Re: Cheap horses

["none" <knever@eatel.net>]

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From: MBlanchrd@aol.com <MBlanchrd@aol.com>
To: horsecrazy22@hotmail.com <horsecrazy22@hotmail.com>
Cc: ridecamp@endurance.net <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Date: Sunday, June 27, 1999 10:33 PM
Subject: RC: Cheap horses


>How much do you think a horse like this is worth? Especially when he was
>asking for an older horse,  one that's proven it's reliable, dependable,
>sound even in it's late teens or early twenties......things like this don't
>just happen. Bad horses get sent to the auction. Unsound ones break down
and
>get put down. Unhealthy ones die. When you get a horse that is what he was
>asking for...pushbutton, sound, well conformed, registered or not, with
>enough age on him to be smarter than the rider......you have a horse that
is
>literally worth it's weight in gold.

Most of that is true BUT...
Not ALL BAD horses go to auction!! and then most go to slaughter...there
have been many GOOD horses, sound horses,CALM well behaved w/ kid horses
sent to aution then slaughter bound... some people don't apprieciate these
kind of horses. After the intrest in said horse dies....  or the ability to
feed and care for one becomes too much? There have been many GOOD horses
rescude from the feed lots.. many for under $1000. Go take a look at the
AHRN home page.. or any other rescue net work web page. Instead of slamming
this person { you don't know if the 12 yr. olds wrote it or not} you should
have said..yeah Right! Sorry I'm not selling MY horses for that price.. you
gotta be Joking.. but if your not... go look at the rescue boards... who
knows take your time get help looking for one.. you MIGHT get lucky.  I
know... because I LOST a couple carry three kids at a time, do anything, go
anywhere, follow like a puppy, hug me love me...20+ yr olds when my step
father decided to sell everything off when mom died.. they went thru an
auction.. then poof.. i couldnt' find them by the time I found out. I would
have GIVEN those old gals to someone who could GARUANTEE a home for life
instead of what happened...{the thought of possible slaughter} Could have
they been lucky enough to have someone refer a stranger to a rescue board? I
can understand everyones piont for not selling their golden horses :) for
that price...{ if i had my girls back.. I Never would have}  it did look
like a front ... but maybe... just maybe those kids wrote that? At least
lets hope they did...and it wasn't a front for a killer buyer.


Debi & Knevermore
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