Texas drought leaves heartbreaking toll of abandoned horses

The yearlong Texas drought is taking a heartbreaking toll on horses and donkeys, thousands of which have been abandoned by owners who can no longer afford the skyrocketing price of the hay needed to feed them.



"We get 20 to 40 calls a week that horses are alongside the road and left; nobody's claimed them,"

Richard Fincher of Safe Haven Equine Rescue in Gilmer, in east Texas, told Reuters. "Sheriffs are calling us all the time."

Before this year, he would get more like three or four calls a week, he said.    Read More