My favorite kind of post to make!
Jul 20 2010
And good brain bleach for those of you in need of some…last seen on this blog in a kill pen…third place halter this weekend, who am I? Let’s see who gets it first!
And another super cute bay Thoroughbred, available from Shiloh Horse Rescue in Nevada!
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I don’t know who, but he’s bringing a tear to my eye. Mom has a great expression of shock on her face & the horse looks just fabulous!!!
Thanks for the “brain bleach”— I made the mistake of following the link to the Encyclopaedia Dramatica last night. I figured… how bad could it be?
I wish they sold toothbrushes for memories.
Worse, I’m frustrated he only got 3 years. Like you said, it’s better than nothing… but still. It’s only 3 years.
By the way–the main horse in the photograph is beautiful, and it sounds like it’s an amazing story… but WOW! Look at that heiny on that black! I think I’m in love….
“I wish they sold toothbrushes for memories.
Same here, I made the mistake of visiting Encyclopedia Dramatica myself. Absolutely foul! Doug Spink, you are one sick fuck!
I did something similar.
Fugly did have a warning, but I didn’t look it over very carefully and I thought I was headed toward injury/neglect land. But what I did was google Doug Spink.
First thing comes up, “Beast Forum.”
Huh, I think. About animals? Maybe people complaining about this guy? YES. I WAS NAIVE/JUST PLAIN STUPID ENOUGH TO THINK IT WAS SOME RESCUE FORUM.
It was about animals, alright. In the most horrific way it could possibly be about animals. I know, intellectually speaking, that creepy things exist on the internet, but to stumble unknowingly into one of those places was just flat out disturbing. I can’t believe that many people would spend that much time promoting to one another the idea that it’s okay to have sex with animals. Just weird and wrong and made all the weirder and “wronger” by the fact that it’s a COMMUNITY. I really had no idea.
Lucky B Lucky?
No, but that is another good guess.
We HAVE had a lot of rescued bay TB’s lately, haven’t we?
Here is the thread on SAFE for Bucky B Lucky, for those of you who’d like to follow his progress:
http://schwung.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=rehab&action=display&thread=5934&page=1
The name Bucky B Lucky caught my eye since my new, young TB is by Kentucky Lucky and it turns out they are brothers! My guy is Silent Blue Boy and has never been raced, he is a really good boy, young, I have never had a 4 year old before, but still a good boy. He is going to be my limited distance horse some day when he finally matures, whenever that may be. Right now we just trail ride and take it easy, he is going for his second camp trip in a little over a week.
Very cool!
He came very close to slipping through the cracks. This is one out of the Enumclaw kill pen.
I don’t know who the pony is, but I absolutely LOVE the look on the handler’s face – pure joy!
Ready Say Go
You got it!
Original appearance on my blog:
http://fuglyblog.com/?p=1178
I thought so! Knew I should have said something. Where did he end up?
He is still with Cowgirl Spirit and anyone who’s interested should contact them.
I do rememember how good he looked even in the kill pen. I just love plain bays. Getting it right says that I spend way too much time reading at work and not working.
He really is beautiful, I hope someone really special shows up and takes him home.
And another update, though I will tell you who this one is:
Original Blog: http://fuglyblog.com/?p=387
Today:
Wow both horses look so great!! I love the expression on the handlers face (for Ready Say Go) , and it looks like the young lady bridling Rhythm has a thing or two to show PP.
LOL! LOL! LOL!
We should do a video with Teens Who Can Handle Horses Better Than Pat Parelli.
LOL! Thats my horse Rhythm. What do you mean I have a thing or to, too show when bridleing him?
We were commenting that you are clearly more competent at putting a bridle on a young horse than Pat Parelli (PP)…this was posted right after the infamous video where Pat couldn’t even hang on to the horse and scared him half to death!
Oh I see, lol (: well thank you haha
How bout Ready Say Go?
That’s him.
