Slowly and dilligently we have been collecting and adopting new family members. The difference between us and most young couples, our new additions mostly have 4 legs and range in size from 4lbs to 1500lbs and I would not have it any other way. AND TODAY THE MUSTANGS CAME!! I "adopted" or "paid" for 2 mustangs about 2 weeks ago. A yearling mare from WY and a 4 yr old gelding from CA. I have been excitedly waiting their arrival to normandy and this morning they came thundering out of the trailor. Only problem, one of the horses was the wrong one! Our gelding happened to be a mare! And thus started a long morning of trying to seperate the two terrified horses by loading the second mare to go back to the BLM. With 2 grown men and 3 women we tried to create a shoot for her to load into the trailor, unforturnately she went up and over one of the men and over the fence!! The whole process is hard, the horses are more scared than you can imagine any animal showing and the trauma of seperation from heard to individual breaks your heart. What is even worse tonight is knowing the one mare has to go through it all over again tomorrow when they take her back and bring the correct gelding. I was trying to rally a quick adoptor-saying we could call them 'jack and jill' (they are the same color "sorrel" which caused some of the confusion to start with). More updates tomorrow when we see how this story concludes. The mare with the white face is Issabelle and is TOO cute!
Slowly and dilligently we have been collecting and adopting new family members. The difference between us and most young couples, our new additions mostly have 4 legs and range in size from 4lbs to 1500lbs and I would not have it any other way. AND TODAY THE MUSTANGS CAME!! I "adopted" or "paid" for 2 mustangs about 2 weeks ago. A yearling mare from WY and a 4 yr old gelding from CA. I have been excitedly waiting their arrival to normandy and this morning they came thundering out of the trailor. Only problem, one of the horses was the wrong one! Our gelding happened to be a mare! And thus started a long morning of trying to seperate the two terrified horses by loading the second mare to go back to the BLM. With 2 grown men and 3 women we tried to create a shoot for her to load into the trailor, unforturnately she went up and over one of the men and over the fence!! The whole process is hard, the horses are more scared than you can imagine any animal showing and the trauma of seperation from heard to individual breaks your heart. What is even worse tonight is knowing the one mare has to go through it all over again tomorrow when they take her back and bring the correct gelding. I was trying to rally a quick adoptor-saying we could call them 'jack and jill' (they are the same color "sorrel" which caused some of the confusion to start with). More updates tomorrow when we see how this story concludes. The mare with the white face is Issabelle and is TOO cute!
2 Comments:
Em, something about that picture brings me back 6 years to the days of mona and juliet. :)
im so jelous of you Em. I've always loved horses and always dreamed of owning some someday. You are so lucky! Maybe ill have to come visit sometime so i can go riding with you! heheh Its fun checking out your blog and seeing what you are both up to.
nicola
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