Moving Day! Four H.E.R.O. horses were relocated to the farm today, the yearlings to come towards the end of the week and hopefully the "ladies" in quarantine can heal up and join the herd soon!
Today was really my first day getting to know these horses a bit and I kept asking Erika, owner of Heartsong Equine Rescue Organization, what the story was behind each horse. The answer was "who knows?" I was sadly mistaken to think that a meat buyer would give a rescuer a detailed write-up on each horse, like the kind you would find on dreamhorse.com, but if they did I can imagine it might look something like this...
"Judge" a 20-year-old chestnut gelding, 16 hands. A used up Amish work-horse owner no longer has a need for. Despite visible scarring on body and face, previous starvation, a couple blown-up legs, this sweet old boy will willingly do whatever is asked of him. Price: he is worth his weight for meat.
There are no descriptions of the horses that arrive at H.E.R.O., many times no known histories. What steps off of the trailer is exactly what you get, and the work starts there. Because it is a horse's past experiences that make them who they are - scars and all - it is resilience of overcoming the past in order to begin moving toward greener pastures that make them a hero.
Where love is spread, hope will grow.
Tracy
Judge - need I say more?
Judge and Forrest wait for the others
Romeo and Stetson join the crew
Happy tails!
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