The story about mare Kasta that lives in Lapovo will bring TEARS TO YOUR EYES (PHOTO)

Mare Kasto, which had wonderful racing future in front of her, did not allow to be taken to her final logging, in the barn with no return. Smallish and weak donkey Miki were no so lucky. As in fairy tales, where some force does not allow unrighteous ending, in the tragic story of these two animals, who brought people nothing but joy, one Balkan horse asylum "Staro Brdo" from Lapovo stepped in. Because of them, after this story there won't be a tear on the face or bitterness in the mount. Or it might be?

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The best friends mare Kasta and donkey Miki were taken on the road with no return, but... there are all seeing volunteers of the horse asylum! Legs cut by the ropes, face torn of the whip hitting, stabbed chest and all beat up, Kasta remained to lie helpless in the park.

Zeljko Ilicic, in charge with the horse asylum, said that Kasta and Miki are friends, they lived together in a park, and brought job to children and grownups that came there just to see them.

Someone had a sinister idea to take Kasta and Miki by fraud and lead them outside the park, said Ilicic.

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- Miki then entered the trailer and was dropped off in a small and stinking barn. Kasta did now allow to be taken away. She refused to enter the trailer because she felt that she will never come back from that place alive. They did not manage to take them  by no force or tools. Legs cut by the ropes, face torn of the whip hitting, stabbed chest and all beat up, Kasta remained to lie helpless in the park and wait for her death, right there where she spent her life - said Ilicic and adds:

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- Luckily for her, before the malefactor has finished her, random passers intervened, took away his fork and called the police. Poor animal survived despite blood lose and dozens of wound.  With the efforts of a volunteer of the park where Kasta lived, she was transferred to our asylum. No one ever again will raise their voice at her, and let alone whip or fork. Unfortunately, Kasta is only one of the small number of horses who had the luck to be saved. 

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And no, the donkey Miki was not forgotten! No, because the volunteers of the asylum in Lapovo, even do they barely survive financially, they do not forget donkeys.

- Fortunately, we arrived to him and evacuated him before he died. From a wonderful animal that played whit children in the park, it became a pale shadow of former self in just a short time. In wounds, losing hair, wounded body and dreadfully overgrown hoofs, young Miki let him self go to the destiny. Every step was like putting nails in his hoof. Eyes hurting from daylight. Not trusting anyone anymore. It will take lots of care, attention and interventions on hoofs to get him back closer to normal. We will give our bast to bring him to health and give him a will to live - promises Ilicic. 

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Telegraf visited the horse asylum "Staro brdo" in Lapovo for the first time right before opening almost a year ago and reported with how much sacrifice group of volunteers lead by Zeljko Ilicic works, who did not only give his love and work, but also great part of his property for the area where horses taken from the slaughterhouse could run free. Asylum buys the horses and "snatches" them on the way to the slaughterhouse, then puts them in the home, brings them to health and gives away as a present. But, no matter how much love the animals need, they can not eat love.

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- There will be less and less horses ins our asylum with the current situation. Financial situation is a disaster, in the few spring months we did not gather enough resources to support a single horse, let alone all of them that are here on the collective care. Or personal resources have depleted, we have nowhere else to go - concluded Zeljko Ilicic and adds:

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- Our personal resources have been depleted, we have no where to go. It doesn't take much, it is enough for each of us to give up one coffee a month or half a pack of cigarettes, and that would be enough to maintain the existing horses and to save a few more every month. It's not such a big sacrifice if we all work together. The few of us that are still in the asylum are at the end of our strength, we got no where else to go to - said Ilicic.

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(Telegraf.co.uk / M.R.)