The sweet bay face you see in this photo is not Pookey Bear (who is fine, BTW). But had life taken a slightly different turn for him, it could have been.
The sweet bay face belongs to a lucky horse at a sheriff's auction I attended yesterday. The dark side of the photo represents his old life; the bright side, the new.
This horse, along with 24 others, was seized from his breeders by animal control. The stallions in the group had been locked in their stalls for months, standing in piles of their own waste up to eight feet high. Their hooves looked like genie's slippers. Their coats were dull and their manes and tails hopelessly matted. They were emaciated.
The mares were found huddled together in a small outdoor enclosure, competing for small particles of low-quality hay.
I will not even discuss the young horses.
But for most of these sweet horses, the future now looks bright! Most of them were sold at auction yesterday to knowledgeable, kind-hearted horsemen who have promised to give them a place to live out the rest of their days in comfort and happiness, with clean, dry footing and full bellies.
A happy ending!
Pookey Bear is working toward his happy ending, too.
After finally getting the best of that nasty abscess, he is feeling much better! He visited the doctor earlier this week, and got a new set of x-rays and a new pair of shoes. His x-rays looked kind of funky--his bony column is kind of 'listing' in his right front. But with a little farrier magic, he is once again standing up nicely, and walking nearly sound.
Today's footage was shot of him on his morning walk.
Doesn't he look great?
His future is looking brighter and brighter!
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