Man saves baby horse, then reunites her with mother

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00:00 She is totally blind but a very gentle, polite horse. I love the way she kisses me.

00:05 I am Max and this is the story for Joe Beats. A friend of mine

00:10 informed me that there is a baby horse, a girl who was abandoned on the mountains of Eastern Turkey by the villagers.

00:17 She was born blind. She was useless for them.

00:21 But they kept the mother because they wanted to keep working the mother. They usually make them carry wood, but lots of tons of wood.

00:28 I

00:30 wanted to save them together. I have lost my mother at a considerably early age.

00:36 I know how it feels for a young person to live without a mother.

00:40 I asked my friend to find those people who abandoned the baby horse and offer them money to sell me the mother as well.

00:47 I purchased the mother and I rescued the baby without any payment, of course.

00:52 It was very hard and tricky to arrange transportation for them. The total drive was more than three, four days with the stopovers.

00:59 Then they came to me, to my farmhouse in Istanbul. Destan was very skinny. She lost weight after being separated from her mother.

01:07 They were always physically next to each other and touching each other.

01:13 Destan is now almost two years old. She still tries to get milk from her mother. Of course, there is no milk, but Sir lets her do it.

01:22 So they are still a mother and daughter and they are still very aware of this fact.

01:28 I was optimistic that she would regain her sight.

01:32 Unfortunately, it turned out to be not the case.

01:36 The veterinarians in Istanbul examined her. They told me it's impossible. She can distinguish light and dark.

01:43 So she acts as if she sees. She can distinguish people based on their footsteps, based on their smell.

01:50 I have many rescued dogs in my farmhouse.

01:53 She knows each and every one of them. When I have a new dog or a visitor, she stays away from that one.

01:59 Do you know what's interesting? My previous horse, Reyhan,

02:02 she had a restricted sight and they look very similar as if they are siblings.

02:07 I even had this strange feeling Reyhan reincarnated and came back to me in a similar shape.

02:13 Sir is still struggling. She never forgave humans.

02:18 Maybe she is okay with me, but she still is very angry at humans.

02:23 He always kept her ears this way when she was around anyone and me.

02:27 I tried to hug her. Of course, she beat me. She didn't know my intentions.

02:31 Finally, after almost a year, when she is with me, she keeps her ears like this.

02:37 Ears up. She is comfortable. Finally, I'm not riding her. I'm not working her.

02:43 I'm not asking her to do anything. They have the freedom to do what they want, when they want, as they want.

02:49 They are not like you.

02:51 Maybe it's because I'm bald. Maybe it's because of the shape of my head.

02:55 Or maybe it's because of the way I smell. I don't know.

02:58 Sir and Destan are always together. Sometimes Destan plays.

03:02 Although she is blind, she knows every corner of the garden and I don't change things.

03:07 If there is a water bucket in a place, that water bucket always stays in that place, in that corner.

03:11 She sometimes plays games with my donkeys.

03:14 And then in the end, she stands always next to her mommy.

03:17 For people like us, animals are persons.

03:20 They are not human, but they are persons.

03:25 [Music]