You have GOT to be kidding me
Mar 03 2010
— OK I just got an email showing that this was apparently an EXTREMELY unfortunate name choice by a lady named Cheryl Luper who is not associated with Storybook Farm in Issaquah. We’ll hope they reconsider – they’ll certainly have better luck with a different name! –
The latest chapter in the Hercules saga…
There are no words…honey, stick to things you can change like your bra size and your hair color. Your reputation is shit and you’re deluded if you think anybody is going to trust you with a rescue animal. And I will follow your ass to the ends of the earth if you try to suck donor money out of people to support your Ferrari habit.
So any locals want to show up to the library and check this out? I suppose there’s a slight chance it’s someone unrelated (even though the name and location are the same) but if so, they need to be tipped off they just chose a name about as bad as Charles Manson’s ChildCare!
And Wendy, if IS you? Start sending Second Chance Ranch $350 a month to take care of the horse YOU dumped, you know the one YOU should have provided “sanctuary” to in the first place! There’s a good first rescue for you – your OWN horse that you SHOULD have taken responsibility for.
Cremellos in the kill pen, check it out!
Mar 02 2010
My apologies to those of you who have nightmares every time I post these reports, but PLEASE forward this one to your ignorant friends who STILL think color will keep their foals selling well and safe.
IT’S A LIE. A BIG, FAT LIE. THEY ARE NO SAFER THAN SORRELS!
Please, please, please, do not breed your stallion this year if he does not have a solid record of accomplishment in a competitive discipline. I don’t care what color he is. I don’t care if he’s a fuschia and chartreuse zebra-striped sabino. Don’t do it!
Think of your young stallion like you’d think of your teenage son. Sure, he wants to breed! They all do. But I’m guessing most of you would advise your sons to delay marriage and children until after finishing school and getting a good job. That way, the kids will have a much better life, right? You don’t want your grandchildren living in a studio apartment in a crappy part of town, do you? That’s all I’m asking you to do with your stallions – develop the stallion and his accomplishments first. See if he really has what it takes, compared to others. I swear, if I see one more horse pimp rubbing their hands together, gleeful at the fact that 2 year old colts can breed, I’m gonna throw up. Your stallion has his whole life to breed mares – get that competition record on him FIRST!
Oh, and to the people who brought the adult, unbroke broodmares to the auction – congratulations. The fact that you were too damn lazy to put 30 days of training on them sentenced them to death. Good job, asshats! None of us can predict the future, so please, if you own unbroke broodmares, make this the year you get them started under saddle. You do not have to be trainer of the year to get them to walk-trot on trails and that is enough level of accomplishment to save many of them from the slaughterhouse if things go bad for you. There is no excuse for anything, stallion or mare, to only be a breeding machine and given that fertility is not endless, it’s not safe for them to only be a breeding machine. If they are sound get ‘em broke – just in case and before you are in money trouble and have no choice but the auction.
February 27, 2010 Auction Report, Tofield, Alberta Canada
Buckskin five yr old green broke pregnant to draft 430…meat buyer
Ten year old Quarter Horse bay mare nice but a little scared. Ridden. ..400 Private buyer
Shetland geldings driven and broke. Cute with light manes tails. Four and six yrs. 125 each. Private
Shetland gelding ran in 25 meat buyer
Mini sorrel cute ridden mare 180 private
Welsh team driven geldings seven and ten yrs grey and b/w pinto. 325 each private
Shetland black and white pinto broke ridden and going well. Four yrs. 200 private sale
Bay mare six thoroughbred broke with paperwork ahanahan. Ridden and went well. 370 meat buyer
Bay gelding well broke ridden jockey club reg thoroughbred. Seven yrs 700 didn’t sell him
Belgian team driven geldings 14 and 15. Going well and handsome. 950 ea picked up their feet. Private sale
Grey gelding qh registered ridden roped and cattle went well not for beginner 750 private
Black ridden gelding qh cross ten well broke anyone can ride. Calm brand on left hip XS (x on top, s below) 1050 private
Grey gelding morgan arabian gelding. Warned Will pull when tied, thirteen yrs. Went well. 550 lady rode him. Owner kept
Quarter horse seven sorrel mare. Broke but fast. Riddden responsive went well 500 owner kept
Buckskin gelding. Ridden and going well. Three yrs or so they dint say. Pretty head nice horse. Picked up hooves. 1100 owner kept
That was it for saddle horses…now saddles sold
Mexican saddles. 300 picks one..300 picks two. 300 all the junky Mexicans were gone 250 for the last one
Then unbroke horses
Black Quarter Horse two year old no white, registered. Run in scared but pretty, good weight 250 meat buyer
Chestnut Quarter Horse 2 year filly run in star marking good weight pretty 260 meat buyer
Standardbred four year old no papers not fast enough to race but broke. Let around 9DN3E brand on neck 300 meat buyer
Sorrel grade stud with halter chased around 350 meat buyer Walter – straight to slaughter
Cremello tobiano yearling filly application there yearling ok weight 90 meat buyer
Palomino mare Quarter Horse papers promised Nice looking, run around yelling for foal selling as grade pretty good weight 385 meat buyer
Cremello yearling same as earlier one a little heavier meat buyer Les
Cremello tobiano mare registered seven bred. Chased around with rope halter ok weight 300 meat buyer Walter…straight
Cremello mare reg papers good weight 285 meat buyer
Palomino six year old paint mare registered run around friendly and petted led a bit 270 meat buyer straight to slaughter again
Black paint filly year old 180 registered meat buyer
Paint mare palomino pretty four year old Quarter Horse cut on knee not bad registered a little thin 270 meat buyer straight to slaughter
Pretty palomino yearling filly. Run through 140 meat buyer
For the Hercules fans!