And we have Cowgirl Spirit to thank for the lovely rehab job! I believe he will be available for adoption soon. I think he’s lovely and it sounds like he’s quite level headed. He came off the track sound so he should be in good shape to start a new career now that he has detoxed and gained all of the weight he needed.
darn Weone beat me by 10 mins LOL… He sure looks like a sweetie!
I have my own little rehab boy right now, Spanish Mustang colt, abandoned a year and a half ago after being brought all the way to Duncan, BC from Black Hills, South Dakota!! … here he was in April:
http://s41.photobucket.com/albums/e260/NicoleandReannon/Mustang/?action=view¤t=April2010035.jpg
and here he is now
http://s41.photobucket.com/albums/e260/NicoleandReannon/Mustang/?action=view¤t=P1040631.jpg
Sorry but it was slow at work. Yours looks very good too. Very nice.
whoops, I guess I didn’t do a direct link! Sorry!
Before:
After:
So pretty!!!
Wow, what a looker!
Handsome boy! Way to go, Reannon, you are one lucky stiff to have upgraded such a winner. As a “put your ass on some class” Andalusian lover, I’ve always thought Spanish Mustangs have that same look plus groovy colors. I think I’m in love, and I know you must be!
haha you share some good taste with me
My namesake “Reannon” is my other horse and she is an Andalusian/Arab. This little guy is pure spanish mustang, and every ounce of him looks the part, I love him to bits.
Gorgeous boy! Is he grulla? (Not too keen on the non-basic colors yet!)
yes the little guy is a grulla
He is GORGEOUS! Thanks for the happy story today!
OMG gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous.
This is kind of off-topic, but such a sharp contrast to the quality horse saved from kill.
This Krazy Kolor breeder tests the temperament of new stallions (two years old) by putting a nine year old girl up on top of them. The ultimate test is whether she can handle them bareback, with just a halter and lead rope.
I found her ranting pro-slaughter on a Yahoo Group. Yeah, no doubt. Not a single performance horse amongst her multiple Kolored studs. Unless you count not trampling a child as “performance.”
http://www.coloredcowhorseranch.com/docs_producer_leo
I have to say, some of those stud horses would make cute geldings. Yeah, not Stallion Quality. I just don’t understand why people insist on cranking out foal after foal after foal after foal.
Ironically I can’t help but feel these foal mills support slaughter only because their foals end up first in line to the double-deckers.
This is off topic also, but did anyone else see this on the news? WTF!?!?! Why in the world would you do this to a poor donkey? I hope these guys get MAJOR jail time for this, but something tells me they won’t! I can’t imagine how terrified that donkey was to be flying in the air like that for 30 minutes!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEep5BrexT0
I saw it. I figured I’d put something POSITIVE up first…good lord, the world is just full of jackasses and by that I do not mean the donkey!
I hate people sometimes…
I hate most people all of the time…..
That poor donkey, they are lucky they didnt yank his head off its shoulders with the way it pulled him so fast!
Sheer retardation and stupidity.
“Humm . . . how do we promote our parasailing business?” asks Olof.
“How about we give 5 people a day a free ride? Then they will tell their friends how much fun they had!” says Michael.
“How about . . .” says Olof thoughtfully, “we get a donkey, scare the shit out of him, and let HIM parasail over the ocean for half an hour?! Maybe he will bray constantly, drawing lots of attention to us. Yeah, that will bring the people running to us.”
Too bad those people are running to you to beat the crap out of you!!
Hey Fugs, I don’t know if this has made it to your inbox yet….but I am sad to report that horse meat has begun being sold in Western Australia.
“Vince Gareffa of Mondi Di Carne gourmet butchers is believed to be the first Australian butcher to begin selling horse meat for human consumption in the country.
The butcher’s opened up his store in Perth with fresh horse meat for sale and says it’s no different than any other animal currently slaughtered for consumption.”
