A BLIND horse has struck up an unlikely friendship with a camel who acts as her seeing eye guide.

    The two animals live together in the same enclosure at the traveling Pony X-Press Zoo based in Winslow, Maine, the U.S.

    Owners Ed Papsis and Candis Veilleux said their horse Dolly, who they have owned for 10 years, recently started to lose her vision and she is now almost completely blind.

    Papsis said the zoo’s camel Caesar was in need of a companion so they decided to introduce them and the two animals quickly became inseparable.

    Caesar, a 5-year-old camel, now helps Dolly move about in their shared pen and in and out of their barn.

    “We put the horse in there and she just kind of bonded with him and he bonded with her,” Papsis told WGME-TV.

    “She’s probably the only horse that has a seeing eye camel.”

    The owners said Dolly was teaching the younger “rowdy” camel how to behave before her vision deteriorated completely.

    “She kept teaching him right, and wrong, and how to act, and as she lost her sight, she depended more and more on him,” Papsis told WABI TV.

    “He would kind of be her eyes as far as if she was lost and couldn’t find something, he’d bellow to her and she’d whinny back and they’d come to the feed bucket or whatever they were looking for.”

    The zoo owners, who take their animals to fairs, schools and nursing homes, said most horses would be euthanized if they were completely blind because it can often be too difficult for the animal.

    (SD-Agencies)