For months Sunny, a once-noble chestnut stallion, wallowed in a mud puddle in a tiny backyard in a suburb of Dallas, Texas.
He could barely lift his head and was too weak to stand, so he laid down — becoming thinner and thinner — and slowly dying.
Calls to the Lancaster city animal control went unheeded, neighbors say, and Sunny’s owner claims he didn’t have the money to take him to a veterinarian…