Well, we tried our very best to get Baby New Year loaded onto the trailer to get her to her new home...sadly, she would not get on the trailer. We do NOT believe in beating them on the trailer, we do believe in them loading via kindness, and professional ability and always thinking...yep, you are SO getting on that trailer! LOL! Alas, sometimes it doesn't always work.
However, even if we could have gotten her on the trailer (she is 20 years old and was at the same farm for 15 years before given away to be left to starve nearly to death - her story is here) the family (a WONDERFULLY KIND FAMILY) that was planning on adopting her could not have dealt with the trailer issue...they are an older couple, new to trailering and this is not a good combo.
If she were going there to just be trail ridden on the property or just hang out it would have been fabulous! She was not violent, wasn't mean, didn't buck or rear...just planted those tooties and there you go...
Sooooo...our thoughts are...do we REALLY want to try to teach her to load (which really isn't accurate she KNOWS how to load, she doesn't want to) and get her adopted...or do we just let her stay here and let her be a teaching horse for the younger volunteers, and a baby sitter for new horses? I think we are going with the latter...
BIG thanks to Pat for covering her hauling fee...even though she didn't load we still paid (two hours and oodles of Joe Renner's patience - priceless!) her hauling fee (I tried to refund it, I think she threatened me with bodily harm or something LOL!)...and for offering to help us with her issue...I think maybe, she HAS found her forever home at Angel Acres...
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