Mobile phone firm agrees to pay for horse's upkeep

A SCHOOLGIRL’S heartfelt letter has convinced mobile phone company ‘3’ to save her beloved horse after she
discovered a marking identical to the company’s logo on its neck.
Phoebe Bone, 11, was faced with losing her nine-month-old foal because her parents could not afford to keep
him. Parents Melanie, 39, and Lee, 42, were shocked to find their new horse Lily was pregnant. Having used
their savings to buy Lily, the couple soon realised they could not afford to keep the horse and her foal, Bertie.
Bertie would have had to go up for sale during a time when few people can afford to take on a horse and some
owners have even had their animals put down.
Phoebe wrote a moving letter to bosses at ‘3’, telling them about her special ‘number three’ horse and begging
them to save him. She wrote: ‘He [Bertie] is really sweet and funny and I love him so much. ‘I know that I said that
I would sell him but I can’t, not now. Now that I have got to know him and he is really good for me.
‘Everybody says that he has good manners for a foal and they say that it is because of the way that I am with him.
‘My Mum and Dad do not have lots of money, my Dad is a plasterer and my Mum doesn’t work because she
looks after my brother. ‘I would really like to keep Bertie but I don’t think that my Mum and Dad can afford it. ‘I
was wondering if you would like to use his pictures in your adverts or if you would like to sponsor him and maybe