BHFER Saturday 4/7/12 Update

It was a good day at the Paso farm – some mares went to their new homes but there are still a few remaining. For updates please visit their Facebook page. The weather was perfect there and it was great meeting new friends!

I haven’t been on the computer since posting the need for Peggy Sue’s surgery/x-rays this am before heading out to the Paso farm but I prayed about it a lot today. During the drive to the Paso farm I thought about Twilight a lot – and I still cry. And when I checked emails tonight after I got home more tears came – some donated to help Peggy Sue today in memory of Twilight – God bless her little soul. I know she is happy that in some way her crossing Rainbow Bridge has helped another in need. And I’m very happy (and relieved) to report that we have enough funds pledged/raised for Peggy Sue’s x-rays and surgery scheduled for this coming Wednesday/Thursday. If there are more than needed funds received for Peggy Sue – they will be applied towards her future additional needs – she will need chiropractic/body work after her surgery. And we may be able to help her with a special shoe and/or pad – only time will tell.

All of us here at Beauty’s Haven wish all of you a very blessed Easter weekend – we have so much to be thankful for – thank you all!

We love you Twilight – always!

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Peggy Sue Needs Surgery – 04/07/12

04/07/12

“Hi! I’m Peggy Sue! They used to call me Patty but we decided Peggy Sue suits me more and I like it. I have an injury in my left hip/pelvic area and my right stifle gets stuck. Dr. Ryan says if I go to the hospital they can do x-rays to see what is wrong with my back left that is locked up straight – I can’t bend it. And that leg is a couple of inches shorter than the left. It’s likely an old injury that can’t be fixed but they want to figure out if putting a pad or boot on that foot would help. But we need to get my right locking stifle fixed first. I get stuck sometimes and it takes me awhile to move my body to an angle that allows me to get unstuck. Mommy Theresa asked if the stifle surgery would give me a better quality of life and the vets said yes. So, we want to go for it! Would you please consider helping with the cost of the x-rays and surgery? I’m supposed to go to the hospital this coming Wednesday and have surgery on Thursday. I’m a little afraid, but much more excited!”

“Mommy Theresa says we need another $375 so I can go to the hospital for the x-rays and surgery. Would anyone like to help? I’m only 16 years old – I’d love to spend the rest of my life a little more balanced and without locking up. Thank you wonderful people!”

All donations are tax deductible. No amount is too small. Donations can be called directly into the hospital at 352-237-6151. God bless and have a wonderful weekend!

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Lacey’s Baby – Colt or Filly?

Lacey’s breeding date was on June 11, 2011.  Contributions may be forwarded via Just Give or Network for Good.

https://www.bhfer.org/donate

Good Luck, Everyone!

Lacey

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Kittens found a home…

No sooner did I post about the kittens needing help one of our supporters called and said she’d take them – she’s on her way. She has a lot of experience with raising orphan kittens.

God does answer prayers. Thank you all. Now, I just need to get myself together. Dr. Ryan is coming to see Patty.

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Twilight & Kittens 04/03/12

Thank you all for your prayers for Twilight. But right now I’d like to ask for prayers for strength for me. Twilight broke my heart – I’ll never forget her eyes, her frail body, the last breath. It hurts like hell. Sometimes I want to quit. Sometimes I want to run away. Like now. Some say God puts those that are to cross my path sometimes – so they know love and compassion for those last few hours or minutes. It’s hard and it takes a toll. Little Twilight was so frail. She held her head up only a couple of times, just barely off the ground, and looked at me as if to say “why?” And I could only whisper to her that God needed her more than we did and I told her many times she was loved.

And so we must move on – but we will never forget Twilight. For those that are sending funds to help with Twilight they will be applied to last night’s emergency vetting and towards her burial. God bless and thank you for caring and helping.

I just had 3 kittens dropped off – the mother was found dead. Is there anyone that can help with them? They barely have their eyes open. I’m allergic to cats – can anyone take them? Please??? I’m overwhelmed and any networking to find them homes would be greatly appreciated.

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Twilight Crossed Rainbow Bridge

1 am update: The little filly that I named Twilight has crossed Rainbow Bridge – she was just too far gone. In her final hours she knew she was loved. She knew kind and caring hands. I’m so sorry we couldn’t help her – she was just a baby – likely just over a year old.

