Horse dad adopts recently rescued mare’s long lost foal after discovering they were separated by the shelter, resulting in heartwarming reunion between mother and son, horse dad says: ‘Mariah and Candy literally won't leave each other's side.’

Laurent Shinar • Writer and Editor

Apr 4, 2026 8:15 AM EDT

If you thought horses did not care for the young they produce, then you are in for a tearjerker of a story as a long lost mamma and her foal come together for the first time since birth.

When we adopt dogs and cats we do not often spend much time thinking about the litters they may or may not have had throughout the years. After all, when they reproduce it is in quantities larger than are manageable for us and for them. But we have never given thought to what it must be like for larger animals such as horses who only give birth to one baby at a time.

Surely they have a deep bond with their babies, surely it is not the same as our feline and canine friends. Well, as it turns out it is not the same and they love their young dearly as we have come to find from this heartwarming horse story. So we invite you to leap into one of the sweetest reunions in the animal kingdom as a baby horse and his mother are reunited for the first time in years.

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Wow, this kind of feels like one of those sappy movies where the man and his horse have been through everything together. They have ridden through the mountains, galloped through the plains, escaped the grasp of the law. And now after all those years of dedicated servitude on the horse’s part the hooman has decided to dig deep and give the horse the greatest gift she could ever want. The kind of gift that changes her life forever and completes her. We are literally on the verge of tears reading this wholesome story, and soon this mama and her child will be together forever, just as they always dreamed about.
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Well, we are glad that this hooman is not going to immediately push this horse to be a show pony. Sure, we do not agree with any animal being used by hoomans like this. It is simply not ok to take advantage of their good and kind nature for our gain. But we are delighted that even though we do not see eye to eye with this horse pawrent, they do at least see the delight in bringing these two horse souls together. They say that there is nothing more noble and free than the heart of a horse. Well, just imagine how full that noble and free heart will be when it is reunited with its missing piece.
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