Marat, an Asian wild horse foal at the Minnesota Zoo, found a new and unexpected mother in Alice, a domestic Pony of the Americas ...

The owner of several malnourished animals who would caress her sick horses and lick away mucus in their eyes was arrested for felony animal cruelty, an arrest affidavit said.

Four horses have died and a dozen more have turned up sick at a North Carolina stable, and officials are searching for a source of the illness.