Post by prizmbluekigers on Nov 20, 2008 19:19:03 GMT -5
Hi,
Stay with this until the story improves. I posted this as a "good" story because of the ending. This is both a tragic story and one proves horse people are good souls. A local 12 year old girl got word Sunday that her beloved horse had been shot as many as 15 times and died. Terrible enough for an adult to handle, let alone a young girl with her first horse.
I am weeping again as I write this, but the story gets better. Another local 13 year old girl loaded up her very own horse and she and her dad took the horse out to the 12 year old to offer her the horse. How unselfish was that?
It gets better still. Three days later our news is carrying a story that says there were about 10 offers for a replacement horse from locals. I love horse folks!!!!!!!
The story touched me in a big way as I was 13 when my first horse fell ill and died. I had the horse about 5 weeks and I remember how I felt when he died so I offered her one of our fillies too. Her dad e-mailed me and he was very touched by the outpouring of compassion. (Someone gave me a replacement horse also. I had saved and saved and couldn't afford a new horse, but a local auctioneer stepped in and he is still in my thoughts even 45 years later)
A horse was found in a nearby forest last month - shot in the head. That horse is expected to make a good recovery - the bullet missed anything vital in the skull.
Lest you think we are all nuts here in this area, there is also a fund set up at a local bank as as reward for info leading to an arrest, so I suspect more than "horsey" folks are now involved.
Personally, I hope they get the person or persons responsible for shooting both horses and throw the book at them.
Stay with this until the story improves. I posted this as a "good" story because of the ending. This is both a tragic story and one proves horse people are good souls. A local 12 year old girl got word Sunday that her beloved horse had been shot as many as 15 times and died. Terrible enough for an adult to handle, let alone a young girl with her first horse.
I am weeping again as I write this, but the story gets better. Another local 13 year old girl loaded up her very own horse and she and her dad took the horse out to the 12 year old to offer her the horse. How unselfish was that?
It gets better still. Three days later our news is carrying a story that says there were about 10 offers for a replacement horse from locals. I love horse folks!!!!!!!
The story touched me in a big way as I was 13 when my first horse fell ill and died. I had the horse about 5 weeks and I remember how I felt when he died so I offered her one of our fillies too. Her dad e-mailed me and he was very touched by the outpouring of compassion. (Someone gave me a replacement horse also. I had saved and saved and couldn't afford a new horse, but a local auctioneer stepped in and he is still in my thoughts even 45 years later)
A horse was found in a nearby forest last month - shot in the head. That horse is expected to make a good recovery - the bullet missed anything vital in the skull.
Lest you think we are all nuts here in this area, there is also a fund set up at a local bank as as reward for info leading to an arrest, so I suspect more than "horsey" folks are now involved.
Personally, I hope they get the person or persons responsible for shooting both horses and throw the book at them.
