UPDATE: Zulu the abandoned horse doing ‘okay’
The Wetnose Animal Rescue Centre is asking anyone who can help identify the people who dumped the horse to come forward.
Zulu the previously neglected and later dumped horse is doing “okay” after he was left for dead in a veld north of Pretoria last week.
“He’s coming along nicely. He’s turning out to be a sweet boy but a little cheeky if he doesn’t get a treat,” Wetnose animal rescue spokesperson Debbie Buys said.
This after Zulu was dumped and left to die outside Cullinan on a dirt road just off the tar road between Sefako Makgatho Drive and Cullinan near an advertising board on 25 June.
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Buys said the horse was dehydrated, starved and badly neglected and within an inch of its life.
She said the two inspectors who first saw the horse thought it was dead.
“He was very thin and dehydrated. When the inspectors gave him water it was as if he was coming back to life,” Buys said.
With Zulu’s condition improving, the rescue centre is now on a new mission – tracing the people who dumped him.
An eyewitness who contacted the centre gave information about a luxury SUV which allegedly dumped the horse.
“His owners were driving an early silver Toyota Fortuner with a 3m long single axle white or cream livestock trailer,” Buys said.
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She said the trailer they believed was rented was “not nearly fit for horses” but rather the kind to transport sheep in.
“There were two horses in the trailer and after Zulu was dumped, they drove off wit the other horse tied down with his feet sticking out between the side bars of the trailer.”
Buys said one of Zulu’s dumpers was believed to be a “very presentable” woman in her 30s who was wearing a pink and white dress while the driver was believed to be an “overweight man” in his 40s who was wearing a leather jacket.
“We believe they came from the Montana side of Pretoria and the timeline we have is between 7:30 and 9:30,” she said.
Buys said called on people Pretoria North to help identify the two.
“We really hope someone saw something we can use to track these people down,” she said.
Buys said attempts to find CCTV footage and contact trailer hire outlets had thus far proved fruitless.
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“We can not let these savages get away with this.”
She appealed to trailer hire companies, motorists with dashboard cameras and those with CCTV cameras along the stretch of the road to come forward.
“Please don’t stop trying to help us, there is still another horse out there at the hands of these despicable people and we are by no means ready to stop looking for them,” Buys said.
Meanwhile, multiple animal lovers have come forward offering to raise money for a reward to someone who can help identify the alleged horse dumpers.
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