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Cremellos in the kill pen, check it out!
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
And the loser is…
Whenever I post a story like the one about Hercules (original blog here), I know that there are those of you in my audience who would like to believe the best in people. You think, well, maybe his owner was very poor, or sick, or died. Maybe they had no choice at all. Maybe they were young and just didn’t know. You want to believe there’s some reasonable explanation for their beautiful old horse winding up in a kill pen. Then there’s me — I’ve been in rescue long enough to know that a lot of people JUST SUCK. They’re greedy, they’re selfish, they take the easy way out and to Hell with the suffering they cause. After finding out who dumped Hercules and his little white donkey friend, I have had that belief confirmed once again.
Yep, it only took days before I was able to confirm with multiple sources who recognized the horse and were able to describe the woman and her facility perfectly that the person who’d had a big bay Thoroughbred matching Herc’s description on stall rest with a little white donkey was Wendy Hsue (formerly Wendy Jones) of Storybook Farm in Issaquah, Washington. Wendy, shown at left, is no starving teenager – she’s the wife of an affluent, albeit shady, dentist named Kuzi Hsue. Here she is riding poorly on her new toy, a Haflinger. Poor Haflinger, I hope someone else buys it before IT gets old and broken! Check out the heart bodyclipped into its butt. I guess that heart means “I love you as long as you’re sound and able to compete.”
Wendy has a lovely, leased facility called Storybook Farm (assessed last year at $1.8 million dollars) and an approved Swedish Warmblood stallion called Cinzano that she has had in dressage training and been showing (yep, Wendy – not broke!), but somehow, despite having no lack of funds or facilities, Wendy could not bring herself to provide for her old retired show jumper, Hercules, whose real name was – get this – “Tiny.” Nor could she stick a crowbar into her wallet and pry out the equivalent of one lousy designer handbag to send Tiny over the Rainbow Bridge in a quick and painless, vet-assisted way. After trying unsuccessfully to dump him on Craigslist, because after all there aren’t a lot of homes for a lame 17 hand horse that will eat you out of house and home, off to the auction he went, along with his little white companion donkey.
Here’s the ad – helpfully saved by someone else who thought it was sad that Wendy was dumping him!
Goofy giant looking for retirement home. – $1 (Issaquah)
Reply to: sale-j5bzq-1251959656@craigslist.org
[Errors when replying
to ads? ]
Date: 2009-07-03, 9:15AM PDT
17.2H, bay 18yrs TB gelding, he is a total charactor and fun to be around.
Tiny was an upper level event horse (3rd/4th level dressage jumped 5+’) but
has an injury, not lame but not sound for competition. Really looking for a
pasture type retirement home for him. Only maintenance he needs is shoes and
hay in the winter. He is like a big dog comes when he is called, loves on
everyone and tries to play all the time. Good with other horses but
terrified of minis, they chase him. Email me at wmkjones@msn.com or call
425/463-8575
* Location: Issaquah
* it’s NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial
interests
PostingID: 1251959656
The story is just an endless sea of weirdness. She claimed to love this horse, and had owned him for a long time, in fact, ever since he left the track – but thought it was perfectly acceptable to end his life by taking him to Enumclaw and telling Ron she wanted him to go to kill! I cannot wrap my mind around how you can even BE that fucked up in the head.
Well, Wendy, from what everybody tells me, you LOVE to be the center of attention. So today, you get to BE the center of attention, right here on the Fugly blog! In fact, I will personally proclaim you the Asshat Queen! Look, you’re royalty!
So here’s what I have to say:
- Good LORD, your jumping sucks. This poor horse more than deserved retirement for the rest of his life for putting up with how you ride, if that pic at left is any example. From what I hear, you ran him into the ground, rode him lame, crashed him over jumps etc. and that’s why he’s so f’ed up now. Congrats. Good job, you waste of peroxide.
- Not everybody loves you. I know! I know, it’s just so hard to imagine for your cute little blonde self, but there are people out there who think you’re a jerk and who gleefully ran to me with all the info about how you left YOUR OLD SHOW HORSE at Enumclaw to be shoved into a double-decker and driven to Canada. Just how comfortable did you think your 17 hand horse was gonna be in a double-decker, Wendy? Did you ever think about that? I just can’t get over how someone justifies to themselves that this is an acceptable way to “dispose of” their old show horse. WTF. Did you sell your soul to the Devil in exchange for your cushy lifestyle or what?
