MBennettp
Well-Known Member
As some of you may have noticed I posted that I was looking for a companion for the broodmare that I am getting next weekend.
I also told a few people that I was looking. This lady contacted me and told me she had an 8 year old pony I could have.
I went to look at him yesterday and nobody was home. I could see this tiny little pinto in a pasture but not very closely. Well, last night she contacted me again and told me they would be home today if I wanted to come to see him.
When she gave me the directions I reallized I had been at the wrong farm. Anyhow, we hooked up the trailer and set off to look at this horse.
We drove up this really long muddy driveway to a house and didn't see any animals except some really big dogs. The lady and her husband came out and told us to follow them.
We walked around behind the house and there were at least 15 big horses eating hay and you could see every rib. We kept following and in a little bitty pen with a small barn stands a very muddy and manure covered pony.
They told me that they had been trying all day to catch him to get a halter on him so I could look at him. I asked them to stay back and walked right up to him. He was not what I was looking for in the least but I took him to get him away from that home.
He wasn't halter broken but followed me to the trailer and was not at all hard to load. They were really surprised, said he had never been loaded before.
We took off and stopped at the nearest town and contacted the sheriff's department. They didn't even know there was a house back in there but while we were there, they contacted the local SPCA chapter and asked their representative to meet them 1/4 mile from the farm in 30 minutes.
We had to leave but I left my name and contact information and told them that I would be glad to come back to testify as to what I had seen.
Anyway, we now have a grade pinto pony stallion who was very happy to leave and very very happy to see grass even if it was dead. I left him with a hay rack full of hay in a clean stall with fresh water and some grain. He was still grazing when I left but I fugure he will explore the stall later tonight.
Now I have to get him healthy enough to have him gelded. He is really skinny but was in much better shape than the big horses were. He will visit with the vet tomorrow for an evaluation and to get him started on the right track.
My brother in law told me I would never catch him again but he never stopped grazing when I brushed some of the mud off of him. I won't have any trouble catching him, he'll figure out really fast where his feed comes from.
People like the ones that had him make me so mad I could commit a crime. How they can live with themselves I will never know. If I have an animal and can't take care of it, I will find it a home immediately, not wait until it is nearly starved to death.
Mary
I also told a few people that I was looking. This lady contacted me and told me she had an 8 year old pony I could have.
I went to look at him yesterday and nobody was home. I could see this tiny little pinto in a pasture but not very closely. Well, last night she contacted me again and told me they would be home today if I wanted to come to see him.
When she gave me the directions I reallized I had been at the wrong farm. Anyhow, we hooked up the trailer and set off to look at this horse.
We drove up this really long muddy driveway to a house and didn't see any animals except some really big dogs. The lady and her husband came out and told us to follow them.
We walked around behind the house and there were at least 15 big horses eating hay and you could see every rib. We kept following and in a little bitty pen with a small barn stands a very muddy and manure covered pony.
They told me that they had been trying all day to catch him to get a halter on him so I could look at him. I asked them to stay back and walked right up to him. He was not what I was looking for in the least but I took him to get him away from that home.
He wasn't halter broken but followed me to the trailer and was not at all hard to load. They were really surprised, said he had never been loaded before.
We took off and stopped at the nearest town and contacted the sheriff's department. They didn't even know there was a house back in there but while we were there, they contacted the local SPCA chapter and asked their representative to meet them 1/4 mile from the farm in 30 minutes.
We had to leave but I left my name and contact information and told them that I would be glad to come back to testify as to what I had seen.
Anyway, we now have a grade pinto pony stallion who was very happy to leave and very very happy to see grass even if it was dead. I left him with a hay rack full of hay in a clean stall with fresh water and some grain. He was still grazing when I left but I fugure he will explore the stall later tonight.
Now I have to get him healthy enough to have him gelded. He is really skinny but was in much better shape than the big horses were. He will visit with the vet tomorrow for an evaluation and to get him started on the right track.
My brother in law told me I would never catch him again but he never stopped grazing when I brushed some of the mud off of him. I won't have any trouble catching him, he'll figure out really fast where his feed comes from.
People like the ones that had him make me so mad I could commit a crime. How they can live with themselves I will never know. If I have an animal and can't take care of it, I will find it a home immediately, not wait until it is nearly starved to death.
Mary
