It's fall again and time for fair weather owners and those who can't stand it anymore to dump their unwanted animals on the rest of us. I know times are hard and it's hard to feed the critters, I'm talking about the owners who just didn't think the individual horse they got through. The two-year old out of my mare has been returned to me under the condition that she's too short, not growing and hard to manage. Well, the said filly has been abandoned in her pasture alone except for her daily feeding with no handling since we gave up her training completely at one year old because the owner wanted her to bond with him. At one year old Sassy had been saddled (15pound english saddle no rider), handled, tied, feet can be picked up, led, you name it she did it. But 27 months came around and she's 12.2hh. Not 15.2. So he gives her to me, says come get her (100 mile trip one way), I bring her to where Doll is boarded, no round pen and stall kept with turnout. And lo and behold two weeks later her manners are back, she bathes in a bath stall, good barn manners for a two-year old that's always been in a pasture. And she's a nice little low- key riding pony. Nothing heavy. Not for very long. Just to get her there. He's under the impression I'll keep "the poor stunted thing" forever. I'm under that impression too. How do you sell a two-year old in the fall? Not to dump her on anyone else... But she wasn't in my plans. Doll and I have our understandings. She has a retirement home and I slave to her. But what does a person that's 5'8" do with a 12.2hh pony?? I look 10 feet tall on her.lol. I guess I'll hold my breath for someone brave enough to buy before winter and if not suck up the fees til spring. Or trade her out for something bigger...lol... By the way, no she wasn't my backyard-breeding attempt. She was the foal Doll had a month after her rescue... Nothing like starvation to produce a stunted foal... Grrr... 

 Happy Trails,

         Deadra & Doll & now introducing Sassy......  

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