Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Annie- Life was too short, and she will always be loved

This is Annie. I bought Annie at age 6 months old. She was cute but goofy looking. Foals go through many awkward stages. I was Annie's 5th owner, and she was only 6 months old when I bought her. Kind of sad. At 4 months of age she was suppose to go to horse slaughter with her mom. The mom went, but Annie was saved! I did a bunch of ground work with Annie. Teaching her the basics: getting groomed with brushes all over her body, picking out her hooves, using clippers around her legs and her ears and her muzzle, she was great with loading in the horse trailer.

Unfortunately, Annie had too short of a life. When she was almost 3 years old, I took Annie to a trainer that I had used before. On the first day of training Annie fell down while being tied up. After a long story of information, we found Annie had 4 fractures in her pelvis due to the fall. After many tears, Annie was put down. Now Annie is up in Heaven grazing on billions of acres of green grass
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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Annie was lucky to finally find you and your family. Although the time was brief, you will never forget her and in that way she lives on. Thanks for sharing. Her story is spreading.

Mrs. Page said...

I love the story of Annie. Why does a horse end up going to slaughter?

Sarah said...

Heidi- unfortunately, the horse market is really bad right now, and horses are getting sold to Canada and Mexico for slaughter. People make money for horse meat :(