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  • #21
    IHF - do you have a paypal account? i'd like to send you a tiny donation to go towards the care of these two. bless you for looking out for them.
    * trying hard to be the person that my horses think i am

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    • #22
      I'm pretty new here, but you look like you have been here a while and appear to be a real person, so I would also donate a small amount to their care if you can accept Paypal.

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      • #23
        Same here. I can PayPal some funds for care if it would help. Or even for euthanasia if that's what's best.
        It's 2018. Do you know where your old horse is?

        www.streamhorsetv.com -- website with horse show livestream listings and links.

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        • #24
          I can't tell much from those photos so far, but it looks a lot like an injury I dealt with earlier this year (horse was turned out on quite a lot of acreage and think he got tangled up in some kind of wire or sheet metal). It was horrid looking and we really didn't think at first glance he would make it. Vet suggested to put him down. We decided to give it a chance - amazingly he recovered, the hoof grew back, and he's sound as anything now. Hope the same is true for yours...very unfortunate...

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            #25
            update............so they are both SAFE and at their new home @ Desert Dreams rescue which happens to be............a whole mile and a half from my home. LOL! So, the night was kind of a cluster, but when we finally got it together, the gray self loaded and the TB (actually probably an anglo) only took a couple of tries to get on. It was a long drive to my friend's and back, but they both walked into (huge 17 x17) stalls and settled right into eating hay. The gray one seems to have been left with a bridle on?

            Vet is coming in the am, but it appears that the wire cuts on the gray were actually sutured at one time. They were originally dropped off with mud up to their knees, so both have scratches and we think that is what much of the swelling is from.

            Soooo, really all that the evening cost me was a tank of gas and a date night with my hubby (he leaves for out of town business @4am and isn't very happy with me ).

            I will update again after the vet leaves tomorrow.

            Facebook has been updated with the new photos of them at the rescue.

            Thanks to everyone for their great ideas!
            Holly
            www.ironhorsefrm.com
            Oldenburg foals and young prospects
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            • #26
              Great to hear they got some help.

              Sorry for Hubby....that is hard but I'm sure he'll get over it soon enough...make sure you make him an extra special dinner when he comes home!
              Concordia means "Harmony" in Latin.
              Full Time Dressage Addict

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              • #27
                Is there a website for the rescue that took them? I would still like to send a small donation.

                Thanks!

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                  #28
                  Originally posted by newhorsemommy View Post
                  Is there a website for the rescue that took them? I would still like to send a small donation.

                  Thanks!
                  here is the e-mail.....


                  desertdreams09@aol.com

                  Will find out tomorrow if there is a website. They were wonderful, waiting for us with those huge bedded stalls with lots of hay and all set up to clean those legs in preparation for the vet to look in the am.
                  Holly
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                  • #29
                    Thank God for people like you and your husband and those who run the rescue! Hope the horses recover and go to good and caring homes.

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                    • #30
                      Thank you. Whatever time they have left, at least they will be cared for.
                      www.specialhorses.org
                      a 501(c)3 organization helping 501(c)3 equine rescues

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                      • #31
                        IHF -- your karma tank is full.

                        Great job!!
                        Seb
                        Aca-Believe it!!

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                        • #32
                          IHF- I went to see pictures on facebook. Really, I have seen a lot worse than these two -- and those were able to be rehabed and returned to sound riding status. Glad you could find a rescue to take them. Please post their website.

                          I have a small private horse refuge down here in Louisiana- not a rehab and rehome rescue- horses that come here- stay here until . . .the rainbow bridge. I have ten-- most in their teens or early 20s -- all sound except the Paso with suspected DSLD. One is actually a horse bred by my my late husband and me - 20 years ago. All the horses here were ones that I "came up on" while searching for our former horses to offer them a retirement home. Directly is the only one that was "one of ours" originally.

                          I would like to make a small donation toward these two horses' care, too. I wonder if you will ever find out where they came from?? Where ever it was, they have to be in a better situation now.

                          Bless you for going the extra "mile and a half" for them-- that was just too perfect that there was a rescue just down the road willing to take them.

                          Though there are so many abused and neglected horses out there, YOU made a difference for those two!! I wish you great success with your own horses-- and yes there really is such a thing as karma- may all of yours be great.
                          Laissez les bons temps rouler!
                          Elysian Fields Farm--
                          --An equine refuge

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                          • #33
                            Thanks for the update!

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                            • #34
                              They look bright and healthy besides their lack of groceries and wounds. I would have saved them too.

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                              • #35
                                Originally posted by Iron Horse Farm View Post
                                here is the e-mail.....


                                desertdreams09@aol.com

                                Will find out tomorrow if there is a website. They were wonderful, waiting for us with those huge bedded stalls with lots of hay and all set up to clean those legs in preparation for the vet to look in the am.
                                Is this the place? http://desertdreamsboardingstable.webs.com/aboutus.htm I googled the e-mail you provided, and came up with this website.

                                Bless you and the rescue for stepping up. Weightwise, the horses look like they will recover. I adopted an Arabian mare last year who was about that weight, and she is lovely now. All it took was groceries and turnout. She had what I thought of as a "sharksfin withers", and now she has this lovely "bump" that doesn't look like it will anchor a saddle too well, lol. Its amazing what some calories will do!

                                I found a starving Arab on Craigslist last week. He was literally a rack of bones. He was listed free in an ad for two skinny but still healthy looking quarter horses. By the time I saw the ad and called, one day after listing, all three horses were already gone. I pray that some kind soul is rehabbing that Arab. I haven't been able to get him out of my mind. I hope he wasn't scooped up by a kill buyer. Bless you for what you have done.

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                                • #36
                                  Bless you for helping them.

                                  A friend of mine has done a lot of horse rescue and has kind of wound up specializing in rescue horses who have horrid old wounds with proud flesh. She has a great protocol for caring for it that has been very successful. PM me if you'd like to be put in contact with her --- I'm sure she would advise.

                                  As to your husband, I just try to make sure that mine knows how totally amorous I feel after rescuing a horse.....it works! Ha ha.

                                  Thanks for stepping up and caring. Horses like this are so totally rewarding to rehab; they have suffered so much and seem to appreciate the care.

                                  You might post this to NetPosse since it's possible they were stolen at one point.

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                                  • #37
                                    you ever wish that people who do that to animals, could be treated the same way?
                                    I swear to god I do when I see that kind of thing. There is a special place in h*ll for people who treat animals like they are garbage!

                                    poor ponies

                                    you are a great person to be helping them.
                                    "Because right now, this is a job. If I advance any higher, this would be my career. And if this were my career, I'd have to throw myself in front of a train."
                                    Jim Halpert

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                                    • #38
                                      Wow. Good on you for helping them out. Despite how bad a shape they are in now, I can't help but think of how bad it could have been had the people NOT dumped them. They would have likely ended up dead in some back field someplace.
                                      Just wish they'd let them go long before they got like that.

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