In July, we rescued a Chestnut Saddlebred gelding from starvation in St. Albans. A few weeks ago, we rescued a Paint Saddlebred gelding from Auction. As many people know, these horses had the same former owner. They were sold or given away or traded and through a different chain of events for each horse, both ended up in tragic situations where we found them and took them into rescue. To be clear, they were not sent to auction or starved BY the shared former owner. One went through two owners before going to auction in a very short time. The other went through one owner to a situation where he was starved. While weve made that plain many times, I will reiterate that now. Weve never expressed an opinion on the situations beyond they were BOTH in desperate need, as really, what does that help? BOTH didnt deserve to end up how/where they did, and we were glad we could be there for them as many of the folks on our team had seen the horses shown in the past and knew them in their former lives, in good shape and so forth. We felt obligated. It is sad that the former owner and her friends have opted to malign the rescue in claims WITHOUT any merit at all for saving these horses. What a pitiful reaction to seeing these horses helped. That all said, We do NOT appreciate being blamed for people giving opinions of the former owner of both horses. That isnt of our making. People have a right to decide what they think of that. We all have personal thoughts on the situation, and the rescue has never even named the owner publicly. Lets be frank. . .when a rescue ends up with two horses from the same owner in 8 weeks time, people will talk. We can hardly NOT share the horses photos or information and prevent them from being adopted because people will talk and have negative things to say about the former owner. That is NOT through any mis-step of ours. We rescue horses. We arent here for the gossip mill, to suit the locals or make friends with everyone. Especially since those who have so much to say to the rescue over these two horses and defense of the former owner have never donated or assisted in the Tri-state wide rescue efforts we orchestrate. Their words mean nothing. Ive spoken to the former owners mother twice on this situation, once in person and once via phone, and she has repeatedly Thanked us heartily and apologized for the things weve went through over helping these two horses, and for that, we are grateful. She also repeated that we were welcome to use any and all photos of the horses taken while at her barn, which we appreciate, as some friends of the former owner had given us a very hard time over that, though wed been given permission once before. I hate to even have to write such a post, but the circumstances require it at this point. It is a shame that people will malign those who do good when they feel somehow their own character is not being reflected in the best light. . .what is honest and right seems to mean very little.
Posted on: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 04:36:57 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015