Phelan, CA: Two Draft Horses (Belgian and Shire/Paint Cross) Need Home ASAP

To: [email protected]

Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 11:51 PM

Subject: Re: big horses and small finances

On Jul 26, 2011, at 9:48 PM, Diane Demmitt <[email protected]> wrote:

Name   Diane Demmitt Phone   (760)949-8291 Email   [email protected] Subject   big horses and small finances Message   Hello, I have the grim task this next week of putting down two big mares, one a grade Belgian mare and the other a beautiful Shire / Paint cross mare. I’m sure this is not an unusual circumstance in these times but I am truly struck by the huge tragedy of the waste of their lives. They are both sound and in excellent health and only suffer from an owner who is in failing health and can’t afford them any longer. Mercedes, the spotted Shire cross has never even had a chance at life. My stepdaughter brought her from Montana, paid $6,000 as a weanling and has long since lost interest in her. I am no longer capable of working with the horses, doctors orders. She has always been well handled but not yet ridden. She is about five. Getting her started will be easy. She tries very hard to please. Bonnie, the Belgian mare, was being ridden by a teenage girl with a halter and lead rope in a round pen when we went to look at her but since she came here five years ago, she hasn’t done anything. She had just weaned a foal when we bought her and those people bought her in Virginia. She is not a PMU mare. I believe she is about twelve years old. I don’t really know how much training she has had but she had a typical draft horse attitude. I will put them down rather than have them be handed from home to home or worse, stand in someone’s yard and slowly starve but I wanted to at least have checked with all the safe places I could think of before the vet comes. I’m sure you folks are knee deep in horses but if you could at least let me know. I can send photos if you would like to see them. Thank you, Diane Demmitt Phelan, CA