THE ISPCA recently orchestrated the rescue of an injured young pony abandoned on the side of the Sugarloaf mountain in Co Wicklow.

ISPCA Chief Inspector Conor Dowling responded to a call made to the ISPCA’s National Animal Cruelty Helpline by a concerned member of the public and walked a vast area of the mountainside, covering nearly eight kilometres before locating the pony. It was immediately obvious that the pony was injured and extremely lame.