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  • #41
    Uh, epona... with all due respect if families with immature childish brats with access to computers were not allowed to own horses, then a lot of us would have been forbidden to own a horse until we were 20+ years and forced to give them up as soon as we had children. It isn't automatically equal to poor horse care.
    Your crazy is showing. You might want to tuck that back in.

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      #42
      Yeah, but that's the thing we as in mum and dad adopted her from houston spca and is takeing exstreamly good care of her isf ya'll would just wait for a while than I can get more pics. and prove to you she is getting the care she needs! If ya'll don't and just go off and email Houston and them take Abby away from us and haveing a teenagers wish come true after so long then ya'll are the ones being so selfish not us and with the care we are giving her then that's even more selfish! They force the animals away from the other people for abusing them and starving them to death and also the inviroment so I am not one of them but if ya'll email I just might get her takeing away how about we just drop the thread because I don't want my mare taking away and for other peoples fault for it and have to wait another feel like a million yrs and cry my self to sleep because of ya'll then I am just gunna drop the whole thing!
      My Baby Girl Abby!

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        #43
        Please I beg ya'll don't do it!
        My Baby Girl Abby!

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        • #44
          Abbey- how old are you?

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            #45
            I can't say exsact age but I am a teen! I finnally got my wish to come true withen waiting for 6 years and I don't want that to be takeing away from me just because of a stupid mistake I did!
            My Baby Girl Abby!

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            • #46
              Why would they take her away if you are taking good care of her? The thing is, the mare you showed us, supposedly of when you first adopted her, is so poor that no one, no ASPCA would EVER adopt the horse out in that condition.

              Also, its a fact, honey, and listen up real well: Men who abuse animals abuse children. I shudder to think what your standards are in abusive men and what kind of an environment this horse is in now, with that kind of person having access to her.
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                #47
                Well no I am not going to allow him to even come close up to her and I am over him I told him I don't ever wana see him again! They might do it if someone sais sumthing because the old owner's family if they see it will try to get her back and then she will be takeing away from us!That's why I am saing please don't send them an email I don't want her taking away from me! My mum had bout her as a birthday presnt for me because I love horses and becaus eI have depretion and she knows that I get better when I am around horses but if she is takeing away then I will go right back in!
                My Baby Girl Abby!

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                • #48
                  Interesting.

                  The Houston ASPA only adopts out spayed and neutered animals.

                  "The Houston SPCA spays and neuters all adopted animals before placement in their new homes. "

                  This looks like it includes all their horses, as all horses available for adoption on the website are either spayed or neutered. I cannot imagine them adopting out a pregnant mare in that condition to someone with this caliber (lack of) of horse experience.
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                  • #49
                    its just keeps getting better and better. i can barely understand the posts. im sure that his poster is bogus

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                    • #50
                      Inyureye- can you check further? I think you're onto something here.. JMHO...

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                        #51
                        Well they did it because they do if the animal is in healthy condition as in clear of all desieses and that and because she was pregnant so they couldn't fix her also we sighned a forum like thing so if we do abuse or re breed her ect. they have permition to take her away, but we arn't going to breed were just going to giver her tlc when ever she can be ridden then were gunna ride her on trail rides.
                        My Baby Girl Abby!

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                        • #52
                          This is entertaining. Although I do hope that the poor skinny horse in the OP's pictures isn't rotting in someone's backyard somewhere.

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                            #53
                            I swear she isn't I wouldn't let that happen to her she has gained quite a bit of weight. I am going to get some pics. of her tommarrow because I get car sick in my dads truck so I am not going to go today! Tomarrow is when I can cuz my mum will be going so yeah and the people who are helping us everyday are experianced!
                            My Baby Girl Abby!

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                            • #54
                              Alexsmom, you know. Depretion. She might go back in it. I was depreted too, when I was a teenager and begged for a horse and me mum said no.

                              Mum. Now there's an interesting term for your mother, is that what they say now in Texas? Mum and Dad? I know in Connecticut we say upper crust types (guffaw) tend to say "Mummy and Deddy" through a tight jaw, but I thought the lingo was looser in Texas. Mom and Dad.
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                              • #55
                                Equ8tor - I'll give it a go, I think, Epona is too. Let ya know.
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                                  #56
                                  It is but I call my mom mum and my dad dad I would post the new pic that I took of her yesterday but the photo thing wont down load it I don't know why!
                                  My Baby Girl Abby!

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                                  • #57
                                    if the animal is in healthy condition
                                    Yet is wasn't. The mare was close to death in those adoption pictures you posted.

                                    How could the former owner, who I would suppose starved her into this condition, get her back from you, the rescuer, if they read email from the SPCA? Are you sane?
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                                    • #58
                                      Sorry. I'll stop running on about this. This just sort of stuns me.
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                                      • #59
                                        Inyureye, something just doesn't add up. I agree. She says her mom "had bout her" (bought, I assume she means) as a gift, but I don't know many people who refer do adoptions as purchases.

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                                        • #60
                                          Inyureye- I'll await your report!
                                          I agree...stuns me too....

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