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SPIRRAH - 2-4 y/o - 15.1h - Chestnut Filly
Post by foxie on Sept 8, 2006, 7:07am

Spirrah is a 15.1hh filly. She is approximately 3-4yrs old. She is gentle on the ground and opened her mouth so we could look at her teeth. She seems very quick and smart to pick up new things.

$625.00


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Re: SPIRRAH - 2-4 y/o - 15.1h - Chestnut Filly
Post by foxie on Sept 8, 2006, 7:08am

More Pictures -






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Re: SPIRRAH - 2-4 y/o - 15.1h - Chestnut Filly
Post by mkgbuegel on Oct 10, 2006, 12:40pm

Congratulations!!!! on your new horse.
-Michelle
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Spirrah- 3-4 y/o- 15.1h - Chestnut QH Filly
Post by cybercat on Sept 7, 2006, 7:58pm

Spirrah is a 15.1hh filly. She is approximately 3-4yrs old. She is gentle on the ground and opened her mouth so we could look at her teeth. She seems very quick and smart to pick up new things.



Adopter- GRATEFULKNITS

QT- GRATEFULKNITS

Transport- GRATEFULKNITS

Bail Amount- $625.00

Bail Pledged-[/b] $625.00

GONE TO CALIFORNIA WITH SPECKLES!


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Re: Spirrah- $625 Needed
Post by cybercat on Sept 16, 2006, 5:05pm

not yet...there is some interest in Spirrah by someone who would be adopting her, but it is always preferable to have a back up home offer in place in case she is not adopted before shipping...would you be fully adopting her by yourself or are you offering a home in case we all need to send donations to save her? I'm not sure if you are new to CBER, but someone who is approved and can outright adopt the horse has priority over a Group Adoption. Group Adoptions are the 'Safety Net' to save a horse as a last resort...
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Re: Spirrah- $625 Needed
Post by gratefulknits on Sept 16, 2006, 7:24pm

I'm working like mad to get boarding arranged THIS WEEKEND so I can submit a complete app and adopt Spirrah and Speckles. Failing that I plan to bail them both out and hope someone can offer one or both a home until I get approved or someone else gets them. Just so's ya know... Anyone able to board or "babysit" either or both girl for me?
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Re: Spirrah- $625 Needed
Post by EileenM on Sept 16, 2006, 7:57pm

Fill out the app NOW, and get pics in before hand.... makes life MUCH easier, trust me, I know this

Good luck !!!!
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Re: Spirrah- $625 Needed
Post by cybercat on Sept 16, 2006, 8:17pm

good luck, gratefulknits! You have a golden heart...I'm sure some nice CBERite would be able to board them for their quarantine period and perhaps longer...
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Re: Spirrah- $625 Needed
Post by gratefulknits on Sept 17, 2006, 8:41am

Thanks cybercat! Any advice on how to get that ball rolling? I'm off to look at 2 boarding places this am. I have to get one ok'd before I can send in the app, because I'll need their contact info, vet, farrier, etc! Otherwise I'd have sent in the app last week. Keep your fingers crossed for me, Speckles and Spirrah. And send me any and all advice on getting this done! PM me or direct email (listed under my profile) Thanks!
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Re: Spirrah- $625 Needed
Post by calypso on Sept 17, 2006, 9:19am

gratefulknits, thank you for your interest in Spirrah and Spreckles!


Yay!! Your in California! Petaluma!! Whoopee!! (not too far away from me) Have you talked to Katie? She posts as watermarkfarms. She might be a little far for you, but she may know someone closer. Or pm nknight (nancik) - she seems to be pretty connected in up in your neck of the woods.

I'll pm you with my direct contact info - anything I can do to help, please let me know!!

Caly
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Re: Spirrah- $625 Needed
Post by gratefulknits on Sept 17, 2006, 9:24am

Caly, I'm looking in Petaluma, California. I've got several good leads and am off to see at least 2 places today. The barbed wire restriction has knocked a couple places off the list but I'm working on it!
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Re: Spirrah- $625 Needed
Post by calypso on Sept 17, 2006, 9:29am

Yeah, I saw after I posted. Katie is in Santa Rosa - actually closer than I thought!

I'll pm you with her contact info too. She's an approved adopter, so that would speed up your approve - if she has room.

