Bringing Them Home

I had to rely on help from near strangers to bring them home,  a woman named Karen and her dad, Ralph whom I had only talked with a handful of times  They were so nice and came over with their trailer and we went to pick the horses up.   Thank God for kind strangers.  This is a picture of what they looked like on the day we brought them home:

Unloading Terra

Terra

Terra

Bonnie

Karen & Ralph unloading Bonnie

Bonnie

We were told they were 3 and 4 years old but it turns out they are more like probably 6 & 8.

 The man who gave us the horses also gave us all the tack I needed for them and some extra feed he had:

So we were all set up!  I couldn't believe our luck.  I had wanted horses for so long and was beginning to think it wouldn't happen but now it had.  (Thank You God)  

Our Horses

This is a picture of Bonnie and Terra the day we brought them home. March 2011

 We found Bonnie & Terra on Craig's List believe it or not, for free.  They had been posted about an hour before I saw them which is strange because I never look at Craig's list I just happened to be scanning for a used car for my son and came across them and decided to call.  The man who owned them before got them for his grandkids but was not really ready to have horses.  He didn't have a barn or area to keep them in but figured he'd do all this later.  He'd had them since October 2010 and put up a small barbed wire enclosure to keep them in until he could do something more permanent but that never happened.  He started having to work longer hours and was gone all the time and the grandkids didn't really fool with them and all he was doing he said was going out and feeding them every day.  The place they were in had no grass and no shelter.  The horses were underweight by about 200 lbs each.  They had no names as the people who owned them were just calling them "ladies".

Supposedly, he got them for free from a woman who was a veterinarian and had at one time ridden Bonnie on trail rides.  Terra was supposedly owned by a man who lived next door to the woman and rode Terra frequently but Terra wondered into the woman's pasture one day and stayed there awhile and one day the man just told the woman she could keep her.  The woman said she didn't have time for them anymore and gave them away to the man who later gave them to us. This is a picture of them when we first got them.