countrygal wrote:
I know the economy is a factor, but damn those careless owners/breeders who see the horse as a quick buck and not a life.

Just heartbreaking... And to know there are so many more out there who don't get help.
I think this mare was ditched before the economy got bad... last registered foal was 94 and from a stallion with a hefty stud fee...

Poor old girl reminds me so much of the Paso mare that we found at auction in 96... scarred up, beat up, and just hide stretched over bone.


" We are all lone souls. It pays to know humility, lest the delusion of control, of mastery, overwhelms. And, indeed, we seem a species prone to that delusion, again and ever again. "

"...But nothin' ever came
From a life that was a simple one."

" You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake.  You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are all part of the same compost pile. "