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#1 ·
This was started elsewhere, thought I would start one here on HF, where we could share pictures of stories of horses we've helped along our way.

My first one is Que. She was a 23 year old Arabian mare that was sent in to the auction. She was with her daughter, who unfortantely was a little too far gone. While Que was fat, she had slipped feet and halter growing into her face. When I called the lady after, she told me was extremely dangerous and she was surprised I got near her.
Well, she never once showed a mean bone in her body, even as I cuddled with her in the pen waiting for her to go through. I paid $120 for her and got laughed as I walked her out to the trailer.
I had four amazing years with this wonderful old gal before she passed away to an aneurysm. I'll never forget the love and heart this mare had.
Please excuse the halter marks and feet - these were pictures taken before she had healed.







Que and me, days after arrival. Dangerous, eh?

 
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Well this little girl is still mid-rehabilitation but she has already nuzzled her way into my heart. She was actually rescued by an organization and put into foster with us as a one month old after being born in a small stall with her dam and another large mare who were only being fed moldy hay and never let out or show daylight. Her dam then died when she was two months old due to a major stroke and she was left orphaned. We bottle fed her, weaned her at 5 months, and she was adopted by a seemingly kind family that were going to take their time with her and train her as a trail mounts. Well that went sour when about half a year later the rescue did a mandatory suprise check up on little Kenzie (the filly) and found her in a hard-grounded paddock, all along, with no access to food or water and starving to death. We found out a few days later after she was pulled from that home and placed back with us that she also had (and still has) Equine Herpes Virus type II after she collapsed and refused to get back up.

She has now been with us for a week and is on the mend dispite the fact that she had only been given a very small chance of living. She is chronically emanciated, has sores all over her body including a gash on her shoulder from her old home, and still very ill. She is also thought to be stunted, as her dam and sire were 15.2 and 16.2, but she is barely weanling height and has not grown since she was 5 months old. Dispite all of this, I am convinced that she is going to make it!






I also have Sour, who was not thin or really neglected, but she had been tossed into a corral with a one way ticket to the dog food manufacturerafter being pronounced 'a man eater' (she lunged with bared teeth at people and had just about every vice you can think of) because she had formerly been trained incorrectly and dangerously by a man that threw her onto the ground, sat ontop of her, and held her down until she stopped thrashing. It took her years to trust me and even longer to trust other people, but slowly she has proven that she is NOT a monster, but rather very sensative and willing to do anything that you ask her...if you ask her correctly. She is now a wonderful cart horse and I couldnt ask for a better work partner!


Lastly we have Breezey (Bree) who came along with Kenzie, her dam, and three others. She came with her 3 month old colt Peppin and was about 150 lbs underweight and full of very severe intestinal and stomach ulcers. It took us months to get them under control and her up to weight, but a year later she is under saddle and doing very well.

(pictured on the left)


now:



 
#6 ·
She is beautiful, I have a soft spot for the old guys.
Our first rehab was Skip when I was ten. He was under weight and had a chain halter digging in to his face. It was a long journey but Skip lived until he was in his late thirties. I would give the world to have him back again.
Horse Vertebrate Pasture Mammal Meadow


Back in his retired field
He started it all my love for horses. You always get that one animal you can never fill that spot in your heart again, well he took mine.
 
#7 ·
Thank you. It has been a long, rough road (the one week has felt like so much longer. I've been worried sick!) but she's finally starting to improve!

Silver is absolutely gorgeous. I love his coat.
 
#8 ·
I love these type of threads and seeing how far some have come.

Here is Rascal. His story has been on this forum before, but here he is again. I answered an ad for a 2-3 year old haflinger but instead saw a 3 year old quarter cross and this little guy they called Weasel but who knows what he really was - maybe haflinger cross? Maybe? Said he was a yearling and teeth seemed to verify it but he was the size of a weanling and had a horrible coat - long and icky at a time when all my other horses were already sleeked out for summer. And could easily feel his ribs under his coat. Went home but this little guy stuck with me. A phone call and $100 later he was coming home. He wasn't even halter trained and they could only catch him with grain and cornering him I the stall. Sounded like he was intent on tearing down the trailer on our ride home.





That was May 2010. This pic was Oct 2010:



And a month or two ago. He loads great on the trailer and we are now working on saddle training. My husband said that if he was black he would rename him shadow because Rascal tries to be mine. If I'm out in the pastures he is following me everywhere.

 
#10 ·
This is my Bree - I can only find one picture of her after she started gaining weight. I guess I didn't want too many pictures of her looking like scrawny. And then how she looks now. This mare is amazing. :)
 

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