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FINAL UPDATE: All listed horses safe, drafts not shipped. See pg 8

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    #141
    LOL! No chance of too many people saying nice things about the owner! I now get what you are saying.
    Until they are safe.
    www.safehorses.org

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    • #142
      <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by cvl:
      Bail for a feedlot horse - $675.00
      Transportation to CO - @ $400 or so?
      Knowing you saved one from slaughter-PRICELESS
      </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

      I love that! So true, so true!


      MSP, I never said the feed lot owner was a good guy, or a bad guy, just a business guy. I haven't read all the replies on this thread, so I can only speak for myself here. I think my post was more of a knee jerk reaction, like please don't say we (adopters) are paying too much for these horses~ie you can get them cheaper elsewhere. Also, he (the feed lot owner) does not sell the horses to CBER, he owns them, sets the price, all that. CBER just tries (in simple terms) to get the word out on the ones who are good canidates for new homes.

      Sorry if I took your post wrong, about paying the feed lot owner a little more. I agree too with SafeHorses, there is no right or one way to rescue, not dogs, cats, birds, or horses. Anyway, and anything that can be done, that's a good thing! I don't agree with the business the feedlot owner is in. I simply can't. I don't know if this makes him a bad guy, but I do believe in Karma


      OT but EBO, I think you are the one who started the thread here on COTH that I saw, it had a link to CBER, and to Luke. If you hadn't started it, I never would have seen Luke. I wanted to thank you 101 times for starting that thread, and Luke and I would love to send a little something to you and your horses!
      WestWind Farms
      Love means attention, which means looking after the things we love. We call this stable management.
      - George H. Morris

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      • Original Poster
        #143
        UPDATE: all listed horses on the CBER site are safe and none of the remaining drafts shipped. There are some new sound horses on the lot that are being assesSed and hopefully they will be posted on the CBER site shortly, so be sure to check them out. This pretty much wraps up this version of "Help CBER save some horses" so keep an eye out on the site and we'll be back when it starts getting full again!

        THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH FOR YOUR GENEROSITY. COTH IS FANTASTIC!!!
        Until they are safe.
        www.safehorses.org

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        • #144
          Oh Ishi! How kind of you. It really makes me feel so great to help find a good home for a horse who doesn't have one. That's the best reward there is.

          Unless, of course, you could send me a truck load of barn help!

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          • #145
            Just a slight Hijack..EBO, how are the girls? Have you graduated from pole to hand contact?

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            • #146
              Hi Jazzy--several people told me, after watching Sister a little, that they thought she was wild stock, and that probably had never seen a human from closer than a mile away before she was "captured"! (These people have worked with BLM youngsters, ranch-born unhandled 2 yr olds, etc.) Okay, so I continued making tiny baby steps with her, except every day with the partner stick, I had to start over from the beginning. One day it dawned on me out of the blue that perhaps the people who brought her to the feedlot/auction/wherever-she-went-first, might have used a cattle prod on her and THAT was why we were having such problems with the partner stick. So, I stopped using it, and instead started sitting very quietly and closely to her while she was eating her hay. Since then, she has started smelling my hair and face (trying to smell my breath, I think), nibbling a little on my pants, and she doesn't hesitate to take food from my hands. She does follow me around, and I can coax her back into her pen now if I need to.

              One thing that seems odd to me is that when she first came, she didn't seem as afraid of me as she was after a few days to a week. Since I know nothing bad has happened to her since she's been here, the only possibilities I can think of is either she was so traumatized from all her adventures before she arrived that she was in a state of shock until she relaxed a little, OR somebody had given her a little something to take the edge off someplace along the line. What do you think? The drivers told me that when they picked them up that Bob's place was a mad house--kids throwing ropes, dogs chasing horses, etc.--so maybe somebody did medicate her to get her on the trailer. We'll never know (until it's time to teach her to load ).

              Ms. Anky, otoh, is something of a star. She does the halter thing, the grooming thing, the bug spray thing, leads (sort of) and adores clicker training. She has wrapped my husband around her little hoof. She likes to jump things, she likes to watch me make her porridge and paws because she can't eat it fast enough to suit her.

              And, they play! That's a pretty recent development, and it makes me feel great that they are feeling safe and happy enough to do so.

              I need to take new pictures.

              Let me know what you think.

              Eve

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