difficulty, Angela first contacts the “fiscal” magistrate in charge of public issues, in order to be legally covered by the authorities and obtain permission to take the injured animal and treat it at the foundation without the owner can not oppose it, or claim it later.

So our young wounded, Santico, arrives at night at the foundation with a huge hole full of worms in the middle of the face, his eye almost out of his cavity because of the violence of the shock. Immediately Angela goes to work to clean the wound and see the extent of the damage. Can we save him? The wound is very deep and probably comes from a fall during which Santico was injured with a piece of wood. He is very weak because the field in which he was grazing was very dry and almost without grass and of course without water.

The next day, after a tetanus puncture, the daily care begins and it will take 6 months to Angela and his team to recover Santico in full health.

Today, Santico lives in a field near Perla Marina under the responsibility of Sabine Schnatz, his whistleblower who took him under his wing.