Nov Auction: Going into Saturday...

Yesterday was awful. Arriving at the sale barn knowing a third truck was coming and my hands were tied with 6-7 horses MAX, due to them already having the contract made up with the plant so they HAD to ship the truck. It was sickening. We didnt even have all of the draft work horses fundraised for from the second truck that they shipped out, so to add on another 5-6 horses is just A LOT. Thank God Dawn from Moon Mountain reached out to take one more draft horse to help. That made 7 we could work on to keep from shipping.

The six horses we ended up pulling are:

-- a 15/16 year old stud we have named Hogan

-- a young buckskin gelding we have named Harrington

-- a little sorrel mare with an infected scrape dup nose named Ann

-- a buckskin paint who seems friendly we have named Marla

-- a paint pony who at the last mintue let me pet her, who we have named Debbie

-- and the sweetest, most terrified paint mare we have named Nora

We have only raised the funds so far for Nora and.Harrington. We are still working on the remaining 5 horses and cannot get them safe and off the property until they are fundraised for. We currently have:

--$2829 left to raise for Marla

-- $769 left to raise for Ann

-- $4912 left to raise for Hogan

--$5000 left to raise for Debbie

It sounds like a lot but when we all work together miracles like this, HAPPEN! We see it month after month as we all come together to save lives and do so much good.

I cannot tell you how many times I sit on Saturday and am so defeated feeling like we are not going to be able to do and help everyone I have down on my list, and how incredible all of you are and how you step up and come Monday morning I am staring at my list of all the horses we rescued during the weekends auction and from the direct ship to slaughter pen and am floored at how amazing YOU all are.

After the truck left yesterday another truck pulled in with a whole trailer filled with wild unhandled horses that had been breeding in someones back yard or at their ranch. By wild I dont mean WILD horses, I mean they are unhandled. A lot of people get this confused. The term WILD simply means unhandled. If they are BLM wild mustangs I will always mention that to denote the difference to everyone.

A quick breakdown for those of you who may not quite understand, because it is alot!

-- BLM wild horses: the wild horses everyone thinks about when they think 'wild horses', they are branded on their necks with an ID that can be traced through the BLM management program

-- Indian reservation wild horses: wild horses on Reservation land

-- Forest Department Wild Horses: horses under the supervision of the forest dept.

-- wild, unhandled horses: anyones back yard or ranch that are unhandled

Back to yesterday: A truck pulled in with about 15 wild horses that had been breeding on their property. The stud got his leg caught in the chute when they were taking his blood and it snapped completely in half when it got caught in the fence. They had to euthenize him immediately because he was in so much pain. It was the most horrfying thing I have ever seen. Horrible. It will haunt me for the rest of my life.

Then there is Nixon. I was rooting for him. Everything I thought was going wrong with him ended up being right. We ONLY fundraised for his rescue, xrays and possible do right by. When the vet called me they were loading the truck to Mexico, I had to walk away and just broke down crying. I asked the vet if there was literally ANYTHING they could do to help him. Due to the lack of blood flow in his hooves there was nothing. He was already rotated with his coffin bones pointing down about to come through on top of the blood flow being cut off causing massive abscess blow outs, he was in agony. We had to do right by him as painful as it was. This is the part of rescue that I hate.

His previous owners should have done right by him. THEY should have been the ones to carry the burdon of having to do the right thing. Instead they KNOWINGLY knew how much pain he was in and KNOWINGLY sold him at an auction where he was purchased and transported in horrible paint to Texas, to the kill pen, to ship to slaughter. IT IS SO WRONG. It is horses like Nixon that remind me that THIS is why I show up month after month. Had I not been here he would be on a semi truck headed 17 hours down to Mexico in horrible pain. That is so wrong on every level and something NO BEING, horse or animal, should ever have to suffer through.

It just blows my mind. Humans can be so insanely cruel. How do they just look at an an animal, into their eyes and think, DONE. Just to be able to shut that off I do not even understand! They are living, breathing, feeling, curious, loving, beings who dont deserve what they have to go through.

This is why I fight. I fight for them. They deserve to be treated with respect, not like trash and not like a piece of metal sold at a pawn shop as if it has no heart beat going on in its chest. Its sickening.

This is why WE have to share. This is WHY we have to advocate, speak up, SHOW PEOPLE what is going on with Americas horses. It is 2024 for crying out loud. Standard on US need to be higher.

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So today through Monday I fight. I need your help. I cannot do this alone and with your help we WILL save and help as many lives out of the auction pipeline as we can.

I made a donation post that you can use in your Instagram and Facebook stories as well as any of the reels, I can send to you via DM or email to use on your platforms -- please dont hesitate to reach out! We are a team and I am fully commited to growing this amazing ASIAB community that believes in fighting, spreading awareness and making a difference in the horse industry!