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Post by icehorse on Sept 13, 2009 11:58:09 GMT -5
Last night while we were moving the last of our gates, panels, troughs and stuff from our old house, 3 horses came down the hill that were not part of the wild herd.
One was a pretty, but skinny paint mare with a foal and a sorrel gelding(maybe?). I called to the mare and she came right over to me. She looked desperate to be back with humans. She followed me right in the gate not caring if her foal came too. She loved scritches and let me pet her all over and even lift her feet, check her teeth and fix her mane. The little colt wouldn't come close enough for me to see what it was and it started to walk away, so I put her back outside the gate(of our old front yard) to stay with her baby.
What I wanted to do is call my friend down the street and halter them and take them home...however the people that lived there refused to give me a phone to call (cell phones don't work out there), so I had to just go home. It just tore me apart to leave them out there. She clearly wanted to be captured. I think she'll die if she's out there any longer. She was very skinny and there are alot of mountain lions out there. The people that live there now say Oh she'll be fine, we want her to stay out there so we can look at her. These are the same people that thought my friesian mare and foal would be just fine in the small front yard(which was barbed wire at the time or to just run with the wild horses and --well that's another story. Right now it's just killing me knowing she's out there wandering around right next to the road. And the animal control down there really don't do anything for anyone.
What would you do?
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Post by bridgetah on Sept 13, 2009 12:17:31 GMT -5
Is this a BLM herd? Contact someone who is familiar with the laws re BLM managed herds and find out who to contact re this clearly domestic mare. I believe that you could get permission to capture her. Here is a list of LRTC mentors. Someone on that list will know who to contact. www.whmentors.org/men/mentrlst.htmlAnne |
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Post by TashGaia on Sept 13, 2009 13:33:57 GMT -5
Can't you just go back and get her?
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Post by jenm on Sept 13, 2009 13:45:52 GMT -5
Can't you just go back and get her? I'm with Tash. Contact your friend, grab your trailer and go get them. Please keep us posted! |
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Post by piopico on Sept 13, 2009 20:43:03 GMT -5
I think her new place is a goodly distance from the old one.
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Post by icehorse on Sept 14, 2009 2:06:07 GMT -5
I plan on going back tomorrow to see what I can do. At least put them in the pasture and feed them. It's about an hour and 20 minutes, but it crosses state lines so that might make it more complicated with horses I don't own...
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Post by gypsyrn on Sept 14, 2009 9:33:32 GMT -5
She sounds like she was domestic, so you're not picking up a BLM horse but a starving abandoned/loose horse. Better it be taken and cared for, obviously she is not adapting to being with the wild herd and as you say will end up starving to death or being cat food. If you know where she is, go hang with the trailer, hay and bring them home. If the Ca boarder says anything say you caught them wandering, and plan on contacting Ca animal control, but were concerned for their safety, being close to the roads etc.
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Post by paintedlady on Sept 14, 2009 14:38:34 GMT -5
I plan on going back tomorrow to see what I can do. At least put them in the pasture and feed them. It's about an hour and 20 minutes, but it crosses state lines so that might make it more complicated with horses I don't own... Any updates Icehorse !! So many unwanted horses |
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Post by icehorse on Sept 14, 2009 18:24:13 GMT -5
She was definitely someone's horse. She acted more broke than a couple of mine. The wild horses do fine out there, but she and her adorable foal won't. I just couldn't make it today, but will go tomorrow morning. I left a very nice bale of alfalfa and instructed the lady to give the horses a flake or two tonight if she sees them. I'll bring halters and catch them tomorrow if I can. I'll take pics too, she is very pretty, dark bay tobiano, and her foal is a chestnut tobiano.
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Post by gypsyrn on Sept 15, 2009 2:37:56 GMT -5
bring them home..... I'll find room!!!
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Post by icehorse on Sept 15, 2009 17:45:44 GMT -5
Well crap. I went there today hoping to catch the horses and waited around 5 hours. No show. Drove around the mountain looking for them and just didn't find them. Maybe they've made their way back home(I can only hope). So I left a halter there and the hay and hopefully I've convinced the lady that the mare does not want to roam free. I'll keep you guys updated.
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Post by icehorse on Oct 28, 2009 20:41:46 GMT -5
Someone picked up the mare and foal a couple weeks ago...thank goodness she survived. I hadn't seen her in weeks and I was heartbroken and couldn't get her out of my mind. My friend phoned today because she got ahold of the original owner. She explained to him how I caught her and checked her teeth, feet, etc without a rope or halter of any kind, and he said if she can do that she can have her. That mare hated me(he is the rough cowboy type) so let her know she can have her and maybe the foal too. so I'll find out in the next few days if he hasn't changed his mind when he sees them. That foal was pretty fantastic looking. I will gladly take them both , heck I seem to be collecting paint horses lately anyhow.
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Post by Maverick~Zora on Oct 29, 2009 11:10:41 GMT -5
What happened to the sorrel gelding?
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Post by icehorse on Oct 29, 2009 11:23:53 GMT -5
I don't know. I saw the herd the other day, but couldn't quite tell if it was him or not. There are 2 silver dapple babies that are just adorable. The owner of the RV place there has started feeding them I heard. He's a multi multi millionaire, and he loves horses, so they should be safe there. They do just roam free though and have been for years. Their feet look great, and you wouldn't believe how they full-on run up and down those rocky mountain sides like goats.
It's an hour and a half drive, so I don't go down there very often any more, but I have friends that will keep an eye out. Luckily word gets around that town quickly and that's how we found out whose horses they are.
There are also alot of people there that can't afford their horse anymore and are letting them go. What happened with the paint mare, is someone intentionally left her at a friends house, and she got out. since it's free range, I guess he never bothered to go out and find her before she got so thin:(
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Post by icehorse on Oct 30, 2009 19:30:57 GMT -5
Apparently the owner of the paint mare and foal owns approx 60 head of horses. Well, he did. I was devastated today to learn that he sold 50 of them to slaughter last week. I won't rest until that mare and foal are here with me:(
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