- If you are trying to make a horse disappear quietly, taking it to the Enumclaw auction is kind of like putting it on a VH-1 reality show. EVERYBODY SEES IT THERE. Also, I hear you’ve been a frequent flyer at Enumclaw, so EVERYBODY THERE KNOWS AND RECOGNIZES YOU, TOO. Wow, wouldn’t coughing up $400 for that euth and disposal have been a heck of a lot better bargain than the damage to your reputation from this little drama? I don’t delude myself that I can convince people like you of the value of doing the right thing. If you were going to do the right thing, you would have on your own, because you could have never lived with doing what you did. I only hope to convince people like you that $400 is better than winding up on this blog.
- Kill buyers like Ron have loyalty to one thing. It’s green and has a dead President on it. When Ron tells you a horse is “kill only,” he means “unless someone else offers me more money in which case I will grab it and giggle all the way to the bank about how I scammed the silly bleeding heart rescue girl.” In any event, it’s totally irrelevant because at that point, everybody had already seen and photographed your horse in the auction pen. The story about him was on the Internet before the auction was over. Welcome to 2010 and modern technology!
Oh, and one last helpful tip, Wendy:
When you know that you are about to be featured on the Fugly blog, and don’t tell me nobody gave you the heads-up that most of the PNW was looking for the villain who dumped a huge bay gelding and a little white donkey at Enumclaw — not like THAT happens every day — you might want to move into “damage control” mode. Telling your husband to pull down his posts on the Ferrari Owner’s Message Board would have been a good start. Owning a fucking Ferrari but refusing to pay for euthanasia or continue caring for your old show horse makes you both look like bigger douchebags than Jon Gosselin.
(Isn’t it funny that I compared Herc to a Ferrari in the original blog? Ah, irony! I didn’t know you had an ACTUAL Ferrari that you cared about way more than him!)
Oh, and since I know you will run around saying the horse was crippled and you were just trying to “put him out of his misery,” I’m gonna get some video in a few weeks because we’ve got the darn horse better than 90% sound and we haven’t even given him so much as a joint supplement yet!
Who needs coffee this morning?
I am sending out a $25 Starbucks gift card to whoever can solve this mystery!
I am absolutely positive that some reader of this blog knows who this horse is. Here is what we know.
– He was rescued from the December 2009 Enumclaw Auction, so he probably came from Washington or Oregon.
– He is a true 17 hands (we sticked him) and is a tattooed Thoroughbred gelding. We are having trouble reading it. He is in his 20’s.
– He has had white line disease and his right front hoof has been resected. The farrier did an excellent job.
– No sign whatsoever of any abuse or neglect. A bit thin but we believe this horse has been living in a barn.
– We are positive he is an old show horse. You can clip his ears without a twitch and he loves being bathed and fussed over.
– He has not, however, been shown in a long time as his bridle path has been allowed to grow out fully and his whiskers were very long.
– When he arrived, he was aggressive and it seemed to be pain related/defensiveness. He bit Ron the kill buyer in the shoulder at the auction. What a good pony! 
Now, he is a SNUGGLE BUNNY. Someone has taught this horse to give hugs – if you hug him, he wraps his neck and head around you and squeezes. He is particularly affectionate with petite women and children.
– He has some pushy behaviors on the ground and will try to whap you around with his head if he doesn’t want to stand still.
– Even lame, he is an AMAZING mover. AMAZING. If he wasn’t an A circuit horse, it was not for lack of talent.
– Ringbone (obvious) in hind right.
– VERY playful. When you turn him out, he pulls stuff off the walls to play with, knocks over my trainer’s stuff, anything he can reach is fair game.
I want to know who this horse is. If not for Second Chance Ranch, he would have gone to kill. Ron marked him as “kill only” thanks to the bite.
I also suspect that he has an old owner who loves him. I just have a feeling about it. I also have a feeling that the other people at the barn he came from have NO idea that he went to auction.
So get your week’s worth of coffee and out the asshat(s) – extra credit for proof, i.e. pictures of him at his previous location or with whoever dumped him! Who the hell sent this awesome horse to die in a slaughterhouse? They KNEW where he was going with that hoof. And why? Sick of paying the vet? What? This is a Ferrari that was nearly crushed into a cube, and I want to know why and who was responsible.
Click below for even more pictures.
Enough doom and gloom…how about a Happy ending?
