Three-year-old Kolten barely reaches his mare’s shoulder, but he is far from being scared. Instead, he adorably hugs her leg and covers her in kisses. And the gorgeous Maple, sensing her little owner’s tender age, is extra gentle with him. Mom Melina, 28, from West Virginia, describes Kolten and Maple’s bond as “a mother-son relationship.” “As soon…

A 5- or 6-week-old filly torn from her mother at a South Dakota horse auction led to a desperate rescue, by some good horse people, and a subsequent reunion worthy of a fairy tale ending. All seemed well, initially, when the mare and female baby horse, Lizzie, were sold together at Kramer’s Livestock auction on Sept….

It started out a sad day for a horse trainer at a Friesland stable in northern Netherlands. Yvonne Horjus, 37, who trains and cares for a beautiful, black mare who was pregnant, had not expected the equine would have such a complicated birth. The mare delivered a stillborn in late May, 2021. Yet fortuitously, Yvonne…

Born of tragic circumstances, a beautiful bond has formed between a mare who lost her baby and a foal who lost his mom. The 13-year-old Zangersheide mare named Citty Z lost her first baby two months prematurely to stillbirth. Yet her owners, Iris Pinkster and Sanne Kolman of the Netherlands, were convinced she had what it…