She had IV fluids and the vet did all he could. She gave it her best and we prayed hard – but God called her home. She was so thin with many sores on her. She broke my heart. She will be buried on Frosty’s Knoll tomorrow.

I’m sorry but I have nothing else to say tonight. I’m just tired, very tired and very sad. Incredibly sad. It just doesn’t seem fair. She was so young and innocent. She didn’t deserve so much suffering.

Run with the angels dear Twilight – you fly with perfect wings now. While I knew you for only a short time – I love you and always will.

Theresa

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URGENT: Young Paint Down in BHFER Neighborhood!

10:14 PM: Theresa got a call tonight from someone in the area we have never met, stating an unknown horse wandered onto his unfenced property. When the owners checked her, she was too weak to get up.

The horse is young, a one on the Henneke Scale, and a rack of bones.

Theresa is on-site now and has assessed the horse to the best of her ability.

The vet is administering fluids (with dextrose, electrolytes, etc.) and trying to stabilize her. We will try to get her on our horse trailer to BHFER for further care.

At this time we need prayers and pledges and/or donations for tonight’s emergency vet call and whatever tomorrow may bring.

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Mini Mare Update!

The little mini mare arrived today while the podiatrists were here. Watching her try to back off the trailer was horrible. She got her left foot stuck between the floor and the ramp in that little drop down space you can see in the below picture just behind her back left foot. When her left foot got stuck, her right one went straight out to the side and two of us caught and supported her and helped her to move forward back into the trailer. It scared the bejimminies out of me! I asked that the divider be removed so she could turn around and walk out. That worked much better.

She seemed to study the ramp for a few seconds and then she moved forward and managed to make it down ok.

We got a much better look at her once at the barn. It was easy to see that she is a sweetheart. It was also easy to see that her backend has issues. We’re not sure what happened to her, or when it happened, but we were told that she sustained an injury when foaling some years ago. Her left back leg has little muscle, if any, and it is fused straight. She walks on it like a peg leg and it does appear shorter than the right leg. Her back toes were curled up and you can see in the picture below what she was having to walk on. It looked pretty uncomfortable.

We knew it was going to take some time and effort to get her back feet in such a way that it would help her to move around and that she’d have difficulty putting weight on either of her back legs for even a short amount of time for her trim. You can’t bend her back left leg at all – its fused in the straight position.

Sometimes, especially when going up an incline, her back end would get locked and it would take her a few seconds to get moving again. I have to give her a lot of credit – she is a very brave girl and she has learned to manage getting around.

We wanted to give her some relief today – even if just a little – so we put the sling to work.

We didn’t want her in the sling any longer than necessary – Laura and Cindy each took a back foot and did some fantastic teamwork to get it done. Everyone did a great job!

Then the front feet were done. All of her feet have infection in them and we’ll be treating them as best as we can.

While her left leg/foot still turns out – her hooficure has helped her to manage to get around better. It will take some time for her body to adjust and getting her as comfortable as possible make time quite a bit of time. But she has a lot of light in her eyes and I know she’s very grateful for what was done today.

After she was out of the sling she was ready to find the grass! It took a little while for her to get used to the changes in her feet from her hooficure but once she realized she could move those back feet without dragging them nearly as much she seemed very pleased – which made all of us happy! Although, the left one still appears shorter and just sort of hangs in the air when she stands for a period of time – depending on how she is standing. She has little muscle in her backend. She may have locking stifles, some other old injury, or both – we just don’t know.

In this picture you can see that her back left leg still hangs in the air. If you look closely you can see it is about 2” off the ground. It doesn’t do this all of the time – just depends on how she is standing. This afternoon I’ve seen her actually stand on her peg leg and rest her right quite a bit.

Thank all of you for caring about this little girl – her name is Patty. She is said to be about 16 years young. Dr. Bess will be here tomorrow so we’ll see how her teeth are and Dr. Ryan will be by in the next couple of days to examine her and likely do x-rays. I’m not sure that whatever is wrong with her back leg can be fixed but we will figure it all out and make her as comfortable as possible.

And to those that are donating to help make us helping her possible – thank you! I’ll try to post two videos of her on the website later tonight. One was taken before the hooficure and one was taken after. Patty is going to need monthly sponsors for awhile. If you’d like to help with her care expenses please contact us – no amount is too small!

