dray123
Well-Known Member
Mally. Our horse we rescued about over a year ago.
We first went to see her when we saw an ad for loan/sale, but the old owners couldn't cope with her, she kept chucking them off and generally made to sound like a nightmare (A combination of them being completly novice and mally being "barmy"). When we saw her there was no way she was staying there the state she was in so we brought her home.
When we got her home the vet came out and checked her over and said that she had an old injury in her back end that was playing her up where she had probably at some point been either mounted wrong or it was an old x-country injury or racing one, which was causing her pain, probably what the "barmy" label was given to her for. She also had rain scald which the old owners decided to clip around and call mud and not get treated???
The first thing we did was get her treated for the rain scald, then she had light therapy, back specialist etc - You name it she had it! And a few months later shes doing really well. She was riding out once or twice a week lovely and had a young girl riding her.
My question is would anyone actually considor loaning/buying a horse with this many problems, that could only be hacked out once or twice as a max and mainly be a companion ?
Sorry about the long dramatic story, wanted to give you the whole picture as to what this mare has been through! What do you reckon guys?
We first went to see her when we saw an ad for loan/sale, but the old owners couldn't cope with her, she kept chucking them off and generally made to sound like a nightmare (A combination of them being completly novice and mally being "barmy"). When we saw her there was no way she was staying there the state she was in so we brought her home.
When we got her home the vet came out and checked her over and said that she had an old injury in her back end that was playing her up where she had probably at some point been either mounted wrong or it was an old x-country injury or racing one, which was causing her pain, probably what the "barmy" label was given to her for. She also had rain scald which the old owners decided to clip around and call mud and not get treated???
The first thing we did was get her treated for the rain scald, then she had light therapy, back specialist etc - You name it she had it! And a few months later shes doing really well. She was riding out once or twice a week lovely and had a young girl riding her.
My question is would anyone actually considor loaning/buying a horse with this many problems, that could only be hacked out once or twice as a max and mainly be a companion ?
Sorry about the long dramatic story, wanted to give you the whole picture as to what this mare has been through! What do you reckon guys?
