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.