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[RC] OT-HomeMade Horse Trailer - heidi larsonMy first horse was delivered to the fishing resort where I grew up. My uncle sold her to my dad for $100 and threw in the tack. I think he may have ripped us off!! Babe was a 27 year old, bay, sway-backed QH that had had way too many babies and no health care to speak of. She was delivered in the back of a ranch pick-up with wooden rails. I still remember her coming up the driveway, looking over the cab of the truck. She had travelled from Quincy, Wa. to just past Little Fort, B.C. Canada. Probably a 10 hour drive. She was so sway-backed. My uncle probably couldn't get any more foals from her. She ran loose over our leased acreage, wandering amongst the cabins at night, scaring the customers who'd get up to use the outhouse in the night, or rubbing her head on the side of their cabins, also scaring them to death. City folk!! :) She lived with us for about 2 years and then one day my dad said there were some campers with lots of kids that wanted an old horse and that he'd given her to them since we had trouble finding places to winter her when we came back down to the states. A couple years before my dad passed away I asked him if that story was really true. He was a tough little irishman, rarely given to tears, but he started to cry and said he'd seen buzzards circling off the main road one day when he'd gone to town for groceries and supplies. Had gotten out and looked and she was laying there dead. He said it looked like she'd just lain down and died, he never saw any wounds or anything. I'm really surprised looking back that she made it that long, she came from a working wheat and cattle ranch and health care was the last thing that the horses would ever see! But that day that truck drove up that driveway was one of the best days of my life! I was about 9 or 10 years old. heidi larson --- sherman <sherman@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: When I was a kid it was common to see horses in the back of a pick-up with wooden rails. I even had a horse delivered that way. I sure wouldn't do it now. Kathy
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