[Dia.]

A group of criminals and smugglers were captured and a small herd of neglected tekes were claimed by the Phaethon's Teke Association. The herd was special, as each had a super shiny coat. It is believed that the smugglers were trying to breed more of these valuable, shiny-coated tekes. However, there is no evidence that they succeeded in passing on the metallic sheen. Unfortunately, the tekes are not in mint condition as a result of the neglect.
The stallion is nearly blind in both eyes as a result of being unprotected from the sun glaring into his pale blue eyes.
The first mare is deaf from unknown causes.
The second mare suffered an injury to her front right knee. Even though it has since healed, she will never be sound.
Each one has been clipped and cared for, but they are still very wary of newcomers. The association is looking to rehome two of these tekes with owners who will rehabilitate them and are seeking applicants as we speak.

End Date: February 14th

The owner gets to choose the string color as well as all of the specifics about the beads. You must explain the significance or meaning of what you chose for this special teke. You must also explain your plan to rehabilitate your neglected teke. Then, go crazy. Impress me with art, writing, you name it in the other section. You may not change the history that has been given above, but you may add to it.
You may decorate your form.

This mare is deaf.

Owner: piaffes in the snow
Name: Vintovara "Vinny"
Gender: Mare
Age: 6 Years
Height: 15.2 hh

Shiny Palomino - aa ee Crcr
Small Brown Dip
Shiny

[Queen Vivane]

Owner:
Queen Chrysalis

Name:
Serenity

Gender:
Mare

Age:
6

Height:
15.2 hh

String Color:
Purple

Bead Color, Shape, Quantity, and Placement:
Pine needle green, diamond shaped, 4, one is to go on both ends of the string that dangle from the bow, while one will sit on the top of both loops of the bow.

Significance:
Purple is my favorite color and it goes very well with palomino coats such as the one this beautiful lady spots. Green for a fresh new start and in honor of the always green pinetrees who battle through all sorts of weather but still come out on top. Diamond because while when first discovered they will be rough around the edges but when polished and cleaned up, they shine like the light of the sun! I chose the positions of the beads for specific reasons. The two on the end of the string signify that her old life of misery has come to end while the two on the loops of the bow signify that her life continues even after her time of mistreatment

Rehabilitation Plan:
I plan to start slowly. A vet check for the first thing just so I can make sure she's all safe and sound to travel.

Feed wise she'll be on a condition and weight gain diet until she's back in top body condition. Small amounts of good quality basic grass hay with small amounts of alfalfa and vegetable oil. As the days go by small amounts of beet pulp and sweet feed will be added.

Put her out in an outdoor schooling ring for a few hours each day (weather permitting) after she arrives so she can get used to her new environment. Seeing as she is deaf I will have to work extra hard with this mare in order to gain her friendship and trust. Everyday I will sit on the fence of the outdoor schooling so she get used to my presence. Making sure both she and I are safe while getting to know one another will be my top priority.

She will gradually be introduced to the other Equines I care for. If she happens to click with one of them then they shall become her field buddy. It will be hard for them to understand why she does not return their whinnies/neighs of greeting but I have faith that they will figure out that she cannot hear and will merely come over to carefully greet her instead.

Staring over from the very beginning of basic training would not be a good idea as I feel that while this mare was abused, starting training all over again would not be the smartest course of action. She would be introduced to the tack and if she comfortable then I would move to simply walking her around with the tack on. If she reacts well to being simply lead around on lunge line then I will begin to properly lunge her with tack on and off. So I can really see how she moves.

I feel that the safest place to actually ride her once she's ready would be an indoor schooling ring that she's had the chance to fully investigate good and properly. After some research I feel that with enough training she could possibly compete in local competitions even with her disability.

Other:

History:
A group of criminals and smugglers were captured and a small herd of neglected tekes were claimed by the Phaethon's Teke Association. The herd was special, as each had a super shiny coat. It is believed that the smugglers were trying to breed more of these valuable, shiny-coated tekes. However, there is no evidence that they succeeded in passing on the metallic sheen. Unfortunately, the tekes are not in mint condition as a result of the neglect.

The stallion is nearly blind in both eyes as a result of being unprotected from the sun glaring into his pale blue eyes.

The first mare is deaf from unknown causes.

The second mare suffered an injury to her front right knee. Even though it has since healed, she will never be sound.