=(
bet they’re rounding up brumbies for that, awful…
Hi fellow West Aussies *waves*
I agree with you guys completely, it is sick that this has been passed in WA. There are quite a few people putting up a very good fight regarding this so hopefully we can get it overturned quickly.
So far 3 horses I am aware of have made it to dinner plates. These horses were aquired from the knackery… so how do people know they haven’t ever received bute again?
I doubt it…we have too many TBs here as well (2nd largest TB herd after the US and we have 1/10 the population…so we don’t need to encourage our racing industry with a higher value “disposal” option)….There are two abottoirs that slaughter horses for human consumption (export) in Australia. I’d say this guy would get his from South Australia.
It’s been reported in the newspapers he has received death threats and it is raising the whole question about horses for human consumption generally and South Australia has been defending its export activities as well.
Yep, 64 kosciusko brumbies were pulled from the national park and sen to Camden sales 2 weeks ago, my friend was there, she’d rescued a guy Fawkes brumby 2 wks previously, he’s BEAUTIFUL, and she had a full float from the sales already, a gorgeous bombproof quarab riding pony that’s now a 12yo kids pony and a 3ish yo stock horse x gelding that is the most adorable thing ever and being ridden by a 14yo now, came so malnorished and ribby, he was fed normal feed and he’s put on weight already!!! 4 of them were privately bought, 60 of them went to goulburn slaughterhouse, 2 of them were then further rescued for $400 each. Activists broke into the slaugherhouse that night, drenched all the horses in the pens (Inc all 58 of the brumbies, good job!) and contaminated the water with bute and wrote on the wall in red paint something along the lines of “these horses have been wormed and buted, 28 day withholding period, if you kill them you will be exposed for selling contaminated meat”. (later other ppl broke in and cut the power to the electrical machinery in the slaughterhouse)
Oh awesomeness! Are ppl following this up so they don’t wind up ‘mixing them up’ with a different bunch and just slaughtering them anyways?
wouldn’t it be interesting to microchip horses with that information? Then trace them to the slaughter houses, and prove that these people are butchering contaminated horses? Government is given a lot of incentive to ignore the very nasty fact that few to none of these slaughterbound horses are checked for drugs or given a full withdrawal period.
I don’t get what the deal is? I’m an Australian horse lover- as long as noone is forcing me to eat horse meat (or sneaking it into my Chinese meals), I really couldn’t care less. It’s not as though they’re killing extra horses for it.
My ONLY question is- are the slaughter methods still inhumane when they are killed for human consumption?
what makes you think more horses on’t be slaughtered as a result of a better premium being paid for “human consumption quality”? I see it as possibly the start of a slippery slope, giving the racing industry more of a reward for their “waste”
I spose we should support the current whaling agreement to allow Japan to resume commercial whaling in the southern ocean as well? I mean hey, they won’t be killing more whales than they do now for “research”
Oh my God, I googled this guy’s name (I live in NSW) and one of the articles that comes up finishes with
‘They will call us the horse whisperers!
They will come up to us and whisper ‘Can I have a kilo of horse meat, please’ ‘
WTF
That made me feel quite ill. He also claims, most of his hate mail comes from animal activist groups, who will attack anyone if told so.
I believe that is BULLSHIT and people are just not comfortable with that.
I mean, sure, they are getting butchered anyways… Let’s start eating corpses of people who die of heart-disease. That won’t infect you, and once they are dead, they become meat, just like a dead animal!
This makes me really sick and I am going to write to that Minister who gave permission…
O/T, but I’m good for that…
My horse, Gage, has been coughing for about a month and a half now. We can’t seem to figure out the cause, and I am looking for suggestions…
My first thought was that it was from ground corn. The barn owner had been giving him this to put more weight on him. He has always been on the thin side, even though he eats as much grain as the racehorses that are in work and receives a weight gain supplement (Fat Cat). We removed the ground corn from his diet, no improvement.
He coughs while at rest, and more when he is working. I can no longer feed him carrots, because this causes him to cough violently. The cough does not seem to be affected by his grain though.
