Tia
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I am, tentatively, a very very happy girl this evening!
The lady who owned Golden for many years before I bought her emailed me today....completely out of the blue. She found Golden when she was running a search on the Internet for her and found her on my website. Obviously as Golden in registered I knew this lady's name and the town in which she lived but I didn't know her address or telephone number.
Last year I happened upon someone else who had owned Golden since foal, she didn't like her at all and had nothing nice to say about her. I asked her about the lady who bought Golden from her but she had no contact details of her so the trail ended.
Anyway after several emails back and forth with the previous owner of Golden today (I'll call her A) it was arranged that she would phone me at 8pm this evening. Literally 2 minutes after 8pm the telephone rang - I flew to answer it ..... and it was her!!
Gosh we chatted and nattered for well over an hour and we both felt like we had known each other for years and years. What a lovely lady she is - she had no choice in selling Golden and her then foal which she bred. Her marriage had broken down and she had to sell up and move so the horses had to be sold.
When A sold them she was told that the buyer would look after them and take them to shows and love them.....ha! She sold them to the wrong guy! Thankfully he only had them for 3 days before I bought Golden. When I got her home I realised that Golden had had a foal at some stage in life but I didn't know when or how many - it was later in the year when I received a call from the buyer of the youngster but I had no information to pass onto her at that time, apart from letting her know that I still had her horse's dam. Thankfully I kept a record of this lady's name and telephone number.
A informed me that Golden and her son were sold together and were supposed to remain together and she was quite upset to hear that Golden was sold only 3 days later....and even more upset that I didn't have Golden's son....but she was thrilled when I fumbled through my records and found the telephone number of the lady who called me almost a year ago saying she owned the son.
Anyway we chattered on for ages and ages, we had a lot of laughs and giggles; I had to mention a few things about how Golden was when I first bought her, and that upset her but she soon recovered.
However the reason I am (tentatively) elated is because of something she said. Without any prompting whatsoever, she told me to be careful of Golden's feet during the winter about 7 or 8 months after she foals as she is prone to abscesses!!! Abscesses!! How happy was I to hear this!
Anyone who knows the history of my story with this mare will know that Golden went down lame back in the winter - after a couple of months my vet nerve-blocked her and then diagnosed her with "acute navicular". I was devastated, but also found it almost unbelievable as she had been totally sound right up till winter. After having her feet trimmed in a certain way, Golden became sound almost immediately, therefore I had no reason to not accept his diagnosis. Anyway A told me that the way she managed this condition was to put shoes and pads on her during the winter and Golden remained sound.
The reason for the trepidation is that neither me, the farrier, nor the vet have ever found any signs abscesses at any time.....however time will tell. A had owned Golden for 4 years and she said this happened every single year. I told her of the vet's diagnosis and she said, nope it's abscesses......so I'd like to believe her.
Well she kept telling me how happy she was.....and I kept telling her how happy I was! She is coming down to stay with us for a weekend in the near future and is dying to see Golden again.
What a darned sweet story - if someone else had written this I think it would bring tears to my eyes - but because it is me and my beloved Golden, I am just beaming with smiles.
God I love happy endings!
The lady who owned Golden for many years before I bought her emailed me today....completely out of the blue. She found Golden when she was running a search on the Internet for her and found her on my website. Obviously as Golden in registered I knew this lady's name and the town in which she lived but I didn't know her address or telephone number.
Last year I happened upon someone else who had owned Golden since foal, she didn't like her at all and had nothing nice to say about her. I asked her about the lady who bought Golden from her but she had no contact details of her so the trail ended.
Anyway after several emails back and forth with the previous owner of Golden today (I'll call her A) it was arranged that she would phone me at 8pm this evening. Literally 2 minutes after 8pm the telephone rang - I flew to answer it ..... and it was her!!
Gosh we chatted and nattered for well over an hour and we both felt like we had known each other for years and years. What a lovely lady she is - she had no choice in selling Golden and her then foal which she bred. Her marriage had broken down and she had to sell up and move so the horses had to be sold.
When A sold them she was told that the buyer would look after them and take them to shows and love them.....ha! She sold them to the wrong guy! Thankfully he only had them for 3 days before I bought Golden. When I got her home I realised that Golden had had a foal at some stage in life but I didn't know when or how many - it was later in the year when I received a call from the buyer of the youngster but I had no information to pass onto her at that time, apart from letting her know that I still had her horse's dam. Thankfully I kept a record of this lady's name and telephone number.
A informed me that Golden and her son were sold together and were supposed to remain together and she was quite upset to hear that Golden was sold only 3 days later....and even more upset that I didn't have Golden's son....but she was thrilled when I fumbled through my records and found the telephone number of the lady who called me almost a year ago saying she owned the son.
Anyway we chattered on for ages and ages, we had a lot of laughs and giggles; I had to mention a few things about how Golden was when I first bought her, and that upset her but she soon recovered.
However the reason I am (tentatively) elated is because of something she said. Without any prompting whatsoever, she told me to be careful of Golden's feet during the winter about 7 or 8 months after she foals as she is prone to abscesses!!! Abscesses!! How happy was I to hear this!
Anyone who knows the history of my story with this mare will know that Golden went down lame back in the winter - after a couple of months my vet nerve-blocked her and then diagnosed her with "acute navicular". I was devastated, but also found it almost unbelievable as she had been totally sound right up till winter. After having her feet trimmed in a certain way, Golden became sound almost immediately, therefore I had no reason to not accept his diagnosis. Anyway A told me that the way she managed this condition was to put shoes and pads on her during the winter and Golden remained sound.
The reason for the trepidation is that neither me, the farrier, nor the vet have ever found any signs abscesses at any time.....however time will tell. A had owned Golden for 4 years and she said this happened every single year. I told her of the vet's diagnosis and she said, nope it's abscesses......so I'd like to believe her.
Well she kept telling me how happy she was.....and I kept telling her how happy I was! She is coming down to stay with us for a weekend in the near future and is dying to see Golden again.
What a darned sweet story - if someone else had written this I think it would bring tears to my eyes - but because it is me and my beloved Golden, I am just beaming with smiles.