Caly
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Re: Spirrah- PENDING!
Post by swissgrl on Sept 20, 2006, 12:08pm

Congrats gratefulknits!!!
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Re: Spirrah- PENDING!
Post by gratefulknits on Sept 20, 2006, 3:34pm

Thanks! And thanks to all of you on your support with this big decision. I've found them a beautiful home - big pasture with shelter, arena, and ability to move to a stall down the road, on a ranch owned by a lifelong horsewoman. Can't wait for them to get here!
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Re: Spirrah- PENDING!
Post by NanciK on Sept 20, 2006, 3:48pm

gk - Sounds like heaven on earth!

With another shipment pending on 9/25, can you drum up any additional interest from your NorCal friends/colleagues/neighbors to consider some of the additional 24 horses (+ 2 foals) still on the feedlot?

We can raise funds here to help with bail/transport, etc.....but we need HOMES!
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Re: Spirrah- ADOPTED!
Post by gratefulknits on Oct 23, 2006, 2:24pm

Spirrah is home! She's home, she's home, she's home! She and Speckles arrived this morning; as the truck pulled up the long drive way at the ranch, I started crying and that dang video camera jiggled all over like jelly. But my beautiful girls are here. I've never been so happy in my life. I really thought I'd be scared and nervous today, but honestly I've never been so sure of a decision as I am of the decision to save these 2 girls. As I told them this morning when I was sitting by their pens hanging out "From here on out, it's nothing but love and food!" I'm so happy, you guys! Can't stop crying with joy. Bless you all, CBER-ites. More later, must go back to the ranch to visit with my babes.
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Re: Spirrah- ADOPTED!
Post by jenm on Oct 23, 2006, 2:54pm

WHERE ARE THE PICTURES?! <drumming fingers on desk...>
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Re: Spirrah- ADOPTED!
Post by swissgrl on Oct 24, 2006, 6:54am

YEAH, WE WANT PICTURES...... PLLLLLLLEEEEEEEEAAAAAAASSSSSSSEEE!!!!!!!!
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Re: Spirrah- ADOPTED!
Post by gratefulknits on Oct 25, 2006, 1:35pm

Sheesh, don't you think I have better things to do than figure out how to use Photobucket? Criminy, I have 2 beautiful girls who must be constantly admired, oohed and aahed over, and talked about!

All kidding aside, there will be pictures, I'm hoping tonight, cross your fingers that I can figure it all out!
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Re: Spirrah- ADOPTED!
Post by jenm on Oct 25, 2006, 1:48pm

jeez, between you and Caly, you're driving me crazy!! We want to admire and oooh and ahhhh too...

Fingers crossed for a successful photo posting.
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Re: Spirrah- ADOPTED!
Post by calypso on Oct 25, 2006, 2:00pm

HAH!!! See, it isn't just me!!

But, let me join to chorus...WE WANT PICTURES!!

And, jenn, you can just drive a couple miles and see the real deal with me!
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Re: Spirrah- ADOPTED!
Post by jenm on Oct 25, 2006, 2:04pm


Oct 25, 2006, 2:00pm, calypso wrote:
And, jenn, you can just drive a couple miles and see the real deal with me!



I'm so happy to be close to you and Tabby (and Angel!)

We may need to do a roadtrip if knits takes much longer getting her pictures up...
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Re: Spirrah- ADOPTED!
Post by whisper on Oct 25, 2006, 3:19pm

See, now aren't you two lucky to have Whisper around to shoot, edit, and post your pictures! Caly and I were joking around the other day about me becoming the norcal ceber photographer!

Whisper
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Re: Spirrah- ADOPTED!
Post by sundancer on Oct 28, 2006, 12:45pm

Eh, hum......pictures?

How about an update?
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Re: Spirrah- 3-4 y/o- 15.1h - Chestnut QH Filly
Post by jenm on Oct 28, 2006, 7:51pm

Still no pictures?!

whisper, prepare yourself for a roadtrip!