Last year, around the same time, he developed a cough; however, it only lasted about 2 weeks and cleared up. Therefore, I thought it may be a seasonal thing (allergens/pollen) and didn’t worry much at first. I have to note that there is no nasal discharge, his coat glows, his weight is good and he has been quite energetic. In fact, more energetic than his typical, laid back self. No deep chest sounds (it’s a dry cough), no temperature, respiration seems normal. He has been sweating in his stall quite a bit (more than the other horses – they are in during the day, from 6 p.m. til late morning). I bought him a fan and he still sweats (not quite as much), but it has been hot and humid.
When I called the vet initially, he said not to worry, that it is common this time of year. Especially since he is a young horse (4) and may have contracted a mild respiratory illness from one of the track horses (my barn has racing TB’s and takes in horses for special care and stall rest). He said to call again in a week if he didn’t improve. A week later, he had improved. The next week, back to coughing, so I called the vet again.
The vet came out to check him out. This, of course, would be the day that he decided not to cough at all. We tried working him on the longe line, feeding him carrots, massaging his throatlatch…nothing. The vet checked his breathing sounds and vitals, no problem. He decided a scope was not necessary.
That was about 2 weeks ago. The condition seemed to have improved for a bit, but now he is back to coughing frequently. Still a dry cough.
Some more background:
- Gage is stalled right by the indoor arena, which can be very dusty.
- Hay was cut recently, he developed a cough right after hay was cut last year
- The bedding is sawdust, not shavings, which can be dusty
He is scheduled to see vet from the track in 2 weeks (soonest available). This guy is supposed to be the best around for respiratory issues. In the meantime, he is being put on pasture 24/7 with no hay in order to eliminate dust/hay allergies.
I’m at my wit’s end here, any suggestions? Questions I should ask should he not improve by the time he can see this vet?
My thoughts are that it is an allergic reaction – to pollen or allergens in the hay/air, dust from the arena, dust from shavings. My fear is that something totally preventable could turn into a chronic and incurable condition. Everything I’ve read states that chronic cough is often hard to diagnose, and it could affect the horse’s lung function for life if not treated properly. I appreciate any feedback!
What you are saying about the history of the cough screams some sort of allergy or dust issue to me…I bet he will improve immensely on pasture. Let us know!
ETA -
“oops”
they are in during the day, from 6 p.m. til late morning
This should say, they are in during the day, out in the pasture from 6 p.m. til late morning
Wasn’t there a Belgian rescue on this blog a year or so ago who had corn stuck in his windpipe or throat or something?
OK I found it. Probably not related, but worth a look.
http://fuglyblog.com/?p=1124
Also, thanks for the brain bleach, fugs. I was seriously squicked out at what I saw at that site you warned us about. Hopefully we won’t need to hear about that again for a long time.
Ready Say Go is gorgeous. WTG Cowgirl Spirit, hope he finds a worthy new hooman.
Funny you mention that, choke was one of my first concerns because of the ground corn. From what I’ve read though, you will often see food bits coming from the nasal cavity with choke. It often takes a while for the condition to become serious too, and he wasn’t on the feed very long. I can honestly say I never heard of the condition until Fugly posted it.
my horse will cough also do to dust. it can be dust from the ground or hay. when we go to show i have to wet her hay and take her to the water after every class. she is on 24/7 turn out and does not cough all summer but as soon as winter come and i have to give her hay she gets put on meds. so try turning the horse out and wetting the hay down when or if it get some
If it is dust related and you want to keep him, move him to another stall away from the arena (if possible) and lightly mist his stall daily to keep the dust down. We always have it drilled into our heads that the stalls must be dry that we have a hard time accepting the fact that some of them are very dusty and too dry.
On another note, we got a pony who had a bad cough for months on end – deep, wet cough which came on with work. After talking to the vet, we double-dose wormed her and the cough cleared up. Wormer works with the immune system – if it is compramised then the wormer isn’t as effective. I doubt this will help you any, but maybe it can help someone else.
