Re: EQ-ResQ: VA arabians available--update

["Michelle Eddy" <meddy@rcvideo.com>]

Thanks, Melissa, for clearing this up.

Michelle Eddy
C & M Equine Rescue
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ranch/9036/


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> From: sylke <sylke@blacksburg.net>
> To: Michelle Eddy <meddy@rcvideo.com>; Ridecamp <ridecamp@endurance.net>
> Subject: Re: EQ-ResQ: VA arabians available--update
> Date: Thursday, January 28, 1999 8:26 AM
> 
> I am sorry, but I have not "bailed" out of helping... I am in the process
of
> caring for my own horse that is injured and needs my help more than these
> Arabs at the moment.  The pictures I took of them are now developed and I
am
> in the process of scanning them in.
> 
> Please keep the facts straight.
> Melissa
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michelle Eddy <meddy@rcvideo.com>
> To: Ridecamp <ridecamp@endurance.net>
> Date: Wednesday, January 27, 1999 5:18 PM
> Subject: Fw: EQ-ResQ: VA arabians available--update
> 
> 
> >Forwarding this with permission (I have not seen these horses)
> >
> >Michelle Eddy
> >C & M Equine Rescue
> >http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ranch/9036/
> >
> >
> >----------
> >> From: Diane Barron <boggydog@webtv.net>
> >> To: equinerescue@MyList.net
> >> Subject: EQ-ResQ: VA arabians available--update
> >> Date: Wednesday, January 27, 1999 7:45 AM
> >>
> >> Betti and the List:
> >> I DID see all of these horses...the man who owns them lives VERY well
in
> >> a house that is a gorgeous Victorian fully restored to the nines...and
> >> yes, he switches the prices when you are there...What the situation
is,
> >> is that he has bred himself into a hole...all the horses are small,
fed
> >> and cared for poorly, every one of these horses has a serious
> >> conformational defect...they are not Varian bred...they are all INBRED
> >> to his one, skinny, sad  and old stallion and three mares that he had
> >> started out with ten years ago...in other words all the horses are
VERY
> >> closely related, and one mare is a brother sister mating, bred back to
> >> her grandsire. This person just bred cheaply and he wants help from
> >> sympathetic rescuers to get out of his predictament. The girl that
> >> originally posted the request has pretty much bailed out of helping
> >> him...I expect that these horses will be sneeked into auctions one by
> >> one in undisclosed locations, anonymously as he can get slaughter
prices
> >> on them...this is not uncommon...happens with a lot of
> >> breeders...Melissa just happened to stumble in on one of the many...if
> >> this man fed and cared for the horses properly and bred them
> >> discriminately, he would not have this situation...bottom line is that
> >> this man wants to be an Arabian breeder without paying the price...I
> >> will answer any questions about my visit...Diane
> >>
> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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> >> "Recycling at-risk youth and horses for their future..."
> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >>
> >>
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