‘Here to Help Hotline’ Leads to Greener Pastures for Rescued Mare

By DARLA M. YOUNGS
COOPERSTOWN

For years, a good Samaritan watched two horses living in a pasture visible from his property, offering to help in any way he could when their owner eventually passed away last fall. One of the horses, a stallion, was sold and reportedly did not survive the winter. The second horse, a malnourished blind mare, found her way to the good Samaritan’s home, where she was fed and nursed back to health over the winter months.

As the kind-hearted man prepared to sell his farm and realized he would be unable to keep the mare—whose name is Buttercup, and who the good Samaritan later discovered to be pregnant—he sought help in turn from the Susquehanna Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.