I have people/traders/slaughter buyers ask at the sale barns “What do you plan on doing with that one?” Or “If you can save her, what then?”
Most of the time it’s with a smirk grin on their face.🤦🏼♀️
I just smile and say “Give them a life you’d know nothing about”.
Then I give them the same smirk grin. (Of course that’s how you get popped too, yeah thats happened before)
Now can we all appreciate the transformation and the love this girl has to give ❤️.
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We have no evidence as to what happened to this girl, unfortunately she couldn’t tell us.
Why would a horse this well behaved, this adorable, with nice shoes all the way around, be in the situation she was in?
Why didn’t someone get her to a vet?
Can you imagine the pain?
I had her vetted, had the shoes removed, I cleaned her up, fed her plenty of nutrients her body needed. After months of rehab this girl was ready for a new home. This baby deserved so much more than she had received.
Thank you for helping us help horses like this one. We can’t save them all, but we will give it our best and show them all the love they deserve
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I had someone in the comments from my post yesterday about this girl ask “Why assume this is cruelty or neglect?”
I get it, she doesn’t act head shy, so she wasn’t beaten. However, my thoughts are she was once loved very much. This baby had shoes on, nice shoes. This baby was well mannered, she loaded, she stood tied, she picked all four up, as soon as you touch her leg, you could crawl under her……she didn’t care.
Buttttt, something happened and someone quit caring. They quit feeding her, they didn’t care for her wound, they didn’t have her vetted, the barn I picked her up from was going to let her just stand there and die.
Now after she was once loved, she was neglected and to me that’s abuse.
I’ll post her update later today.
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The lack of concern, discarded because she’s “just” an animal 🤦🏼♀️. And yet we consider that man part of the human species.
I had gone to pick up a little filly (whole other story) I asked the kill pen operator if f he had any others, I saw this girl tucked in a back stall, left to die.
I ask him “How about that one”
His reply “ You don’t want that one, she’s about 1/2 dead”
Me: “She is exactly the one I need, because she needs me”.
Side note: Now that I’m pregnant, I do wear gloves more. Before hand though, you probably wouldn’t have wanted to see me deliver a calf that was turned the wrong direction.
Thanksgiving for Bertha Bell and Big Momma
Bertha Bell : Girl come on it’s eating time
Big Momma: I’m coming, you know I got that arthritic hip.
Bertha Bell: You gonna have an arthritic stomach if you don’t put some peep in your step, you know those Standardbreds going to eat it all up before we get there. Don’t even get me going on those fast little Quarter Horses, those little speed demons.
Big Momma: I can just smell that smorgasbord now. Girl you know I can eat….my….weight…..in apple treats.
Bertha Bell: Girl we are 1800 pounds respectively of pure love, you need a bit more than apple treats, you better grab a fleet or a bale of that Alfalfa and a scoop or 4 of grain.
Big Momma : Ok but us girls have to watch our figures.
Bertha Bell: I’m watching my figure all the way to the all the way to the after party at the hay roll, then closing my eyes, because I’ll be just standing on my feet sleeping 😂.
Big Momma and Bertha Bell : All fun aside, we want to wish all of you a Happy Thanksgiving with family and friends and remember to save us some carrots and apples please, oh and love ya more than Alfalfa, well not alfalfa but definitely more than orchard grass mix ❤️
Big Momma: Bertha Bell, you need to be quiet and lay back down, you’re food drunk.
Our Thanksgiving fundraiser, if you’d like to help these babies with their hay
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When Goldie arrived at the farm, she was thin and had pneumonia. You could see her ribs move in and out as she tried to breathe. ❤️. Each rescue that comes in is treated as though they are critical then if the one in a thousand isn’t sick, it’s like winning the lottery, because let me tell ya….some of these babies are rough
As he laid there.
Have you ever felt like a character in a tv show that runs forever and never goes anywhere? That’s exactly what it feels like in animal rescue. The laws concerning livestock (what horses are considered in our state) move at the pace of plastic disintegrating.
In almost 150 years little to nothing has changed. Almost no changes since the days of Black Beauty.
He laid there dying, as we frantically tried to find the owner. The piece of crap owner made the other rescue I was with, pay for him, before they could get a veterinarian to treat him. He died waiting.
I sat with him, I wanted him to know he wasn’t alone. I wanted him to know someone cared. I talked softly to him, gently rubbing his face, then closing his eyes as he died.
150 years……. When will it end?
These incidents are all too common in sale barns. I encourage everyone to take one day out of the year to go to a local sale, take pictures, take videos and send those to your lawmakers. Let’s see if we can change the next 150 years.
Answer to everyone’s question…..as far as we know, no one was ever charged. 150 years !!!!!!!!
Fred is feeling better, but still not up to his old self. He felt good enough to chase dad carrying hay to the paddocks.
Just letting you know this is video is about absolutely nothing. Foreword: I had to include my flowers before they freeze.
Come with me for a morning walk around the bottom middle field. This is our quarantine and small paddock area. Here we keep horses when they first arrive, horses that need daily meds and horses that need one on one attention, because of behavioral issues or feral.
Ollie has been feeling a little sickly and has had severe diarrhea for a few days. Soooo, he got a little extra treat, after his meds, he got to take a morning walk and check on all the other critters with mom. He lovvvvveess pigs, when he first arrived he would sleep with them every night, in the hay barn. (I think it’s from being bottle raised in a petting zoo with pigs, goats, ponies and baby cows. (That’s a whole different story)
Btw when Ollie came to the porch of the feed building, he wasn’t hurting the pig, he was eating and piggy wasn’t happy, that Ollie was eating and not him😂.
Such a beautiful morning.
Oh and I had to put my American Flag in the second scene, they flagged my flag 🤦🏼♀️.
So I just realized I posted the original video without the happy ending 🤦🏼♀️. I’ll post his adoption picture in the morning. I’m sorry
Yes this is a repost, buttttt now this video has a new ending, Wink has now been adopted ❤️❤️❤️.
Do you remember the story of Black Beauty, the pain of watching this once beautiful horse be reduced to skin and bones? I remember thinking, if that horse was mine, he would be made beautiful again.
Just like Black Beauty so many of these amazing horses are discarded because they don’t serve their owners anymore, they don’t have value to them, no more than a piece of garbage to be thrown away and never thought of again.
Did you know the story of Black Beauty “wasn’t”originally published in 1877, as a children’s book? It was written to bring awareness of the inhumane treatment of horses.
It’s amazing how almost 150 years later, so little has changed. This amazing horse comes from a long line of registered Standardbred Horses and has winnings over 30K, then sold for slaughter price.
150 years and they still are worth nothing more than the paper money is printed on.
“Ginger”
When Ginger came in, we noticed her having trouble breathing. Her nostril would flare for no reason, just randomly.
Last year, Thorsport found a mass in her nasal cavity. Thorsport then set a date for surgery and did an intensive surgery to remove the mass.
I heard someone once say, these horses are at these sales for a reason. So what they are saying is, That horse that taught them more than they could ever teach her, the horse they sat in a field with, watching the sun go down, that horse that is always the first to run to them in the field…..
“They get sick or get hurt, so they just dump them at a sale”……not.
Ginger is a sweet quarter horse. One day I was saddling Hustler up to ride, this sweet girl was having a fit. She ran to the tack building and stood. She was so sad, when she didn’t get to go. Hopefully once she heals, she can get back to going on trail rides
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