Each one has been clipped and cared for, but they are still very wary of newcomers. The association is looking to rehome two of these tekes with owners who will rehabilitate them and are seeking applicants as we speak.

Flaws:
This beautiful creature is deaf and quite timid around new people.

Personality:
Serenity is a very quite Teke, who communicates more through body language and actions than the usual equine like noises. She is very timid around new people and would rather hide in the back of her stall or at the bottom of the field until it's safe to come forward. Habitual behavior left over from her time with the cruel people she was rescued from. This poor girl is steadily getting more confident and will hopefully be one day ready to be more social with people, until then she will gently be exposed human contact.

WIP I kind of wanted to cry when read the little history for the special tekes. The poor babies. Blind, deaf and forever unsound q-q

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oh my gosh, as someone who lost partial hearing from unknown causes this literally melts my heart <3 big wip

Owner: ehsaas
Name:
Gender: Mare
Age: 4 years
Height: 15.2 hh

String Color:
Bead Color, Shape, Quantity, and Placement:
Significance:

Rehabilitation Plan:

Other:

[caeleste]

Owner: horsenova
Name: Gold Rush (Gold)
[b]Gender: Mare
Age:[/b] 4
Height: 15.2 hh

String Color: Dark brown, like her ears
Bead Color, Shape, Quantity, and Placement: (from left to right) One mint green bead, one red bead, one gray bead and the one on the string is light blue.
Significance: Green: her time before she was captured
Red: the time of her capture, smuggling, and hearing loss
Gray: for her unsure future
Light Blue: for hope of a new home

Rehabilitation Plan: She will get a vet to check up on her once a week. (Or until she is healthy again.) She will not be ridden until I am confident she can handle it, but we will be on the longe line, probably daily. I will spend as much time as I can to gain her trust, so every day for hours I will be in her stall or grooming her.
Other horses will not be introduced until she is feeling pretty healthy, and when they are it will be slowly, as to not stress either party out. The one she gets along with most will be able to be in her paddock. Feed will be weight supplements, conditioning and basic hay, until she is well again.

Other:
Why do I want her? I would like to help this beautiful Teke because, obviously, she needs help. I've never had a Phaethon's Teke before, so I'm very curious about this special breed.


History: A group of criminals and smugglers were captured and a small herd of neglected tekes were claimed by the Phaethon's Teke Association. The herd was special, as each had a super shiny coat. It is believed that the smugglers were trying to breed more of these valuable, shiny-coated tekes. However, there is no evidence that they succeeded in passing on the metallic sheen. Unfortunately, the tekes are not in mint condition as a result of the neglect.
The stallion is nearly blind in both eyes as a result of being unprotected from the sun glaring into his pale blue eyes.
The first mare is deaf from unknown causes. (This is the mare I am applying for.)
The second mare suffered an injury to her front right knee. Even though it has since healed, she will never be sound.
Each one has been clipped and cared for, but they are still very wary of newcomers. The association is looking to rehome two of these tekes with owners who will rehabilitate them and are seeking applicants as we speak.

These stories remind me of the rescue place I visited in Cali... the rescues were from feral horse roundups, and were so skinny and their eyes were so dull... It was absolutely horrifying. I want to help.

[aray17]

Owner: Aray17
Name: Audriana Lily (Audriana means strength and Lily means trust)
Gender: Mare
Age: 5 years
Height: 15.2 hh

String Color: blue
Bead Color, Shape, Quantity, and Placement: red, circle, 1 bead, towards the front of the neck
Significance: Blue represents trust and loyalty. I want to gain her trust. Red represents strength because she survived being neglected and mistreated. A circle means 'what goes around comes around' which is karma. She was treated badly so her good karma came to her to help her. One bead represents a new beginning. She now has a new beginning thanks to her rescuers. Her bead will be placed near the front of her neck because it is the beginning of her neck and she gets a new beginning of life.

