Re: Fw: Arab Slaughter Horses etc...!

["Howard Bramhall" <hwb67@msn.com>]

  ----- Original Message -----

From: Beth Gunn

Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 7:53 PM

To: ridecamp@endurance.net

Subject: RC: Fw: Arab Slaughter Horses etc...!

 

Have really good friend here in Moncks Corner SC who does close to this.
For her job/career she goes out, finds neglected and unwanted horses,
registered and not, brings them to her barn and re-habs them.  It is a long
process, at Least several months.  Usually 6 months to a year.  And resales
them as pleasure horses....oporative word, yes?  After adding up the
expenses, she barely, I mean it!, breaks even.  But, she is doing what she
loves and a lot of horse who would be planted by now have good homes...I
know, at least temporarily.  Know how fickle folks can be.
Beth Gunn
----- Original Message -----
From: Jim Holland <lanconn@tds.net>
To: <guest@endurance.net>
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 7:38 PM
Subject: RC: Arab Slaughter Horses

> Amen....can't fix the world.
>
> Good Post, Kat...
>
> Regards, Jim
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Maybe not, Jim, but I do believe there are Angels and Saints who walk this world amongst us; we just don't see them because we're too fixated on our own agenda.  I might be wrong, but it's possible that the woman from Moncks Corner, SC, is one of those Angels. 

You can't save them all, but if you save just one or two or three, you have good reason to get up in the morning (feed that new horse who needs the nutrition more than any other creature in your neighborhood).  Yes, Kat is right, it ain't easy.  But if it was easy, then we wouldn't need an Angel or a Saint to perform the task.

We've all heard about those horses who have miraculously turned out to be great endurance athletes, rescued from a slaughter house or bought at an action taken away from the horse flesh peddlers.  But, this kind of transformation should not be the reason you purchase this horse.  It's no guarantee that a horse in this condition will ever be able to complete a 25 miler.  But the horse will be alive and you have taken away the alternative.

It's been asked what do you do if the horse turns out to have some bad faults?  Valid question and you should realize the horse just might have a few since he won't be in any condition for you to trot him out and ride him penned up in that cage.  Your new purchase is a gamble and you should be prepared for the worst and hope for the best.  Look at it this way; if the horse has some bad habits he will make you the best trainer in the world, with a horse savvy and knowledge to impress anyone who thinks they are a horse whisperer.  And the horse will teach you this knowledge because you never give up on him.  Never, no matter what.  And you never give up because you are an Angel or a Saint in training.  And I'm so glad you walk the same ground as the rest of us.  I, for one, know you are out there.

cya,

Howard (yea, sentimental crap, I know.)