Re: Filly Update - she's HOME !

["GESA BRINKS" <gesaeqfx@pe.net>]

congratulations on your new mare.  She sounds like a really nice girl.  Im
impressed at how you were able to track her down and rescue her.  It was
just meant to be.  Good luck to you and she in your new life together.
gesa n clovis n sky


-----Original Message-----
From: Louisa_Pierce@ne.3com.com <Louisa_Pierce@ne.3com.com>
To: ridecamp@endurance.net <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Cc: Cslinn@media100.com <Cslinn@media100.com>
Date: Wednesday, June 21, 2000 11:24 AM
Subject: RC: Filly Update - she's HOME !


>
>
>
>I just got back from getting the Filly (Miss Pam)  She is beautiful!  A
lovely
>Rose Grey /
>Strawberry Roan combo.   When we got there she was still on the trailer
from the
>night before,
>she walked off quietly and she was/is very sweet.  She had drank, she was
alert,
>and she
>wanted to eat grass, no coughing and no snotty nose.  (all good signs)
>
>She is extremely quit.  She is very under weight - then again I have seen
some
>100 mile
>horses that look just like her, so some may think she is a perfect weight,
but I
>think she is
>skinny.  Yes her feet are very long in the toe and no heel - which gives
her
>pasterns a
>very long look, but I hope w/ some proper shoeing her pasterns will look
much
>better.
>
>We asked her to walk up in a strange 2 horse straight load - and up and in
she
>went, and she
>stood like an angle and was a perfect guest for the ride home.
>
>She was not sure how to come off the trailer, but she did it w/ out a fuss.
We
>walked her around
>and again, the sweetness in this horse is unreal!   We found a nice stall
far
>away from all
>the other horses (vet comes tomorrow) and she drank more and she ate a 1/2
qt of
>pellets
>while she munched the hay.
>
>She has a super trot, the kind I love - when they spread their legs real
wide
>and GO.  Her back is
>a little long and I think her croup may be a little low, but everything is
so
>hard to tell right now
>with her being so thin.
>
>I hope she vets out and gets nice and healthy.  I hope to make her my next
>CTR/LD horse.  I
>just fell in love w/ her the moment I saw her.  Then again Caroline's Boy
Friend
>is also in love
>with her and the whole barn seemed fasinated - so I may have to fight for
her -
>hehehe
>
>If she does not vet out, Caroline will keep her (so don't worry, she is not
>going anywhere if she
>does not vet out)  but I really don't see why she would not.  She has no
>windpuffs and no
>splints and not bowed tendons - something I expected from her life so far.
>
>Caroline and I are very excited!!   We were so glad to help this little
girl.
>This makes sending
>all those donations to PETA and Hoofed Aminal Assoc worth it.
>
>Louisa, Caroline and Miss PAM!
>
>
>
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