Rehabilitation Plan: To make sure that I do not scare her, I will learn how or be who she was abused by. Every week a vet will come to check on her. I will make sure that it is a vet who is experienced with abused horses. I will make sure that the same vet comes every time so that she will start to build trust. I will observe her behaviors to see if she is afraid of someone or something. When I approach her, I will have a nearby professional so that if she gets spooked, he/she can help me. I will spend as much time as necessary to heal her and to build her trust. I will always have a positive attitude around her because negativity can make you lose trust with a horse. To gain her trust, I will try to slowly approach her and eventually have her allow me to hand feed her. Once I have earned her trust, I will slowly introduce the halter and bridle to her. I will not force her to wear a bit if she's really scared by it. I will feed her vitamins in the beginning to get her healthy then gradually change her diet to more natural substances. The water that she would drink would have fluoride in it to strengthen her teeth. I would give her iron and calcium vitamins to get her bones strong and to prevent her from becoming anemic. I would start her off with the highest quality of hay and after two to three weeks of that I would slowly implement grain into her diet. I would then implement alfalfa and oat into her diet slowly. After a month, or as soon as she is healthy and happy, I would start to train her and get her used to other horses. I would first start off by walking her on a halter and lead and slowly get her to trot and eventually run. Once I think that she would allow me to ride her, I will slowly introduce her to a basic saddle then eventually a more advanced saddle.

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[landofmakebelieve]

Owner: piaffes in the snow
Name: Vintovara "Vinny"
Gender: Mare
Age: 6 Years
Height: 15.2 hh

String Color: Electric Purple
Bead Color, Shape, Quantity, and Placement: The beads will be the color white, and will be shaped as half hearts. There will only be two beads on the ends of each dangling piece of string that hang from the bow, so that when the ends are put together, the two halves make a whole heart and only when she rehabilitated, will then two halves go together.
Significance: She is very elegant, much like my Great grandmother was. She was also a blonde back in her day and was deaf for the last 6 years of her life. Her favorite colors were purple and white and her and I had matching half heart necklaces that when put together made a whole.

Rehabilitation Journal:

Day 1
The mare arrived late yesterday evening, so I decided to give her the night to settle in. I put her into a roomy box stall, one that normally would be used as a foaling stall.

When I arrived at her stall door, I found her pacing unhappily. "Idoit," I muttered to myself. I should have known that the mare would hate being confined. Slowly, I moved into her stall, speaking slowly to her, despite the fact that she is deaf and can't hear me anyway.

As expected, she shied into the corner, tossing her elegant head about. Still moving very slowly, I opened the door to her run-out paddock, then backed out of her stall and latched the door.

The mare danced her feet around a moment, sending shaving flying then trotted out of the stall and into the small paddock. I nodded and headed back to the feed room, where I prepared her small ration of grain. I am going to start her slowly onto grain, just in case.

After putting her grain in her stall, haying her and filling her water, I left her to relax and went off to take care of the other horses.

Caring for the other horses took me about an hour and a half, so by the time I returned to the stall, her feed was gone, as were good portions of her hay and water. I took her feed tub back to the feed room to be scrubbed later, and on my way back to the stall, I stopped at the tack room to grab a soft nylon rope halter and lead.

Realizing that I was probably taking it too fast, I put the halter and lead on a hook outside her stall door and left her for the rest of the day. Tomorrow we would begin.

Day 2
The next morning after my routine of caring for the other horses, I returned to her stall, and she seemed much more relaxed with the ability to go outside at her own will.

I unlatched the stall door and stepped in, halter and lead in hand. She was out in her runout when I stepped in, with her rump to me, and because she is deaf, I had to either wait for her to turn to me, or I'd have to slowly come into her line of view.

So I waited. Patiently I sat by the fence for what had to be at least an hour before she finally turned. She snorted and tossed her glossy mane into the air.

Very slowly I slipped my hand into the front pocket of my baggy sweatshirt and produced a treat. A small portion of a granny smith apple. Just as slowly as I had gotten the treat from my pocket, I held my hand out for her.

She stared at me for some time before taking a few tentative steps in my direction. Just as suddenly as she started to come toward me, she stopped, and continued to eye me cautiously. Then after a few minutes, she would step toward me.

This pattern carried on for fourty-five minutes, until she stood right in front of me. I made no eye contact with her as she slowly extended her muzzle to my hand.

She held it there a moment, probably smelling the other horses off my hand, then lipped up the apple. The pretty mare crunched on the apple then took three steps backward, lowering her head to graze once more. I gave her about ten minutes before I held out another apple slice.

This time she was a little more eager with taking the treat from my hand. But this time she also did not step away before beginning to graze. It surprised me how well this was going.

Once again I waited ten minutes before holding out yet another apple slice. She greedily lipped this one from my palm. Slowly and extremely cautiously, I raised my free hand, as I had set down the halter at my feet, and touched her glossy neck.

