NICHOLASVILLE, Ky. (LEX 18) — A Nicholasville nonprofit that cares for neglected and abused horses says their phone has been ringing nonstop.

The caller is Animal Control.

“The calls have picked up; they seem to come when you least expect,” said Carrie Wood, the executive director of the Kentucky Equine Adoption Center.

Wood said their most recent guest include two young foals and their mothers.

“The mares were down hundreds and hundreds of pounds, and the foals, honestly, they probably only had a week or two to live,” said Wood. “They had severe rain rot throughout their coats, they had bacteria growing, they were just in really bad shape when they arrived on the farm.”

The mares were so malnourished that they were unable to produce milk for their babies.

“We knew their real mothers

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