It all started with an email from my horseback riding buddy, Joyce. She had forwarded an email from someone else in the Desert Arabian Horse Association (DAHA) asking for help in placing two mares owned by Dona Hall of Foothill Arabians.
Dona is a longtime friend of ours with whom, unfortunately we have lost touch. She lost her husband a number of years and has been suffering from strokes the last two years. She just had a strong that put her in the hospital. Her family has sold most of her horses, but there were two older mares that needed forever homes.
To make a long story short, I exchanged emails with several people and ended up calling her son. We agreed to take the two mares to our ranch and let them live out their lives here.
As it turned out, no one knew anything about the mares. No names, ages, training or anything. So we didn't know if we would have trouble catching them and loading them in the trailer. Homero came back from Mexico to help us and I asked Betsy if she would help and Joyce volunteered to help, too.
We drove over to the ranch and while the guys were turning around the horse trailer, we three girls went to get the horses. As it turned out, the horses already had halters on and came right up to the fence. Betsy put the lead ropes on and she and Joyce brought the horses out to the trailer. Then Betsy loaded the first horse without any trouble then the second one. We gave them hay to eat and they settled right in. After a little dancing feet, they became very quiet and road home in the trailer easily. What a relief. My job was to give advice and encouragement because my back is so bad.
Here are the horses settled in their corrals at our ranch. We're calling the big one Pumpkin and the little one Peanut.