There has been a lot of drama in the PNW horse rescue community over the existence of the Auctionhorses message board, which was developed to help coordinate the rescue of horses from the Enumclaw auction. Basically, the point that’s been made is that (a) sometimes when people save at the last minute, they don’t do so with a long term plan for how to care for the animal and (b) damn, that board is full of some of the worst known bottom-feeding horse neglecting ignoramuses that aren’t welcome anywhere else, and people are funding their idiocy.
I think (a) is true of most rescuing and it’s arrogant to assume that when person A acts on emotion, they’re going to make better judgment calls than person B. I’ve seen plenty of experienced rescuers who ordinarily have good judgment go off the deep end when faced with animals that ARE going to die if they don’t intervene. Almost everybody in rescue over-does it financially from time to time. It’s very hard not to. The pressure is always on you to save just one more, and the donors are at fault too – they donate very willingly when a horse is going on the slaughter truck tomorrow – then you can’t pry a dime out of them 3 months later, nor do they want to foster the horse or help in any way. Try to get someone to show up and clean stalls – you’re lucky if five percent of your rescue’s supporters ever pick up a manure fork. It’s not glamorous, and you don’t get attention for it. Everybody wants the rush of the Big Save and all of the attention that goes with it. When you start saying no, not taking any more, as I have done and several good friends have done, then you are a jerk. This is true in every kind of rescue. I have all but put a sign on my car saying Not Taking Any Cats Right Now and yet a day does not go by when I do not receive an e-mail begging me to take just one more. Anyway, I don’t know any way to fix that problem. Charitable donations are fueled largely by emotion and emotion often clashes wildly with common sense and good judgment!
As to (b), oh, it’s a totally valid criticism. But the folks there will have to live and learn and get burned just like everybody else did by those people. There’s no way around it. Let’s just say that if a half-dozen people are telling you that someone is bad news, you might want to take note of that before you buy them a rescue horse they can’t otherwise afford.
That said, and given that I’ve been criticized for publicizing the Enumclaw kill pen horses, as if somehow merely talking about it made me responsible for everything in there that might get pulled by a not-so-great home (give me a break, I talk about horses in need every week), I want to talk about an extremely happy ending from the October auction. Here is my original blog from that day.
Eeyore was lot #408, a skinny and sad looking Thoroughbred gelding originally identified as a mare. He had a big ankle and a sad look. There was a handwritten note on his stall suggesting he would make a good hunter/jumper. Maybe with a leg transplant! Eeyore sold for a whopping $85. I sure hope the asshat who dumped him enjoyed the $20 profit they pocketed after their gasoline and the auction listing fee. They walked away, and Eeyore was left where most old Thoroughbreds with a big ankle are left – in the auction pen awaiting the truck that would have taken him to Florence Packing, where he would have been quarantined for a few weeks before going to Canada and ending his life in a slaughterhouse.
This is the kind of horse that frequently does not get rescued because people believe that horses this old are unadoptable, especially ones that have an obvious injury. I have seen many people argue that we should only use our resources to rescue young, healthy horses, but this story is a good example of why I disagree with that.
I liked Eeyore and I raved about Eeyore to a friend of mine here in Los Angeles. She decided to bail him out for Second Chance Ranch, and even sent him a brand new plaid waterproof blanket to help him stay warm and gain his weight back. Katie at SCR had Eeyore for just two months. By Christmas he was not only fat and happy – and renamed Mr. Happy in testament to his outstanding disposition – but he was home safe with his new owner.
This is the ex-lot-408 with his new Mom, who loves him very much – precisely because he is old, sweet, sane and predictable! As you can see, he is living very well and has regained every bit of lost weight. He turned out to be completely sound despite the old, fused ankle, and since all she does is light riding, it is a perfect placement for him. He lives at a lovely boarding barn that has many other Thoroughbreds and is just the light of his new owner’s life.
So, here’s my take on things like the auctionhorses board…proceed with caution, always, and use a little common sense and check people out before you blindly send money. Sending money to a reputable rescue with an overall good track record is always going to be a safer use of your money than sending it to a private individual with iffy facilities and a questionable reputation. Whether you’re in Washington, Georgia or Arizona, just use a little common sense about where you send your money. Look for someone who has a proven track record of success in rehabilitation, and who can show that they make good placement choices. The happy endings DO happen, and it’s totally worth trying to make them happen!
