new horse coming in today...

just awaiting confirmation that she is safely loaded and on the ferry heading to her new life.

we should have said no to her...but mo and I said yes. this horse has had a pretty sad and typically unfairly exploited kind of horse's life.

she is pretty young for us...only 22. but she is useless now so no one wants her..except for us.

here is her story as we know it...

sofie was a brood mare, never used for anything else. in her pictures she looks to be a bit of a homely girl so not sure why anyone would continually breed her over her lifetime except maybe because she was cheap. and all foals are adorable and so most likely easily sold also fairly cheap.

she probably made a fair amount of money for whoever had her at any given moment depending on how long she lived in each place and how many foals they were able to breed.

she finally ended up at auction with her last foal at her side and they were rescued by rescue and sold to a 17yr old. their new owner now can't keep her, the babe was easily sold to someone else. the rescue will not take her back because they are full. the new owner was given two options, re-home or euthanize.. and sofie could not be re-homed, not even for free because no one wanted a fading 22 yr old brood mare who had never been used for anything else and had no training.

it's a sad story..maybe not a horrific story because as far as we know sofie was not starved, she was not beaten and abused, maybe she did not get to live in the nicest and best of all homes...but where ever she was, she obviously had enough to keep getting passed around to new folks for the past 2 decades.

so sofie is not an "Oh My God, you poor, poor horse! How could anyone do that to you??"....she is just your typical average plain jane girl who has been used and used until there is really not much left to use ever again.

her story made both mo and I sad so we said she could come here....I guess sometimes it is ok to listen to your heart and not your head.