Since it is Remembrance Day today, perhaps we can spare a thought for the Brook Hospital. It was started in 1930 because Mrs Brooke, a diplomat’s wife, saw the old warhorses that has been brought out to Cairo, Egypt, by the British during the war and then sold into hard labour - very few were repatriated, thousands had to stay. She set up a hospital determined to buy each and every horse, and she did, and took care of them. And extended the work to all working animals.
The work continues today, in many parts of the world where donkeys and horses work as beasts of burden, often until they fall down from exhaustion.
But the Brooke is continuing its work of educating and offering veterinary assistance.
As Christmas approaches, we could look at their website … they have a good page of gifts. Now and then they put on a ride in an unusual part of the world.