Just ask Mr. Happy!
Do you have a recent happy ending of your own for a rescue horse – particularly one that many people would have called unadoptable? Feel free to post about them – leave me the direct link with no tags and I’ll make it into an image – we still haven’t figured out how to make your images show up.
Auction Report: British Columbia
3 year old reg QH filly, BRED for a may baby. Partly bagged up, HUGE belly, dropped, looked close to foaling p/o #$300
QH/Percheron gelding, kids’ lesson horse, rode through, very skinny, in his 20’s body score of 2 sold for $25
Grade quiet gaited gelding. Rode through, body score 3, start of DSLD? sold to trail riding outfit
Quiet reg QH dun mare, 2 year old. Cute, good weight. No sale
Monty, teeth floated Swollen sheath TB/Morgan, bcs of 3 $175 KB
Reg QH bay mare, 8 year old, nice looking been used as broodmare $325 rode through
4 year old sorrel reg QH mare. Used on ranch, well broke, swung a rope off it, $1000 to trail riding outfit
6 year old paint, rides good, good weight no sale @ $1000
2 year old Reg QH filly no sale @ 450
10 year old Morgan cross, rode through, good weight $450 kb?
Cute cute older white pony, kid rode through $300
Grade 11 year old rode through, good shape $350 kb?
3 year old roan Hancock bred, used on ranch, very nice, no sale at $1050
4 year old, huge build rode through, good weight no sale $900
Tall 10 year old 16.1hh appy geld. Sold for $350
Jet black geld. Kid rode through, older horse $350 sold to trail riding outfit
Fjord 12 year old rode through $550
Lead through grade $300 kb
Rode through reg QH, real quiet 3 year old no sale @ $275
ancient grey draft x, kid rode $150 didnt see who bought
blind in one eye appy, rode through, used on dude ranch, was rode in a halter, real quiet mare no sale @ 350
22 year old body score of 2 QH geld. Lady bought him for $75
Bay mare, rode through, 19 years no sale @375
13 year old stocky reg QH geld, rode through, looked like a hot horse. Sold $750
Black mini mare, bites $250
15 year old Standardbred gelding, raced and sound but had huge scar on inside hock. Rode through $500
Skinny gelding bcs of 2, bites, sire Couer de Lion. Reg. sporthorse. (took video) $150 to kb
17 year old rode through grade gelding $350 KB
Extremely skinny $25 (see video)
Appy, thin, 20’s, used for gymkhana $350
The Pre-Enumclaw Report!
First of all, for those who are local and want to participate in rescuing horses from this sale, a site has been put together to discuss the topic and post live updates from the auction:
http://auctionhorsesonline.webs.com/
So let’s do an update on last month’s horses – at least the ones we know about that went to blog readers.
309 – Alaska Bowtie (shown). This guy is definitely the Cinderella story of the group. Thanks to a breeder who cared and a blog reader who spent a great deal of personal time making phone calls and making this happen, he was swiftly removed from the kill pen and is now enjoying his let-down time from the track at Polestar Farm. They are working on fixing his long-toed racetrack feet and, after his vacation, he will begin being evaluated for a second career. This is exactly how we would like to see all of them end up. What a shame there are not enough of these homes to go around!
312 – Boston Lady Jewel, registered APHA mare. This big black & white broodmare is already well on her way to her second career. She turned out to be extremely quiet and sensible and as a result has already been started under saddle and is riding at a walk and jog. Her amateur owner plans to put her into professional training in 2010 and take her to the Pinto shows. This particular mare is just a super high quality mare who almost slipped through the cracks. It’s amazing what we are finding out there. I have no doubt she’s going to have a very successful show career. 430, the super friendly big two year old TB filly, is at the same home and will not be doing anything but growing up for awhile. Her owner reports that she likes to put her foot in the water bucket. 
Someone got 318 out. She was not in the kill pen, but I don’t know who that person was. Same with 321.
325 was registered Arabian mare Szizzle. She has completed quarantine and is going home either this weekend or next. Her new owner talked to her old one who confirmed that the mare, and I quote, rides great. She was dumped for having the audacity to get kicked in the pasture and go lame. I love people, they are awesome. Szizzle is stuffing herself with lovely hay and will get a workup by the owner’s vet after she goes to her permanent home.