Best of luck!!
What about COPD (AKA Heaves)? My horse has had it for years, and in his case it`s been highly treatable with sterroids; in his case we use dexamethasone.
My OTTB has a paralyzed flapper (he “roars”), scoped by the vet maybe 8 years ago. He gets a cough in the summer and we don’t have pasture in the desert, so I have been wetting down his hay. Of course, he also wets his own (which makes a terrible mess in the watering trough ;o) but I’ve found that if I toss it into the feeder (or break apart a bale) and there is dust, wetting down is good. I have the hay under a roof, but as I said, this IS the desert and the wind blows A LOT.
I feed MSM and garlic, both good for horses with breathing issues. Horse Journal did an article on breathing supplements, covering supps for all types of breathing issues (“heaves,” allergies, etc.).
There are plenty of breathing supplements out there, some with MSM and/or garlic, others with lots of herbs. Not sure if they test, so haven’t used anything like that since I would like to show the horse and don’t want to buy something I can’t use on show day.
Anyway, a thought.
This is funny because I brushed about a pound of mud/dust off of Ready a few hours ago at the Cowgirl Spirit property. He found a nice muddy spot and had a great time last night! Luckily, he cleans up easily enough. He is the first horse I have met who will perfectly balance on three hooves so that he won’t lean or put any weight on you whatsoever when you are working with a hoof. He is available for adoption to the right home. Contact officers@csrdt.org for more information.
Thank you, Eileen!
I wish I was still local, I’d love to come out and ride him. You will have to get under-saddle video soon, I know everybody would LOVE to see it!
I’m the one with the delerious grin on my face in the Ready pic
LOVE THAT BOY! We’ve been doing ground work with him for the past few months, and we’re ready to start riding… The goal is to have him in the walk-only rescue class at the SAFE show in August. Hopefully we can get some video to you before then!!!
Excellent! Well, I wish I could come to that show but it’s sandwiched between two shows of my own and I can’t come up there every weekend.
I will look forward to pictures!
Ready Say Go is so beautiful. and for more happy happy here is my rescue. I got Sept 13, 09 and 2nc pic is now.
I honestly have no idea, but he looks amazing! Looks like a top stud!
Such a handsome boy. And he looks like a real sweetheart in that photo. What a nice turnaround for his life.
This is OT but since it’s good news for OTTB’s I thought it was appropriate to share here: https://www.carma4horses.org/about/
CARMA’s Mission statement:
“CARMA is dedicated to the goal of providing funding for the rehabilitation,
retraining and/or retirement of Thoroughbred horses that have raced in California. It is only
through the cooperation and assistance of the entire industry that this can be accomplished.”
For anyone in southern california they are hosting a charity pocker event July 24th, buy in is $200.
What a pretty boy! They have done an awesome job with him and I bet some one will snatch him up soon. I cant wait to see him go under saddle, I am willing to guess he is a quick learner…….He just has that look about him
Try Spirulina for your coughing horse. You can get it very inexpensively at herbalcom.com in the powder form. Trader Joe’s also sells it in the pill form but it’s more expensive. Valley Vet also sells a homeopathic Allergy and Asthma medicine that I give to my Arab because she will cough if ridden in a dusty arena and it seems to have helped her. Sorry about the run on sentence, trying to type fast so I can eat lunch.
This is a mare that I kept from going to a local kill buyer…I kept bidding until I got her…She was sure to be headed to PA or to someone in the local back yard racers association around here…They like to get these thoroughbred and return them to the sales 2 months later with bowed tendons and unable to walk…Either that or they run them to death literally and leave them where they lie…
This is a picture taken about 2 weeks after she got to our place
She got three months to put on a little weight and we have just now started to work her again and get her show ready…We have taken her to one show and she won 4th in HUS with very little training time before the show…This is our pretty girl now…
