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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
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. 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:

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Hippie in his recent show days

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Hippie at the broker's

Picture 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.
And he lived happily ever after
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is this the one that won so much money in his racing days? or is that another one i saw on there?? what a happy ending!!!
 
Hey Dani, that's the way to do it. Just one miracle at a time, and look what good it did.

This is a beautiful success story. And there's that name again, that New Holland.......

Dani, I for one want to hear more about the New Holland auction.

Is it true that there are nearly 40 minis that have recently gone through there?

What in the world is going on there?

What do you or anyone know about this and where exactly is New Holland anyway?

I think that would be a very good post for the main forum board, instead of the rescue board actually so that all the mini people can be aware of this kind of thing that is going on. Since we have so many newbies on the forum, I think it would be good to post any information that anyone has about this situation on the main forum board.
 
No this is another one Kaykay. My pocketbook will be filled with moths soon but
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what the heck!
 
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what a great story that is! surely a good one for this time of year. Sadly there are so many more like him that are being thrown away but one at a time you are making a difference.

I have heard to about some minis running thru auctions up that way.. with papers and all
 
this new holland sounds like our sweet water. ugh its just horrible. smell of death everywhere. fortunately there were only 2 minis and about 4 or 5 ponies. but i have heard that sometimes there are more. i plan on going back to see but its really hard to go there and see all these sick and dying horses and most going to the meat buyer. i came home bawling my eyes out
 
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God Bless all those people that helped this dear horse.

It reminds me of a line from the movie "Seabiscuit". "You just don't throw a whole life away because it's banged up a little." ( I think that's the quote... well, that's what my kids tell me.)

God Bless everyone that helped this big guy...

Thanks for posting... I'd love to just give him a hug!
 
Brilliant!

Rescuing at it's finest!!

Great job!

Sadly, enough doesn't say much for the %$#@*( who let such a beautiful talented, sweet, I am sure, animal end up heading for meat at age 5 because of an injury caused by him working for them!!!!!

You and your colleagues should be congratulated, the people who did this will get what is coming to them
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I am sorry but people can be so miserable!
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kaykay I am sure I would feel the same way, not sure I could stomach the kill pens
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. I would want to bring all of them home of course which is not feasible. I know that if horse slaughter didn't exist then the plight of some might be much worse, starving to death somewhere and other inhumane treatment. I just wish they would find a more humane way of doing all of this. What I guess truly irks me is the fact that equine owners of any breed would send their horses for meat instead of humanely having them euthanized by their veterinarian. For all the years of pleasure they give us they at least should end their life with some kind of dignity. Okay off my soapbox.
 
capall beag said:
Brilliant!
Rescuing at it's finest!!

Great job!

Sadly, enough doesn't say much for the %$#@*( who let such a beautiful talented, sweet, I am sure, animal end up heading for meat at age 5 because of an injury caused by him working for them!!!!!

You and your colleagues should be congratulated, the people who did this will get what is coming to them
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I am sorry but people can be so miserable!
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The people who owned this horse purchased him we found out from the Tattersall sale in Kentucky for a very low amount of $. That is why it is SO IMPORTANT that any horse owner who bring their horses to an auction to find them a new owner truly need to put a reserve bid on them so they don't end up in an undesireable situation. Now the owner who brought him into the kill broker did what he is use to doing in his "culture". The amish buy many saddlebreds as they are their preferred carriage horse. To them they are a necessity basically in order to get around, hence a commodity. When it breaks down and you can't fix it you get rid of it. I don't think we can ever change that culture and it's certainly not all individuals in this culture that treat their horses this way but many do unfortunately. At least he didn't leave out there to starve. If he would we wouldn't have been able to intervene, so that's the one good thing.
 
What a wonderful story! Bless you for the time that you put into this... Hippie looks like he has a heart of gold, and I am so glad he ended up in a good home.
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Liz R.
 

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