Quote Originally Posted by Ginevive
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.
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.

Quote Originally Posted by Ginevive
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.
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.