323 was registered Arabian Seaside Dawn Delight, shown. This lovely mare is safe and is up to date on everything now. She turned out to be a daughter of a U.S. and Canadian National Champion Stallion, EA Echstravagant. She’s only halter broke, but kind, sound and six years old with no issues other than a need for training. Very cute mover! She is currently available to an approved new home as the person who bailed her is having to take several returns from a buyer who has had personal issues, but she is safe until she finds one. She’s in the Bellingham area – email me if you’d like to check her out!
331 was registered Arabian Lady Mayphair. She is sound and in great condition. She was dumped by someone who had only recently purchased her – we heard the whole annoying story. This mare needs a home with someone who will put the training on her to keep her out of future jeopardy. She has decent ground manners and longed nicely both directions. She has completed quarantine and is ready to go. She’d be great if you want a rescue that does not hav a lot of stuff to fix – condition is not an issue here. 413 is at the same home – she’s an early teens Arabian mare, no papers, pretty and sound, who seems to have some training but has not yet been evaluated under saddle. She is also available. E-mail me for info.
334 was young Arabian gelding Bazkheno Devinci. This guy is a doll! Just another who only needs to training. He came down with pneumonia but was quickly put on antibiotics and is recovering well. Purchased by an out of state partnership, they have struck a deal with Cowgirl Spirit to take him on for training and placement. You may recall that Cowgirl Spirit also has Ready Say Go (shown), the $50 stallion who had raced only the previous weekend. He got gelded in the sale yard and has been recuperating. He dropped weight like crazy in his few days at the sale yard and from the stress of gelding, but is currently stuffing himself with timothy hay and alfalfa pellet mush. He has healed well from gelding and is starting to be turned out with other horses, a new experience for him and one that he greatly enjoys! He got new shoes and is basically just hanging out, hoovering up food and enjoying his post-track vacation. Cowgirl Spirit can always use your donations if you’d like to help pack the weight back on this beautiful boy!
405 and her foal are back together and a blog reader tells me her feet have been done and she is getting great care. The foal is for sale (but will not be leaving until January, time to properly wean) and you can e-mail me if you want the contact information.
402 has completed quarantine and is heading off to training in Renton. He is not showing any unsoundness, although his feet are awful and the owner is currently arranging for a farrier who can help him. He knows nothing. Thanks, former owners – you suck!
408, Eeyore, is in foster care and rapidly regaining weight! He will not be sound. He needs a pet home – fortunately he is a big pet with the disposition to be a total pleasure to have around. Please contact Second Chance Ranch if you have one to offer. The tattoo is very hard to read so no ID yet but he’s believed to be 25. 417 is also available – she is an older TB mare, in great condition, sound and has been used for lessons in the past but needs a tune up. 435, the beautiful Private Account mare, is also with SCR and could use a foster home able to put some training on her. She is sound and just needs a job! 439, Ruling Flame, is busy gaining weight and will be evaluated under saddle when he has picked up enough. I think that boy is someone’s old show horse, he just strikes me that way. Very people oriented and carries himself like he is proud of himself! The latter two, shown, are IN LOVE and might be a perfect adoptive pair for someone who needs one quiet broke horse and one project.
461 went home and schmoozed up to his new owner’s husband. She is no fool. She is in her forever home.
And the unfuglybelievable colt I pictured? He got bailed out by a gal in the office. He’s safe. She got the big Appy/draft too.
Now for some good news about this month! Thanks to a tip, this time there are three OTTB’s that avoided the sale. This is not the last you’ll see or hear about these three horses, but I wanted to put them out here because Second Chance Ranch has taken them in and they could use your donations. Any little bit helps. Our hay is finally down to a reasonable price so about $8 buys a bale to feed a horse for several days. And yes, I will be following up on who dumped them – you know I will! I will tell you that I’m pretty sure it’s a repeat offender who has been mentioned on this blog before. The horses are Packed House, Face of Excess and Starryeyedprospect. They are in poor condition and are seeking good, local foster or potentially adoptive homes that are experienced with Thoroughbreds and with rehabbing a thin horse.
I know everybody loves to be part of a “save” but if you have space, please consider fostering or adopting one that is already out. If you can offer training, your help is just invaluable. To me, putting a horse on the right track for a successful life is the ultimate in rescuing. Anybody can fundraise, but the real work begins later. When you take something that is only halter broke and six months later it rides, you REALLY rescued. That’s the most important and kindest thing you can do. If you have the skills, and a place to ride in the winter, please think about making space for a project!
