Re: Filly Update - she's HOME !

["kristine hammond" <tinka@reno.quik.com>]

I am sooooo glad to hear a good story.  Good luck!!!
Kriss

----- Original Message -----
From: <Louisa_Pierce@ne.3com.com>
To: <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Cc: <Cslinn@media100.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2000 11:19 AM
Subject: RC: Filly Update - she's HOME !


>
>
>
> I just got back from getting the Filly (Miss Pam)  She is beautiful!  A
lovely
> Rose Grey /
> Strawberry Roan combo.   When we got there she was still on the trailer
from the
> night before,
> she walked off quietly and she was/is very sweet.  She had drank, she was
alert,
> and she
> wanted to eat grass, no coughing and no snotty nose.  (all good signs)
>
> She is extremely quit.  She is very under weight - then again I have seen
some
> 100 mile
> horses that look just like her, so some may think she is a perfect weight,
but I
> think she is
> skinny.  Yes her feet are very long in the toe and no heel - which gives
her
> pasterns a
> very long look, but I hope w/ some proper shoeing her pasterns will look
much
> better.
>
> We asked her to walk up in a strange 2 horse straight load - and up and in
she
> went, and she
> stood like an angle and was a perfect guest for the ride home.
>
> She was not sure how to come off the trailer, but she did it w/ out a
fuss.  We
> walked her around
> and again, the sweetness in this horse is unreal!   We found a nice stall
far
> away from all
> the other horses (vet comes tomorrow) and she drank more and she ate a 1/2
qt of
> pellets
> while she munched the hay.
>
> She has a super trot, the kind I love - when they spread their legs real
wide
> and GO.  Her back is
> a little long and I think her croup may be a little low, but everything is
so
> hard to tell right now
> with her being so thin.
>
> I hope she vets out and gets nice and healthy.  I hope to make her my next
> CTR/LD horse.  I
> just fell in love w/ her the moment I saw her.  Then again Caroline's Boy
Friend
> is also in love
> with her and the whole barn seemed fasinated - so I may have to fight for
her -
> hehehe
>
> If she does not vet out, Caroline will keep her (so don't worry, she is
not
> going anywhere if she
> does not vet out)  but I really don't see why she would not.  She has no
> windpuffs and no
> splints and not bowed tendons - something I expected from her life so far.
>
> Caroline and I are very excited!!   We were so glad to help this little
girl.
> This makes sending
> all those donations to PETA and Hoofed Aminal Assoc worth it.
>
> Louisa, Caroline and Miss PAM!
>
>
>
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