[canis,]

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[Heart Land]

Username:heart land
Equid Name:Rene
Equid Age:4
Story:he phone rings, my friend tells me to get over to her place we are going to pick up a baby in exchange for the saddle money, I don't want a baby I tell her, I don't need another horse, I have two as it is, no no no..... as I am saying this all the lies and ill feelings creep up and I agree to at least go look. I am telling myself that I can sell the baby and recover some of my money. OK

Off we go, myself, my friend and her daughter. . We talk an the way over I am still not really sure about this but yea I guess it will be ok. I left in such a hurry that I had not even called my husband, oh he is going to kill me.

We get there and the baby is gone, seems I am not the only one she owes money to..... I don't really care I just want to get out of there I don't like this place, I don't like this woman her energy is bad, please lets just go before I say something. I wonder off while my friend is talking to this women and I hear "ok I'll ask", "there is a skinny mare in the brood mare pasture, if you want her you can have her". Oh great we go from a baby to a skinny mare, now I am just mad and think yes lets go look. The pasture is not on her property , it is one that she rents, we need to drive else ware. I told her if after looking at the horse I decided to take her home that I would call.. "Oh no need for that, if she is gone she's gone." " I will know you took her" That my friends should have been a clue! That is the place I should have thought wait! something is wrong with this picture. That is the point I should have said no and gone home
This is the place of no return
On the ride over to the pasture I think, ok, a full grown horse, that may be easier to sell than a baby. Plus in the mean time, I can ride her, right, right!... Ok this may not be so bad.

So we head over. There were 5 mares in this pasture and even though they were all skinny there was no doubt which one she was talking about. She had two blankets on her making her look kind of funny, bulky in a weird kind of way, yet....just not right. At first I thought it was to keep her warm, but I am sure it was more to hide her condition from prying eyes.

We all get out and walk over to her, we are not talking, I don't think anyone knew what to say. I place my had under her blankets and was horrified by what I felt. I could not believe it, how could this be? I told my friend to check it out, she just stood and shook her head, she had seen this before, she knew.

Carrie goes to see the people who own the property and tell them we may be taking this horse. I stay with the horses. Carrie comes back awhile later and asks what I think, do I want to take her?. I don't think it was really a question, she knew the answer.

Now we don't even have a halter, we were picking up a baby what did we need with a horse size halter ok then we will make one out of rope. Carrie and her daughter do that while I just stand with the horse thinking I must be out of my mind but knowing I could not leave her here. ( my regret was that I could not take them all) We get it on her and I lead her off. She dose not want to leave her friends, she puts up a little fight, as much as her weak body would let her.

No kidding about an hour later we are still trying to get her in the trailer, we are soaking wet, tired, hungry, cold and frustrated. The whole time the horse is looking and yelling for her friends. Carrie asks if I want to reconsider, I think it was the look on my face and her daughters that kept her trying. Finally we, no Carrie gets her in and off we go.

My heart is saying I am doing the right thing, my wallet is screaming wait a minute, listen to me, huge vet bills for a horse you are bringing home because someone owes you money. Something is wrong with this picture!!!! You are getting took again!!!!

Now I am thinking, ok I will get home before my husband who at this point dose not know I am coming home with this horse. Maybe I can hide her, she wont take up much space.... We pull in and of all days for him to be home early. I jump out of the truck and go into the house, oh honey, I say in my false sweet voice, I hear " is there a horse in that trailer"? LOL, he knows me well! I say "you need to come and look at her" and before he can say anything I am back out the door. He had the same look on his face that I had when I first saw her. Remember he is new to all of this as well.
We take a real look at her

We get her in a stall and now we need to take a real look at her, we need to remove the blankets. Up to this point we have not really seen her. I was not prepared and truly no words can described what we saw. We were looking at a walking, breathing, living, skeleton. I have never in my whole life seen anything like this. There were patches of skin showing were hair should have been, her coat was not just dull, it was dead, her body was so awful , it was surreal. Her legs had scabs all over them, her hips jutted out, you could clearly see each and every rib....... There was nothing in her eyes, there was nothing in her, she was blank, she was empty. I remember thinking an anatomy class would love to study her..... The next hour was just a blur we were all trying to take this in, disbelief turned to anger, and back to disbelief. Ok what now!

[Wolf's Spirit]

Username:Wolf's Spirit
Equid Name:Rising Glory
Equid Age: half a year
Story: Rising Glory was just a foal. In the middle of the night during a very harsh winter, the mountain lions attacked. They killed every horse in the herd exept for Rising Glory. Her twin sister was being attacked be side her. Their mother tried to defend them, but four mountain lions jumped on her.Rising Glory would never forget her last, angry, scream. Morning Glory reared and tried to knock of the mountain lion of her sister, who was also her best friend and the only relative she had left. It was already too late. Blood gushed out of a fatal wound on her sister's neck and covered Rising Glory in it. She had a huge gash in her neck and the mountain lion that attacked her bit her left hind leg. Miraculously, Rising Glory escaped but her attacker followed in hot persuit. She had given up all hope. Rising Glory scrambled into a cave that had an entrance so narrow, that she barely slipped through. The mountain lion could not reach her. Oh, but it tried. For at least a day, it clawed and scraped vicuosly at the gap that was her only protection against the mountain lion. Finnally, it left to go prey on some other helpless Wild Mountain Equid. Rising Glory's head slumped with fagitude. She had a raging fever. As she lay shivering in the cold, Rising Glory saw it. Light filtered through a crack in the wall behind her. She wobbled to her legs and reared, banging her front hooves into the wall.a couple rocks broke free, and before her lay a beautiful valley. it was surrounded by towering mountains on all sides and had a crystal clear stream running through it. It was considerably warmer here, and there was no snow. She was the only creature in the valley besides the butterflies and birds that flew around the many floweres and trees. Rising Glory like it there. She stayed until the snow thawed in the outside world, and then countinued on with her adventures, leaving the pretty little vallley behind. Now She was so big that she had to loosen some rockes to get out. Rising Glory would never forget that valley that brought her such protection in her greatest peril.

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[Birchwood Hollow]

See! I knew you'd win!! Congrats!!!

[I have no love]

aww come on! i didn't even get to finish mine cause my brother kicked me off *pouts *. Anyway congrats on the win Zyktara take good care of this darling.

[canis,]

@ I Had No Love: I'll soon be making another WME, so you can enter for that one. It'll be another story one, because I love reading them.

[I have no love]

OK then (hopefully another sad one cause I have an awesome idea for it.)