[mongrel]

username: doggface
show name: adagio's love bites
barn name: campbell
gender: stallion
age: 5 yr.
height: 15.3hh
halter: artist's choice
discipline:
competition:

[hellenistic]

Username;; tenturo
Show Name: laiteux
Barn Name: pluto
Gender: Stallion
Age: 13 years
Height: 15.2hh
Halter: deep red w/ gold hardware
Discipline: calf roping
Competition:

Oh, Pluto? Ah, I figured you'd want to know about him. He's one of our rescues, from a situation we got involved in a few years back. Word was going around about some malnourished and improperly cared for horses on a little farm up closer to the mountains, and we got called to see about retrieving them. The day we went up there was pretty cloudy and chilly, but that tends to be normal around here until the middle of summer, y'know? We pulled up the driveway and it was all grown over, the grass in the tiny little pasture was almost taller than the fence itself. We searched the property a bit, but found no sign of anyone still living there. The doors to the house were barred shut, the place had basically been abandoned. We found all of the horses cooped up in the barn. No stalls, just an open barn with 3 horses locked up inside. No food, no water, barely any light.

We had no idea who owned the property and couldn't do much legally to get the horses out of there, so, we waited. We went back to our property and brought our two trailers, they're only 2-horse trailers, mind you, and went back once it started getting dark.
The wind had picked up and it was raining a bit, and we could tell a storm was coming, so we had to move quickly. We managed to get the two loaded up into the first trailer, and my partner went ahead and took them back to Oakridge, but Pluto was already terrified. The storm had started, and every time the thunder boomed, he spooked even more. You could tell he wasn't used to being in the trailer, and he didn't trust me in the slightest. I finally managed to get him inside and started following my partner back to the farm, but he was quite a ways ahead of me.

I hadn't even been driving for more than 10 minutes and Pluto was all over the place back in the trailer, kicking and pacing and making the trailer sway. The storm had gotten pretty bad, and it was pitch black outside, which didn't help much either. We came up to a curve in the road, about 5 miles away from the farm, when lightning struck right by the road. He freaked out and shifted the weight of the trailer so hard that my tires spun out, and we went straight off the road. Wrecked head-on into a tree just down off the ditch. Just a couple bumps and bruises, but the wreck added so much more trauma to the poor guy. We don't get good weather as it is, and most storms still make him pretty antsy, but he does a lot better with the trailer now. He still doesn't have much trust in anyone who hasn't been around him very much, unless it's kids, which he's never seemed to have a problem with.

We got really lucky that no one was hurt, but man, we could've done without that wreck. He was difficult enough to work with due to his life before we got him, and the trauma from the wreck didn't make it any easier. But hey, we all grow, right? He's a great horse now, been winning a lot of rodeos in the area. What about you though, partner? What makes you so nervous?

congrats ! i really enjoy the improvement of this boy c:

[tenturo]

aH im crying im so obsessed w this kid 🥺😭 tysm berz