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A 10-year-old Chandler boy who offered to donate his miniature horse for a charity auction will get to keep his pet, thanks to two generous bidders. Last week Andrew Jentlie, who has diabetes, made one of the toughest choices in his life. He offered to give up Zig-Zag, his miniature horse for the past four years, to be auctioned in a benefit for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.

On Saturday Andrew's parents, Paul and Denice Jentlie, brought the animal to the foundation's fund-raiser in Phoenix. Nearly 900 people attended the black tie affair. Two Valley families pooled resources to purchase Zig-Zag with a winning bid of $6,000. But they did so on one condition - they wanted Andrew and the horse to stay together.

Little Andrew Jentlie did this sacrifice by giving away his miniature horse, Zig-Zag, for charity in order to raise money for the diabetes foundation. But after the charity auction the buyers not only paid $6,000 dollars for this horse, also gave the horse back to Andrew. Andrew's family were excited to hear this news, and Andrew was ecstatic and said to his mother about the horse: "We're stuck together like glue forever."

The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation sold many more items along with this miniature horse and raised more than $2 Million dollars to find a cure for this disease. Andrew doesn't want to stop here in aiding this diabetes cause, he wants to help more. He is willing to take Zig-Zag as a therapy horse to the hospital, similar to therapy dogs, which will boost the morale of the patients. Miniature horses are under 38 inches tall, or about the size of a large dog.

You can see the relative size of the horse with the humans here (not the same horse with Andrew):