RC: Re: To Brand or not to brand (long)

["Dyane Smith" <sunibey@sisqtel.net>]

Do you think a registry freeze brand qualifies as a nice brand for most
sales yards?

Also, kind of interesting--I always thought the brand inspector worked for
the government, but someone yesterday said the reason he won't come out is
it's not required and there's no money in it.  Right now, I'm trying to
locate the retired brand inspector who knew all the horses everywhere--I'll
pay him to come look.
Dyane

----- Original Message -----
From: <CMKSAGEHIL@aol.com>
To: <dotwgns@ruralnetwork.net>; <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2000 7:24 PM
Subject: RC: To Brand or not to brand (long)


> In a message dated 1/16/00 6:56:22 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> dotwgns@ruralnetwork.net writes:
>
> << An old expression is a nice brand will bring him home. >>
>
> Dot, this reminds me of an incident that happened when I was a small
child.
> My parents bought their brand with their ranch in central Idaho.  When I
was
> 6 or 7, my dad got a letter from a sale yard in western Montana with
pictures
> of a horse that a man had tried to sell through that yard.  The horse had
our
> brand, and the man did not have a bill of sale.  We had never seen the
horse
> before, so dad did some checking.  It turned out that the horse had been
> owned by the man from whom we had bought the ranch, and that he had put
the
> horse up as a bet in a poker game and had lost him!  The fellow who was
> trying to sell him in Montana had won him fair and square.  Since we had
> bought the ranch with all livestock and since we owned the brand, dad
wrote
> the man a bill of sale for the horse, and the man was able to go ahead and
> sell him.  Yes, auction yards WILL notice a nice brand!
>
> Heidi
>
>