Lakota Goes Home

Remember what Lakota looked like when she got here?

 

She cleaned up well, don’t you think?

 

Lakota is one of those rescues that I just didn’t get to spend much time with, which is a shame because she is such a sweetheart!  And talk about a looker!  Some people don’t like those blue eyed horses, but I have a certain affinity for them – just ask Sky.

Lucky for me, she was adopted by someone about eight miles away and she’ll probably be bringing Lakota over here this summer to do some riding with me.  Top that off with her daughter wanting to do some volunteering, and I’m doing my happy dance - not to be confused with my rain dance or my saddle Jewel dance (patent pending).

Lakota and Thunder

The Fairmont saga is still continuing.  The deputy and vet that went to check out the horses did nothing, other than tell the guy to worm his horses and fix up the shelter.  I’m sure the asshat has jumped right on that and those horses will be picking up weight in no time. 

NOT.

Crazy breeder down the road still had blankets on today, even though it was almost 70 degrees and sunny.  I guess the next deaths will be caused by a combination of starvation and heat stroke.  Perhaps if enough of them die she’ll eventually be down to a number that she can actually take care of.  That seems to be the only option since Tyler county has no one in authority that actually gives a flying fig.

In the good news section of the blog, these two horses were successfully rescued about two months ago.   They were skeletons then and still have a couple of hundred pounds to go.  The person that rescued them originally was having trouble handling them as they grew healthier and would really prefer a nice, well broke older horse instead of these two young hooligans.   He’s adopting Timmy in another few weeks and I picked up Lakota and Thunder from him yesterday. 

Thunder was a stallion when he was originally rescued and was just castrated about eight weeks ago.  Of course he and the mare had been turned out together before being rescued.  Ugh.  Let’s hope the Lutalyse shot works on Lakota better than it worked on Willow!

 

That’s most of Thunder above, and Lakota is below.  She’s going to be a stunning mare once she’s cleaned up and fatter.

 

 

These two are supposed to be fairly well broke trail horses, so once they’re back up to a healthy weight I’ll be getting on them for evaluation. 

I apologize for the crappy pictures.  I was trying to hold on to an excited and nervous Thunder and work the camera at the same time.  I wanted to get better pictures today, but it just never happened. 

 

Once I have better pictures of Lakota I’ll post about her over on Rescue Recoveries.  She’s a big mare and needs at least another 250lbs before she’s back up to where she should be.  Judging from what she looked like when she was originally rescued, she’s already put on about 200lbs!  Poor girl!