Please listen for her whinney!! This is how Annie greets me every time she sees me! Being faced with raising an orphan foal is not an easy task. Our orphan Annie lost her mother during the birthing process. Foals orphaned at a very early age should be adopted by a nurse mare, a foster mother, (if possible) and/or supplemented with a milk substitute. Luckily, we were able to give her a foster mom! There was another mare at the barn (seen in the background of this video) that happened to have her

Annie the orphan horse became such a lover of people and animals here at the Sanctuary. Because she struggled so much to live and had so many setbacks, she had to be handwalked daily and couldn't be put in a pasture to run. She had a hernia that needed to be repaired and that was done when she was a year old.. Thus she got to meet all the other animals at the Sanctuary including 30 horses, donkeys, mini horses, sheep, goats, llamas and she befriended them all. And above all, she loves people so