Danielle_E.
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In the past few weeks I have become heavily involved with a few horse rescues, one in Washington state which deals directly with a kill pen operator and one through another forum I am a member of Trot.org which rescues saddlebred horses mainly through the New Holland auction site where the kill buyers frequent heavily. Little did I know when a group of us pooled our money and paid the asking price by a broker in order to save this guy from his fate of going for meat that the story would end like this
. You see this guy was brought in after sustaining a major buggy accident (owned by an amish indivual) which left him with an extremely protruding right hip bone. He was evaluated by a rescue in the area and found that he would walk, trot and canter with no problems, just had the unsightly injury. We dubbed him "Hippie". The rescue went and picked him up and had a veterinarian come and see what could be done if anything. The prognosis was that it was severe nerve damage but that no fractures had occured. In the meantime a rescue in Georgia who works closely with the rescue in Pensylvania saw this horse and offered to foster him since the rescue in Pensylvania was quite full.
The rescue in Georgia took it upon themselves to find out as much as they could if anything about this guy and here is what they found out:
Hippie in his recent show days
Hippie at the broker's
The rescue in Georgia took it upon themselves to find out as much as they could if anything about this guy and here is what they found out:
Hippie in his recent show days
Hippie at the broker's
And he lived happily ever afterPicture above is Hammertime's Perfect Storm, both showing sucessfully as a Jr horse,then being pulled out of a meat brokers "kill" lot at just 5 yrs of age with a severe hip injury due to a buggy accident. We were able to find his identity by lots of hard work and even more luck. He is heading home to be reunited with a proud new owner and a former trainer.