What an Experience!

A horse auction is held in New Holland,PA every Monday. It is known as the biggest horse auction east of the Mississippi,especially if your are a "kill-buyer" and deal in horse meat. They buy the horses cheap, and when they have double-decker trailer load, ship them to Canada for slaughter. The meat is shipped to Europe and Asia where it is considered a delicay. The horses are mostly young-who wants old tough meat, and most are healthy-who wants meat from a sick animal! How sad to see weanlings in the pens that sold for $50, or the gelding whose mane had been braided. Guess his previous owner thought he would be bought by someone that would provide a loving home. Instead, he was bought for meat! Minis, donkeys, ponies, drafts, Standardbreds, paints, QHs, TBs, Warmbloods, Arabs, and the list goes on. Because of the economy, no ones buying horses but the "kill buyer". Why do people keep breeding so many horses? Well enough of this for now. I had found out about a TB polo mare that was in a kill-buyers pen. The KB was waiting to acquire enough horses to ship a load to Canada. Another Chance 4 Horses had pictures of her, and a very short video of her trotting, on their website. Tom and I decided to drive to PA and rescue her from her nightmare. Turns out she is registered, only 9 years old and as sweet as sugar. Her mane was roached, top of her tail shaved in what I call "polo" fashion, and had recently had her feet done, as there was no new growth on her hooves. It looks like they took her from the polo field to the auction! She was stocked up a bit in her hind legs, but that has gone down now that she is home and can move around freely. Shes about 100 lbs underweight. Why, why, why? What did she do to deserve this? Was she too slow? Didn't turn fast enough? Why was she thrown away like yesterdays newspaper? Was it too much trouble to find her a home? If nothing else, have a vet humanely euthanize her. Whats that cost, about $200? Was her previous owner so desperite for the $150 he got from the KB? Well she is safe now. Our plan is to rehab her, and find her a loving home. We hope this works-out, and we can rescue more polo horses. I heard today that a bunch of them had just been dumped at New Holland for next weeks auction. Wish I had more land and money!!!