This could turn into your second job...
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Re: Spirrah- 3-4 y/o- 15.1h - Chestnut QH Filly
Post by gratefulknits on Oct 29, 2006, 8:15am

OK, OK! I promise I'll do it tonight! But I warn you that my photographic abilities are NOT going to make me consider giving up my day job! All I seem to get are butt shots, or faces buried in hay! My father is going to come out this week to meet the girls, and he takes great pix, so good pictures will come much later, but I will give you some teaser shots tonight!
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Re: Spirrah- 3-4 y/o- 15.1h - Chestnut QH Filly
Post by whisper on Oct 29, 2006, 8:38am

I'm thinking more like my 3rd or even 4th job! Now only if I didn't have that real job, and could be around the cats, dogs, and horses all the time.....

Whisper
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Re: Spirrah- 3-4 y/o- 15.1h - Chestnut QH Filly
Post by mkgbuegel on Nov 1, 2006, 11:00am

Got to meet & work with this one for a bit yesterday. Shes smart and very cute. I think she will make GFK a great riding partner in the not to distant future. Shes a very pretty girl, lots of energy.
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Re: Spirrah- 3-4 y/o- 15.1h - Chestnut QH Filly
Post by sundancer on Jan 19, 2007, 5:31am

Spirrah and Speckles are BOTH happy and healthy in their new home (and, kicking up their heels)...I can't wait to see them again (when it isn't raining and they don't run away from the umbrellas)!!!
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Re: Spirrah- 3-4 y/o- 15.1h - Chestnut QH Filly
Post by gratefulknits on Jan 19, 2007, 7:48am

But Sunni, weren't they beautiful running away from the umbrellas?! You and your hubby were such good sports for climbing up that hill in the wind, rain, and mud just to meet my lovelies. They are still checking my pockets to see if there are any more of Aunt Cheryl's cookies in there!
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[gratefulknits]

OK, so I've been a very very bad mommy in the updates and photos department! Let me just assure you all that I have NOT been a bad mommy in the things that my horses care about!

I'm posting tonight because this is a very emotional day for me. I know we have a truck circling the feedlot like a vulture over carrion, and our thoughts are with the horses still on the lot whose lives are in peril. I am praying for them all.

And through my prayers, and worry and tears for those horses, I am shedding tears tonight because it was one year ago today, that Pippin (CBER Spirrah) was ignobly dumped at the lot. It is her one year anniversary of a life changing event that didn't just change her life, but that changed my life as well. Her "sister" Gualala (CBER Speckles) was dumped on 9/2/06, and Pippin on 9/06/06. These girls came into my life just a short time after they arrived at the lot. I came upon CBER for the first time just before the girls arrived, didn't know anything about the old BB's, just the website. When I saw their pictures I knew what I had to do: something in those faces told me that their safety was my responsibility, no matter what it took. I wasn't ready to have a horse, let alone two, with no ownership experience, no place to keep them, and having just a few weeks earlier returned to being around horses after a many-years interruption. But I committed to them, via their photos, that if they weren't immediately swooped up I would save them: bail them for someone else, find a way to bring them to me, or whatever it would look like. I knew I had to save them.

In repayment, Pippin and Gualala have literally changed my life. I have struggled with true workaholism for years, and had virtually given up the battle as an inevitable loss. I have struggled with an almost pathologic inability to take care of myself. And I've struggled with terrible grief over my own inability to have a child.

Since my girls came in to my life, all of that has changed. It's true that I still work more than I should, but I am now able to say no to the excesses. I get myself out of my office almost every day in time to see my horses before their "bedtime". I am finding that not only does it feel good to take care of myself, but that my girls require that I do, because they need me! And the joy I find in being with, or even just thinking about, my girls has washed my grief from me like rain washes dust from the leaves of a tree. I am renewed, I am NEW.

I know that all of this is very intimate stuff, and may make some of you uncomfortable. But I also know that at some level or another, everyone in this community recognizes what I'm saying. Thank you for letting me express myself here, and for being my family.

And a very, very, very happy anniversary to the loves of my life: Pippin and Gualala. I love you, darling girls.

[emjay]

that's awesome, and what greater gift is that to those horses then the gift of being loved by someone like you. good for you.

ps. HAPPY ANNIVERSARY

[afinenettle]

Wow - that was a beautiful posting. Happy Anniversary. You know your girls - and now BOY - are as sweet as can be. Rhiannon has walked by and although they cannot touch noses yet - they are very pleased to make the acquaintance. THey do have alot of fun over there in the corner paddock. Lots of rockin' and rollin' going on there! And Gualala seems to have formed an old ladies committee with ConCon - the mission is to provide guidance to misdirected gelding youth.....

