Congratulations on the new horse!! Glad to hear he’ll get a soft landing.
The BEST NEWS EVER💗. What a lovely pony. I hope you both have the times of your lives!!!
It sounds like Poofy won the lottery!
Congratulations on your new friend.
I am saddened that one is having to be put down because this person refused to give the care they were being paid to give. I am thankful that there is that option to allow the horse a peaceful ending.
Godspeed good horse, godspeed.
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Perfectly reasonable to me!
You are a saint! I love Poofy’s eye. He’s not gonna know what hit him! This is a bright spot in an otherwise tragic story.
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Welp, then the law should go after them, too. Gross.
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I’m actually teary-eyed. (Sappy me.) Congrats on your cutey!
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Great pictures! You brought tears of joy to my eyes, too.
Front page of Richmond Times Dispatch today:
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Oh … and “ watched over them day and night”. I cannot express how repulsive I find this woman to be.
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Except for times she was, you know, showing her own well cared for horses and judging at horse shows.
How do you watch over pasture boarded horses day and night? Camp out in the pasture? Set an alarm every 3 hours?
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I was wondering about this as well. What part of the silence and lack of responses from the local equestrian community ( as mentioned upthread) have to do with her role as a judge in the regional show system.
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If anybody still has doubts, here’s a comparison. Horse in foreground of one pic is the same horse pictured at the vet.
Chunky healthy pic taken in May 2022, thin pic taken in February 2023.
Horse was healthy with no underlying issues.
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Once more, I hope she goes to jail for something… fraud for her 501(3)C … this is just unbelievable and unconscionable.
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I am sure that had something to do with it, but I also think that most of the owners over the years felt a lot of shame and guilt about what happened when they would find out and remove their horses. They didn’t have the emotional bandwidth to deal with the potential backlash when it was all they could do to keep putting one foot in front of the other to get their horse well again.
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Thank heaven for those vets raising the flag with the owners. I think it will be a lot harder to quash the voices of multiple highly respected vets over the squalling of “old horses just get skinny in the winter” of the good-ol’-girl circle.
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This absolutely disgusts me! I just read the article. Byrd and her friends are effing delusional if they think this is “part of life” and think that these horses are being kept comfortably. 
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I’m sure the price points are vastly different, but all you have to do is compare these retirees with the retirees at Madden Mountain. It is definitely not just a “part of life” to allow a horse to get skinny over the winter.
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For sure not a fact of life thinking old=condition loss. Loss of athletic muscle tone, sure, but not emaciation.
I look forward to reports on Poofy Progress. He, along with Bo can be my grandponies from afar
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For me, “Seasonal Condition” is I want them carrying a little extra weight in October, (body score 6) so when the pasture dies back, they have a little cushion. There’s a period of time where they still prefer grazing to hay, even thought there’s little nutrition in the grass, and they drop a little then. (Down to a 5)
In March, before Dr. Green shows up, I like them at a 5. Definitely not a 6 or 7, because then you have to limit access to the fresh spring grass. For my tiny foundery pony, I might let him be a 4 or 4.5 going into spring grass so I have a little latitude, even though I know I’ll have to limit his grass intake anyhow.
That’s Seasonal Condition, varying between a 4 and a 6. A body score of 1.5 is starving, period.
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