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Pashon2001
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Posted - 07 Nov 2011 : 6:40:01 PM

Some of you may remember that I rescued/bought a grey arab mare off the back of a meat lorry, with her next stop being the slaughter house.

She was emaciated (the picture was taken 2/3 weeks after arrival)and had a healing broken neck. Well I would like to tell all that she is very fat and very happy now. Her neck will stay deformed but it doesnt appear to affect her in any way, and as long as she is happy thats all that matters. She is a very sweet mare and put up with a lot of poking prodding and needles in all manner of places from the vet in those first few weeks. However she seemed to very easily get stressed, for example if food was apparent (I can understand that) and if her best friend (my young stallion) was not in her immediate vision. Then as the weather has deteriated although she did nothing wrong or bad it was obvious she did not enjoy being stabled, although over the last month of only enclosing her for an hour or so she is improving dramatically.
Well having got to know her and the way she behaves I decided to try and find out if I could a bit about her background. This was hard as I didnt want people I contacted to think I was accusing them of her condition. So off I set armed with her previous registered owners details and a 2/3 yrs missing before she came to me. It seems her life has for a large part been an extremely unhappy one.
She was bred by Gucci, now we all know the awful conditions that these horses found themselves in and that a lot were auctioned off when something was finally done about it. She was bought by a good and reputable person who kept her well and bred a couple of foals from her, then as often happens she was sold on to a stud not in england, who also bought quite a few very expensive and well bred horses to 'start out'. As is often the case maybe they became bored of the horses, I did find out that the husband worked away practically all the time and the wife was an alcoholic. Anyways, all the horses became extremely ill, were not fed and starving and a gentlemen (not particularly an arab person but had a few horses) knew about this and went to buy one (as it turned out it was Anna). The horses had not been out of the stables for a year and they had to get a mini digger in to dig the muck out of the door ways before the horses could be released. All the horses were sold off to various homes, this gentleman bought Anna and took her home. He got her well and he too bred a foal from her, but with work commitments and his family growing up and showing less interest in helping him he decided some of the horses had to go. She was sold to a millionaire who he thought would give her a perfect home...........after about a yr or so (he can't remember exactly) this man was convicted of child abuse and jailed. It is difficult to know at this point if the horses were already neglected or if the neglect came about after he was convicted, either way many were dead and the ones remaining were in pitiful condition. It seems likely that the police or other officiating unit seized the animals, and also very likely they were soon or immediately auctioned off. Hence her ending up on a meat wagon. No one seems to know when or where she broke her neck (it wasnt the meat lorry as it was semi healed)
Having found all this out I can see the tears in her eyes, I can understand the panic at the sight of food,her loathing of stables, and her upset if a friend goes where she can't see it.And for all that she has remained sweet, friendly and loving.
Its a cruel, cruel, cruel, cruel world.

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Edited by - Pashon2001 on 13 Nov 2011 11:50:58 AM

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pat day
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Posted - 07 Nov 2011 : 6:53:52 PM

My goodness.

No wonder she goes into herself when she 'thinks'

Well done you, on persisting to find out more about her.
I hope she has many happy years with you, without 'having' to reproduce just because probably, she has a great pedigree.

Thanks Very Much for the Update.

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