05/23/2025
Sometimes we get in over our head.
Sometimes you get in over your head before you realize it.
The other day mom saw an ad for 5 animals needing a home. Most of the animals appeared in fair condition except for one mare advertised as a Mustang.
She was terribly emaciated, with her bones pushing through her hair and skin.
We contacted the owner and worked out an agreed price and day to pick up.
When we arrived we didn’t feel anger towards the owner, we didn’t try to criticize her for the condition of the horse. “We listened”
Her and her husband knew there was a problem with the mare, but due to cut backs at work and life, they didn’t have the funds to have a vet come to the do an exam.
Lack of funds also made it hard to buy feed and hay. (Although they had a “small” area of grass)
The mare had a one year old filly on her side that the lady originally was wanting to try to keep, but agreed to let us take her and the others as well, since she had just discovered she is going to have a baby herself. We renegotiated the price for the 6 animals, paid her the agreed price loaded the mare, her baby, a gelding, a donkey annnnd two pigs and headed back to the farm.
The lady stood there still upset as we pulled out, mainly because she felt she had failed them, she kept repeating “I know this is what’s best” (and speaking from experience in part because her pregnant hormones were running high)
Now I’ve already had a few to not understand why we didn’t call the authorities. Welllll have you ever called the sheriff’s department for a livestock abuse case? I have and won’t do it again unless it’s the last resort.
Livestock dies waiting on help from the courts.
They don’t consider livestock, pets or even living breathing animals, they consider them property. The court system is too slow and these babies need help before the next court date. That’s why I do everything I can to work with the owners to agree on a fair price. (If you disagree with my methods you may want to unfollow, because you’ll stay upset 24/7. I’ve said multiple times my focus is on the animals not the person responsible for the state they are in, I’ll leave that to someone else)
Do I consider myself rewarding the owner by paying for the horse. Nope, I consider me doing what I can as fast as I can to help the animals in need. My offers are generally lower than slaughter price, but I have paid a little more to get a horse away from a bad situation, faster
Do I consider buying a horse, rescuing a horse? Can you honestly look at this horse and say, because I paid for her, that I didn’t rescue her?
I’ll post a video later today of all the others.
We are still short $990 to cover all the animal’s initial cost.
Update $865 needed
Update $715 needed
Update $660 needed
Update $520 needed
Update $365 needed
Update $290 needed
Update -0- needed. Their initial cost has been covered. You guys are “awesomeness”
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