She flinched and tensed immediately, but as I offered another apple slice, she relaxed. I stroked her neck and she stood there for me. As she stood, I reached into my pocket to offer another treat, but had come to find that the mare had eaten them all.

Eventually, without treats to occupy her, the golden mare grew bored of me and wandered away to graze. Picking up her halter and lead, I noted in my head that today was a surprisingly good session. Shrugging, I exited her stall and hung up her halter and headed off to finish my chores.

Day 3
This morning, I woke up late. I had forgotten to set my alarm, so I didn't wake up until 7:00, whereas I should have already had all the horses fed and cleaned out by now.

Rushing out to the barn, I could hear the chorus of upset whinnies. Quickly, I mixed grain and filled haynets and water buckets, then mucked out all of the stalls. When I had finally finished at about 9:00, I quickly popped into the tack room and grabbed a halter and lead, then made my way down to Vinny's stall and looked in.

I had attended to her stall first, and already her grain was gone, she had little hay left, and half of her water was gone. She, however, was not in her stall, and as per usual, was out grazing in her run-out. I opened the stall door and stepped in, latching it behind me.

Slowly stepping out of the dimly lit stall into the bright outside, the pretty mare threw her head up. She was facing me this time. As soon as she recognized me this time, her ears flicked forward and she nickered, stepping tentatively closer to me.

I smiled and got an apple slice from my pocket for her, then held it out in my palm once more. The golden mare eagerly lipped the treat up and proceeded to graze at my feet. As she grazed, I slowly unclipped the halter from the leadrope. I then slowly stepped to her shoulder, where I offered another treat to her, but I also held the leadrope in the same hand as the treat.

She sniffed at it cautiously, flicking her ears every which way, before snorting softly and taking the apple slice. I gently stroked her silky neck, then raised the leadrope up to her neck, slowly draping it over her neck. She stiffened, but I offered her another treat and she relaxed, continuing to graze. I slid the leadrope back her neck, so it lay over the center of her back, then picked up the halter.

With a treat held in my palm, and my palm placed in the middle of the nose band, I offered the treat to her yet again. This time, she was extremely hesitant, and it took her I good five minutes to get brave enough to take the treat. We repeated this process with the treat seven times before I slowly pulled the halter up over her ears. At first, she was not pleased, and pulled her head away from me, but then, when I held out my last treat, she let me clip the halter.

Since the halter did seem to bother her any, I left it on her, grabbed my lead rope and left her to relax.

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Tack:
Halter;;Leadrope;;Polos;;Splint Boots;;Bonnet;;English Pad;;Western Pad;;Blanket;;English Riding Tack;;Western Riding Tack

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[SerenWish]

Owner: SerenWish
Name: Kairi (name meaning "song")
Gender: Mare
Age: 9 years
Height: 15.2 hh

String Color: Pale Blue
Bead Color, Shape, Quantity, and Placement: Dark blue feather-shaped bead, and two white beads. On the main part of the string around the neck, above the bow.
Significance: Kairi is deaf, and so music and birdsong are not anything she can hear. However, the freedom that birds have, to go where they wish, and the freedom of music, still rings true for her, as she is newly made free from her neglect and abuse. Blue is considered a color of healing as well, and white is a symbol of purity.

Rehabilitation Plan: Working with Kairi will be a slow and gentle process. Giving her space, but providing her companionship is all important. To avoid overwhelming her, at first, the sessions of working with rehab will be short, and increase in length. The second she begins to show any sign of real panic, we will lessen any pressure.
Because of being deaf, we will do our best not to overwhelm her other senses. We'll be careful to avoid any sudden flashes of light or touches. I'm planning to starting a simple training job.

Other:
Personality: Kairi is very sensitive, especially about touching her face. She is very wary and cautious at first, but also seems to be very gentle with smaller creatures. Shortly after arriving, I walked out to find a small dark shape moving around her paddock. I was worried that she would panic and start tearing around the paddock once again, but upon spotting it, she approached it carefully, like her hooves were trodding on eggshells. I moved closer slowly, to find that the creature was a very small, half-grown wild rabbit, who had hopped in from one of the pastures bordering her paddock. Her soft muzzle touched it, and the litter creature hopped around the paddock, heading back for the grass, but she never panicked nor went after. Even in a state of fear, she is incredibly gentle and shy.
She does seem to crave attention, even if she is nervous. She darts in, then flits back, like a dragonfly or bird trying to find a place to land.
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[Dia.]

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