I can see your paddock from where I am performing my horse viewing at this time. I keep a lookout for attacking leaves so Rhiannon can nap......Hope to see ya soon!

[halfwayhome]

Happy Anniversary! Those horses are pretty happy you took the plunge! Thanks for sharing too, its amazing how soothing hugging a big neck that smells like horse is for a person! One time a gal got a horse from me that was young ( the horse that is) and she would come out and work with him as I kept him here for her. She had an abusive boyfriend and then found out she had cancer and she would come out and just cry alone with the horse, but it made her feel like she could go on. I did what I could for her, I will never forget her, she ended up giving me back the horse and leaving for AZ ( TG getting away from the boyfriend) and fought off her cancer down there. I heard from her for a while but then lost track. I know horses and having to care for them even when I don't feel good gets me out and going. So thanks Dr. Hope for finding us!

[gratefulknits]

Well, the thanks really should all be coming from me! This community means so much to me!

[kidznhorses]

Happy Anniversary to all 3 of you! Thank you so much for sharing your heart. Your story about how these two beautiful souls have touched your life is very inspiring. In saving their lives it sounds like they are repaying you with unconditional love every day.

Thanks for all you do for the horses! I know from personal experience what a wonderful person you truly are! Now how about posting some updated pictures! :0)

Kerrie

[sundancer]

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, AUNTIE!!!! I am so proud of you and your girls!

Yes, it has been a year already! For my girls, too! They are SO HAPPY in their new digs! Plenty of fresh air, nice breezes, mountain air....ahhhhhh.....the smell of pine trees! Just think. They were on the lot, too, a year ago.

Give them a smooch from me!

[gratefulknits]

So it's been almost a year since I posted anything on Pippin's (or Gualala's) threads! Cheryl (aka Sundancer) and her husband Art came up from SoCal to NorCal last month and came out to meet my herd, and they very graciously took lots of pictures. Cheryl has offered to post some here for me, since I don't have a digital camera, and since I can't even open photos on my home computer (anybody have any idea why that would be?)

The latest news on Pippin: Michelle (aka mkgbuegel) has been working with her for about 6 months, and they've made some wonderful progress on Pippin's ground work, her ability and willingness to be touched/groomed/trimmed, and just her general demeanor. Pippin has always been an affectionate horse who is afraid of contact! Quite a conundrum for her, and certainly frustrating and sometimes scary for me. But Michelle has made great breakthroughs with her.

The sad news is that it looks like Pippin will never be a riding horse. She seems to have had some kind of major trauma to her back end or her lower spine, and she is massively tender and flinchy about those areas. Michelle has noticed her lose coordination in her back legs with no more than the weight of a saddle on her back. Pippin was recently treated by the chiropractor, who feels very strongly that Pippin shouldn't be ridden. She (the chiro) has recommended that I send Pip over to UCDavis for evaluation, but I haven't decided about that yet. I'm inclined to think that if she can't be ridden, what will they be able to do or tell me at Davis that would change anything?

So ... training is on hold and Pippin is just hanging out at Michelle's for the time being. I do have a phone appointment with my vet for next week to run this all past him and get his thoughts on what to do next.

As sad as this has been for me (I've dreamed of being out on the trails with Pippin, and I've had to let that dream go), my girl is still happy and safe and that's how it will stay, as long as it's up to me!

Stay tuned for some pictures from Sundancer of my beautiful redhead! (who really is a TB, I'm sure, but ended up under QH's somehow)

[sundancer]

Here's Pippin! She sure has a LOT of personality! I really like this mare. And, yes, we think she is a half-sister or sister to Merryana, now Gigondas. Same build, coloring, head. They MUST be related!

[gratefulknits]

Top picture is pretty dreadful of me! But you can see that I had just found "the sweet spot" ... look at her upper lip! She was actually rocking back and forth to get more oompf out of the scratches!

Thanks for posting these Sunni, you're a better Aunt than I am a Mommy!

[sundancer]

I LOVED watching her "lip action"! She is such a funny girl!