Visit from the filly fairy!! ...or not

[Debby - LB]

Imagine my surprise! since I quit breeding years ago and only have 2 little mares here that I kept for pets.

After having to get up 3 times last night because of Dolly's unusual barking, I got up this morning to find a pretty little miniature mare in my backyard. One time last night I had to run my daughters dog back home, which was very unusual for her to be up here but that to me explained why Dolly was barking...

Over the weekend I told my husband that when I was outside grooming Dolly my 2 girls were screaming, snorting, and running the little paddock fence line just like they'd seen another horse. They definitely smelled something that had them acting like that so I think this girls maybe been in the woods a few days, poor little thing. Now how to find her owner and get her home!

 

[chandab]

Well, she couldn't have picked a better doorstep to land on to help her find her way home. Hope you find her owners soon.

 

[Rhondaalaska]

Oh no , I hope you find them, but at least she has you

 

[Lil Eowyn]

Hope you find her home!

 

[stormy]

Are you sure she is not a drop off? Have had 2 dropped in my yard, no owners ever found....

 

[LittleRibbie]

Debbie, how amazing that she would find you....I hope you find her real home soon, after of course, a good meal. Why do I only get raccoons and skunks!!

 

[Eagle]

Oh wow, i wish a mini would turn up in my back yard lol Heidi you get skunks and I get snakes

Anyway good luck finding her owner.

 

[supaspot]

i agree , theres a good chance that shes a drop off

 

[REO]

I hope you can find her owners soon! But she couldn't be in better hands until then

 

Drop offs are fairly common here in Florida. There is a rescue here a few streets away, and they woke up to find 18 full size horses on their front lawn (their house sits way back with a long driveway) -- all dropped off and starving.

She couldn't have found a better home -- even if it's only for a visit!

 

[Boss Mare]

Oh, wow! Ironic, huh?!

Good luck finding the owners, keep us updated. Glad she is in good hands.

 

[Riverrose28]

Short story, one night tow years ago a pickup flew into my drive at 3:30 AM blareing his horn, "Your horses are lose and running on the road." Of course me in a panic ran outside in my PJs with a flash light checking everything out. My big guys had spent the night in stalls because of storms, all the minis were where they should be, and I didn't see any running horses. Went back to bed couldn't go back to sleep, good thing, our stallion is in a quarter acre paddock beside the house and can be seen from the road, but we are surrounded by trees, he was screaming. I went out and sure enough three large horses and one pinto pony were eating grass, I put the stallion in the barn, got a bucket of grain and the horses followed me into the stallions paddock. I called the police and animal control, kept them for two days, no owners, I also called all around me to try and find owners. Finally the people about three miles away came by and claimed the horses, said the storm knocked a tree down over their fence and the horses got out and they had been looking for them and called animal control and wala they gave them my name. So I would recommend calling animal control just in case this little one got lose by accident.