rescuestories

This is Shilo arrived May 22nd 2009, we have a
lot of work ahead of us. She is the sweetest
mare, she is underweight, her hooves are bad,
and her teeth are a mess. She is also covered
in massive scars, what this little horse went
through we will never know.
She was abandoned in a pasture in Northern
California, she was lucky the lady was kind
enough to take her in and feed her till the
hauler arrived to bring her here to us.
This is a perfect example of what can happen if
you turn your horse loose because you no long
want or can afford to take care of them. They
are unable to take care of themselves because
they have been taking care of by humans their
whole life, they are set free to die a slow death,
this is how i see this.
Shilo has a lot of love to give someone, she is
starved for attention, the kids you can see in
the photos pet her, i let them in with her and
she is as calm as they come.
Our mission now is to get her straightened out,
get the weight on which will be a slow process
but we will get there. I had to remove most of
her mane, did that without a halter and even cut
a bridle path and she just stood there.
There ill be more on Shilo in the days to come
we have a battle ahead of us...one we intend on
winning.

June 6th just an update on Shilo, she is doing well, her feet are done, she has
made a friend and she is one nice horse, no matter what i throw at this girl
she responds like a trained horse should. We will work on getting the weight
on and then attempt mounting her.

Beauty...She looks like Black Beauty so the kids here renamed her.
Beauty came to us through people who cared enough to rescue this mare
from another rescue. She was suppose to have sanctuary at this other about
to lose money the horse had to go. It stated on their website they could not
do her feet because she had to be tranquilized, my farrier had no problem
broodmare sound or companion horse only. Her feet were in such bad shape
she was almost dragging this front leg around. My farrier has her upright and
she now can get around like a normal horse. He figured she hasn't been
done in a very, very long time. It stated on the website also that companion
horses were not released until they had their feet and teeth done, either have
been done on this horse.
She was purchased at auction, they rode her in and i guess the rescue who
bought her figured they could sell her right away, big mistake a blind person
could have seen the problem with her front leg. The rescue wasn't into losing
money on the horse and she was then rescued from the rescue so they
wouldn't have her put down or resold at auction.
This mare is amazing and beautiful I will be contact prior owners to see if i can
get more information on the horse and how this injury happened. I will get
pictures in the next couple of days, its graduation time and the humans here
have to many things going on, parties and whatnots.
More on Beauty in the coming days.

Introducing BEE A TIGRESS
AKA BEAUTY BLACK TB MARE

BELOW ARE PICTURES OF HER LEG
THAT WAS BROKEN NOW HEALED.
SHE HAS NO PROBLEM GETTING
AROUND.