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BH update for the last few days…

We hope everyone had a really nice weekend. It was very busy here but a lot got done. We had a few extra helping hands which helped a lot!

Narissa has put a little weight on but right now we’d be happy for her to just maintain until we can get her feet more healthy. She had her feet worked on again by Laura, one of our equine podiatrists. Narissa seems comfy and very content in her stall during the day and out around the barn at night with her slippers on her front feet. She gets a lot of attention and seems to really appreciate it!

Lacey had a hooficure too – we really don’t want her putting on anymore weight either! She’s got another 6 weeks to go.

Ruby also had a hooficure. She’s as sweet as ever.

We enjoyed meeting and spending time with members of a church youth group that spent a couple of days with us – we hope they will come back again soon. It gave a perfect opportunity for some of the horses to get a good bath and then body clipped. The temps have been in the mid 80’s and we have a few horses that don’t shed out their winter coats very well and appreciate our help with this. Little Lily is one of them – I think she decided she likes the windblown look!

Lily and her mom, Ebony, sharing some grooming time after Lily’s clip.

Frodo, Bouie, and Kami also got body clipped. They really needed it – they were fur balls. They are all getting hooficures tomorrow.

It’s always great to see others interacting with the horses – and having fun and learning about proper care of the horses.

Bouie managed to “escape” when the boys went to put him back into his paddock after his clip. It was a really nice couple of days of work and fun with a lot getting accomplished with the much appreciated extra hands helping!

I made time to give Beauty a bath a few days ago. Of course, as soon as she was dry and turned back out – she rolled. J

More hooficures were done at the Paso farm this weekend and the vet was out to do more coggins and vaccinations.

We still have many mares that need to find homes ASAP. If anyone is interested please contact us via email at unica77. These mares are some of 34 horses that were abandoned in Marion County a few weeks ago. We’ve worked hard to care for, and place, these horses – to those that have donated to help with their care – thank you. And to the volunteers that have been diligently helping to care for them – thank you! We need to continue to feed and care for them until all of them are placed – we can’t let the momentum down. The remaining mares are living in stalls at the Paso farm – if we turn them back out we won’t be able to easily catch them for viewing when a potential adopter comes to meet them. They lived as feral horses for 2.5+ years, without human intervention and now, to be living in stalls, well they don’t like it and it makes me feel terrible. Please help us to find them good homes.

This is Briosa, mare #4. She is young (4 yrs old) and very unsure of people. She will need someone willing to take the time it will take to help her learn to trust humans. We don’t believe she has any training at all. She was one of the ones that was starved the most. She’s put on some much needed weight and is ready for her own human and home.

This is Princessa, mare #20. She is a liver chestnut and is another young mare (4 yrs old) that will need a human to help her learn to trust. I love them all but this mare is one of my favorites. A look in her eyes kind of reminds me of my Arabian mare, Beauty, when I first met her years ago.

I’m happy to report that Gentleman appears to be doing better on his new medication. The three “kids” – Baby Girl, Indy, and Morning Star are all doing well. Baby Girl, as sad as we will be to see her go, is ready for her own human and home. She’s a very special girl that will make her own human very happy. Ghost, a 15 yr old Paso Fino, is still looking for a forever home. Nikole is doing ok – she also got body clipped. She has Cushings which leaves her with a thick coat year around. Haley and Kami are doing great – they are also looking for a forever home (together).

The last thing we need to do ask for help, again. This afternoon someone emailed me about a mini mare that is listed on CraigsList for free to see if we could help her. The mare is approximately 15 years old and one leg is shorter than the others. We would like to help this little girl but we need approximately $300 in contributions to cover her initial vetting, x-rays, coggins, dental needs, and initial assessment by one of our equine podiatrists. We are hoping to raise the funds ASAP because the podiatrist will be here tomorrow until about 3 pm and the dentist will be here on Tuesday. This little girl is in our area and we would like to get her here in time for the podiatrist to evaluate her tomorrow and possibly make her a little more comfortable until x-rays can be done. Here is the little mare. The back feet appear overgrown and the left hip looks turned out. Can’t see the front very well.

We hope everyone has a very happy and blessed week. I’ll update when I can – no later than tomorrow night at least about the mini mare if we are able to help her. Please consider helping us to help this girl. All donations are tax deductible and greatly appreciated. No donation amount is ever too small. God bless and thank you all for your continued support!

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