18/07/2025
Az emberek semmire nem mentek volna az állatok nélkül a történelem során.
At the beginning of the 20th century, more than 70,000 ponies lived underground.
They worked in the coal mines of England, the USA, and Canada.
Small, strong, and docile… ideal for pulling heavy wagons full of ore through the narrow, damp tunnels.
But it wasn’t a job. It was a life sentence.
Many of them were born underground, lived underground… and died underground, never knowing sunlight.
Their bodies adapted to the darkness, and their eyes became useless in natural light.
In the mines of eastern Canada, sad stories are told.
When a pony was taken to the surface, it couldn’t look at the sky. It became agitated, frightened, blind.
Because it had spent so long in the shadows that the light was unbearable to it.
They were invisible workers, in an era when animals were also tools.
None of them ever received a monument.
But every time we turn on a light, it’s worth remembering that not all progress was made by humans…
Some steps in history were taken by small hooves that never learned to look up.
