Sam the Horse's Wish to Be Adopted Comes True in Purina's Tearjerker of a Holiday Ad

From The Martin Agency

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Prepare to ugly cry at your desk or shed a few slow rolling tears, all because of a horse named Sam.

In a holiday ad from Purina created by The Martin Agency, Sam the horse is desperately waiting for someone to come and take him home. All the other horses at the rescue and adoption stable find new owners, but not Sam.

After another Christmas comes and goes, the stable owner says to Sam, "Maybe next year" and cuts to an incredibly sad close-up shot of the horse alone in the dark.

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