Mar 02 2010
How SUPER cool is this?
Gorgeous original painting of Hercules for sale
I am truly blown away by this. What a beautiful painting of one of our favorite boys! This is an original and there’s only one to be had, but I’m going to ask the artist what she thinks about putting this on t-shirts for Herc’s many fans. As I’ve noted before, Second Chance Ranch does great work and helps so many Thoroughbreds in need in the Pacific Northwest, a truly scary place for Thoroughbreds as typically they work their way up the west coast, running for less and less money every time, until the day when they are free for the taking. Many of them wind up at the game farm as lion food or in Canada’s slaughterhouses. These horses need all the help they can get, and even small donations are extremely welcome. Remember, a bale of hay feeds a hungry horse for 3-4 days and you can buy that for $10 – what many of us will spend on lunch today.
I’ll have another blog entry coming soon but I had to share this ’cause it’s just too cool! What beautiful work.
For his part, the Herc man is still relaxing and rehabbing. He’s been packing on weight and I really will get new pictures on my next visit, but he’s looking good. He wasn’t quite sound enough to ride yet the last time I went to see him so we’re hoping for this month. He does have some quirks and naughty personal space issues when he’s loose in the arena, but we know he’s been round-penned (a 17 hand TB, good grief) to excess in his past life, so that does not really surprise me. He feels better all the time and really puts on a show during playtime – this guy can buck and fart like a 2 year old! The feet are looking so much better. If you missed this update, it turned out he never had white line disease. He had a keratoma that was removed. This is actually good news as it is not a chronic condition, so his chances are good that the hoof will be 100% healthy again.
Anyway – if you’re interested in having Herc on your home or office wall – go for it! And thank you to Studio Callidora for this wonderful donation!
And if you haven’t yet become a fan of Herc on Facebook, here is the link: Become a fan of Hercules
The President of Freaks R Us
Mar 01 2010
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=wi&vol=app%5C94-1746&invol=2
http://www.pet-abuse.com/cases/860/WI/US/
http://www.fox11online.com/dpp/news/Rachwal-sent-back-to-mental-institution
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?v=wall&ref=search&id=1625623660
http://mhwf.websitetoolbox.com/post?id=4359214
If you like a smaller horse and want to lead the way on the trail, consider Harmony, a Quarab mare who is up for adoption at Shiloh Horse Rescue in Nevada. What a cutie! She was narrowly rescued from being a sandwich and is sound, rehabbed and ready to go.
Curtis and Craig Haydon, come here…
OK, Someone out there knows these sad excuses for human beings. It’s your job. I want them publicly humiliated in every way known to man. Go to their church? Great, tell everybody what they did. Print off the web page! Live in their neighborhood? Awesome! Make sure all the neighbors know the whole story!
Craig Heyden lives in Roswell, Georgia. Curtis Heyden lives in Woodstock, Georgia.
On a happy note – for those of you looking for a show prospect, check out Angel Acres’ Tango! I love this guy. He just has a nice, kind, “I’m going to be a great amateur horse” way about him.
Obviously I’m … pooping?
Feb 26 2010
Happy Friday! I’m super busy but I had to share this one! Here is the ad.
#1 – Really, you couldn’t have waited two minutes to take the picture?
#2 – That’s not a halter horse butt, but I see he did get the halter horse post legs.
#3 – I know his neck is set on low, but a fat “nest” does not make for a pretty western pleasure horse. You might want to pick up a QH Journal and compare those pictures to your horse. One of these things is not like the other!
#4 – Whoever crossed the Obvious Conclusion son on a Hancock bred mare…I hope you learned from your mistake. This could be described as the worst of both worlds. Except that he does have a cute face – I’ll give you that.
#5 – Again, people, if you’re standing it at stud, you can’t spend a little time actually grooming it, and maybe pose it somewhere with less livestock in the background?
I suspect he’s a nice boy. He just has that “I’m a nice boy” look on his face, and nothing about his stance or expression leads me to believe his handler’s in any danger of being eaten for lunch. But this is yet another one that needs to be a much-loved open show gelding, not a breeding stallion!
Oh, and folks? It is just tacky to have a Free Dogs Page on your web site and claim you don’t have time for them when you apparently DO have time to breed horses willy-nilly. C’mon. Lame.
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