Monday, August 2, 2010

And the good news. . .

After learning about the sad turn of events for my past rescues, Teka and Taro (in the last blog), I decided to write a blog that has a happy ending, and of that, I am sure.

Big John was a Clydesdale Cross we rescued from neglect last August (2009) from Pritchard, WV from a family who simply was not feeding him.

He was 8 yrs old, several hundred pounds underweight (at least), needing wormed, a teeth float and his feet done. He was very weak when we picked him up.

We got him up to a healthy weight, had his feet done, wormed him and floated his teeth, and then we placed him with a wonderful family in Virginia.

We receive updates and photos of  him often, and I talk to his new family frequently.

These were  taken at his former home:


These photos below are from his first day at my mother's farm






After a month and half with us below



And now since November at his new home in VA




Happily Ever After for One Horse

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Spring 2010
Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds. For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation? The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered. The lambs are for thy clothing, and the goats are the price of the field. And thou shalt have goats' milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and for the maintenance for thy maidens

- Proverbs 27:23-27


"I know of no pursuit in which more real and important services can be rendered to any country than by improving its agriculture, its breed of useful animals, and other branches of a husbandman's cares."

- George Washington