horses :)

I caught a few shots of Emma and Cuesta today. They are doing good :) I am seriously debating breeding them next May for 2009 foals.

My sweet girl.
http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s...s/cuestaaa.jpg

I want to send this one to Country Magazine.
http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s...estabutted.jpg

And now for Emma. i admit, I have not been spending much time with her, and I was an inch away from selling her a few times because she is high-strung and so am I. But honestly, tonight I spent about an hour bonding and grooming her, and we are getting somewhere. She is not all bad :)
http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s...emmaeating.jpg
do be do be doo...
http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s...s/DSCF1120.jpg

Ok, I hate you now...:)

Horses are my absolute favorite animal. That chestnut is GORGEOUS!

Someday, when I have that refuge.... someday...

Thanks. I would SO love to have a horse refuge. If I could buy the land that we live/rent now, it'd be aweosme to just fence in 50 acres and go down to the auctions and save about 10 horses or so, wouldn't it? At this point, 2 is a nice number for us, and we probably won't breed them again.
These 2 were basically rescue cases. Cuesta was abandoned at my friend's farm, then she sold her to someone else, and that person brought her back months later, emaciated and skeletal. My friend nursed her back to health and we bought her (actually traded a log splitter for her!) in December 2005.
Emma was also dumepd off on my friend. She was barely handled as a youngster, and still has a schitzy and reactive temperament, but we work around that and she is mostly my fiancee's horse; he is so attached to her. :)

looks like your paint has half a medicine hat :D very nice pics!!! i miss our horses tons

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looks like your paint has half a medicine hat :D very nice pics!!! i miss our horses tons

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I always say that her medicine hat drooped a little, hehe. :)

Very pretty Gin! I've got two Paints for sale. ;) :P :P

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Thanks. I would SO love to have a horse refuge. If I could buy the land that we live/rent now, it'd be aweosme to just fence in 50 acres and go down to the auctions and save about 10 horses or so, wouldn't it? At this point, 2 is a nice number for us, and we probably won't breed them again.

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Yep, that's pretty much what I want to do...except add more acres and a lot more species of abandoned/mistreated animals. The goal is to have a refuge for mainly exotic species, i.e. those that people THINK are a 'cool pet' such as reptiles, large birds, wild hybrid cats and wolf hybrids. I also want to get my falconers license and work to rehab and train birds of prey.

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These 2 were basically rescue cases. Cuesta was abandoned at my friend's farm, then she sold her to someone else, and that person brought her back months later, emaciated and skeletal. My friend nursed her back to health and we bought her (actually traded a log splitter for her!) in December 2005.
Emma was also dumepd off on my friend. She was barely handled as a youngster, and still has a schitzy and reactive temperament, but we work around that and she is mostly my fiancee's horse; he is so attached to her. :)

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Too cool. :) I love hearing when people save animals...horses and reptiles especially. They deserve to live the good life too. You've done a really good job with those two.

I could go on about the stories behind these two :) Emma was unwanted and abandoned at my friend's barn where her "owners" boarded her and then they skipped town, sticking my friend with a huge boarding bill.. so my friend got legal ownership of her and sold Emma to us.
Cuesta went through a series of neglectful owners; during her time with these people, whe was neglected in the feet so badly that her shoes were left on as her feet grew and her feet have never been 100% right since. They are weirdly shaped and almost too round, and flary, no matter how they are trimmed..? I thought, I would love to buy her once she was rehabbed, but a girl who was a "horse expert" bought her from ym friend.. Well a few monhs later, I go to my friend's, and Cuesta is back, minus a couple of hundred pounds.. :( My friend rehabbed her yet again and finally we bought her and now she is, well, almost overweight :)

absolutely beautiful horses and i'm so proud to call you my friend jen!

Thanks! If yo're ever in my area for some reason, bring your kiddo down here to see them! :)