Une chèvre sert de guide à un cheval aveugle - ZAPPING SAUVAGE
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00:00 (upbeat music)
00:02 (horse neighing)
00:07 - Where's Charlie?
00:08 (speaking in foreign language)
00:10 This is Charlie and Jack.
00:12 Charlie is a horse that I rescued.
00:15 He's extremely old, he's 40 years old.
00:17 He's lost the sight of his eyes.
00:19 When he lost his eyesight,
00:21 we decided that we would put him down.
00:23 But we didn't get a credit to the relationships
00:26 among our animals.
00:28 Because as soon as Charlie lost his eyesight,
00:30 Jack, our old buddy who was 16,
00:33 he couldn't continue seeing Charlie's eyes.
00:36 (dramatic music)
00:38 One time, there was a tornado and there was a migration.
00:43 (dramatic music)
00:46 Jack came to the house screaming.
00:53 And it's like he was trying to tell us something.
00:55 He started to walk in front of the door,
00:57 and so we opened the door and he just went to take off.
01:00 And what we found was that the tornado
01:03 had hit a tree in a circle.
01:06 And my blind horse in the middle of it,
01:08 and there was no way for him to get out.
01:10 So Jack had to show his time to God
01:12 is to go help his buddy,
01:14 because he couldn't lead Charlie out of that.
01:16 After that day, I've no longer worried about Charlie.
01:21 (dramatic music)
01:30 The reason I knew that Jack knew that Charlie was blind
01:33 is because when Charlie lost his eyesight,
01:36 Jack would lead him in his sight.
01:40 When Charlie lost his sight, he was completely blind,
01:42 Jack started to walk in front of him.
01:44 There's a patch of grass that grows in the back
01:51 of the property, and it's hard to get.
01:55 And for no apparent reason,
01:58 Jack will take Charlie back,
02:00 he lets him run the race,
02:02 and when Charlie's done, Jack leads him back.
02:04 When they're leading back,
02:05 typically they're going to be foraging along the way,
02:07 but he doesn't do that.
02:09 He stays on the trail.
02:11 He lines up up in front of Charlie,
02:13 keeps Charlie within 10 or 20 feet of him,
02:16 and he runs him slowly.
02:18 Charlie can tell the difference
02:24 between Jack's footsteps
02:26 and the ones of the horses or the men.
02:28 Charlie knows those footsteps like his own heartbeat.
02:33 Once Charlie had Jack passed from the trail,
02:55 he changed his mind.
02:57 He knew Jack was going to lead him
02:59 to a place he was familiar with,
03:02 and he was good.
03:04 We say that humans are only ones
03:11 with the instinct of compassion.
03:13 I say that's wrong.
03:15 I say that some men are more compassionate than others,
03:18 some animals are more compassionate than others,
03:20 but they're all capable.
03:23 We all have the same instinct,
03:25 Jack gets nothing in exchange for this relationship.
03:28 Charlie can know that he's protecting him
03:30 or providing for him,
03:31 so what Jack is happy to do
03:33 is protecting his friend.
03:34 Period, end of story.
03:36 There is no Charlie without Charlie.
03:42 All of the things that an old-sided horse had,
03:46 he has a very strong relationship with an old goat.
03:49 After 16 years of friendship,
03:51 Charlie was very upset.
03:53 Jack walked up to his friend
03:59 and put his head down,
04:01 and he turned around.
04:03 And the way he went home surprised me.
04:06 I kind of expected him to have an emotional reaction,
04:09 but he really didn't.
04:11 He was very calm,
04:13 and he was very quiet.
04:15 He was very quiet.
04:17 But he really didn't.
04:19 He turned around and he went back home down the trail.
04:22 And when he was finished, he went to his favorite place
04:24 and now he was done.
04:26 At first I thought maybe he didn't understand
04:31 that Charlie's gone,
04:32 because he's never left his side.
04:34 And seeing Charlie lying down like that,
04:38 he would have gone crazy.
04:40 But he didn't alarm.
04:41 He just kind of went,
04:43 "Okay, old friend, it's over."
04:45 And very quickly he went down the hill.
04:48 I don't want people to know the story of this book
05:02 and this story of Pass Unknown.
05:04 They say that animals are just muscles and bones,
05:07 and the only thing that interests them
05:09 is to feed themselves.
05:11 I mean, who would think that a goat
05:13 could spend years taking care of a blind horse
05:16 for the only reason that this horse needed help?
05:20 These guys have so much more to live than that.
05:25 They will give you no credit for it.
05:27 We buried Charlie in a corner under the trees
05:32 where they ate now.
05:34 And you could go there in the afternoon,
05:36 and Charlie would be working,
05:37 and Jack would be laying in the sun.
05:39 That's where we put Charlie.
05:41 And soon, Jack will join them.
05:44 [music]
05:46 (upbeat music)
05:49 [BLANK_AUDIO]