i started to write this and found janine had alread written it up somewhere'' pretty funny -- good story--- sound like tehre are soe great women in philadelphia...
Covert mission accomplished. Sunny ( a horse that looks like mo) has lived the past 4 years on a concrete slab in a small dog-pen in downtown Philadelphia. Local neighbors have complained. Animal control inspected on many occasions, but if an animal has access to water and hay, they are powerless to do anything.
The relationship with the owner and complaining neighbors had become so adversarial that the owner closed off the garage/barn so the horse was left out in the cold winter with no shelter. Neighbors drove by daily, horrified to see the horse standing in the cold.
The good news is two local woman refused to give up. After exhausting all legal recourses, they found me on the Equine Rescue Network. I did some Googling on the owner and learned of his criminal record and "unusual" business practices. I formulated a plan.
The first step was for me to convince the owner I had cash, to either give to him for the horse OR to hire lawyers to make his life miserable and expose his unusual business practices. He took the cash offer.
Next, the two local woman went door to door and raised the money to get Sunny off the concrete slab and to a local equine sanctuary.
The exchange was at 11am. By 10am, the two woman had the cash and the trailer hooked up....a third woman drove to the exchange site and called in a panic. It was a secluded construction site with a concrete wall around the perimeter. Knowing of the owner's criminal past, we tried not to panic while we scrambled for a new plan, more people and more protection...
11 AM.....I sat patiently from my office in Boston orchestrating what felt like a drug deal - and worrying. What would prevent an animal abusing criminal from grabbing the cash? Had this whole thing just been a set-up? Would Sunny have to endure the rest of his life confined and alone? I don't even know these woman, but they were following my crazy plan and putting themselves in harm's way just to help Sunny - while I sit here staring at the phone. How awful would I feel if things went terribly wrong....
A watched phone never rings, but 22 minutes later it rang and I learned the little team of stealthy woman pulled it off. SUNNY is now on his way to the sanctuary where he can stretch his legs and gallop freely in the fields with other horses.
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i hope janine keeps in touch with this crew that pulled that off.----apparently these woman raised teh required many thousands of dollars from all the neighbors and business in the area.. in 3 hours...
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janine was here becasue a donkey she had stashed at some place in the next town had died and janine wanted to use our tractor to bury it-- under teh manure pile because the frost everywhere else is too significant to chip thru it with our little machine... i lost track of who is pregnant or 2 months old or 6 months old- all i remember is laughing at the story about the penna horse swap deal... and that she then took teh nursing bottle and goats milk replacer with her... so some baby somewhere i s alive... maybe... i can not keep tack... and next spring when we actually can use that back barn tanner builet, i am sure it wlil be more confusing. she has her own army of help- with hors trailers and open stalls to help her shift hosres around.
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we had our minor disasters around here-- the walk in freeer satarted to warm up...( to 30) and it took forever to find teh right thing to google to get a repair person...
I WISH z...... we/you camera people... had a thank you committee where we could get a dozen people - around the world ---to write a nice - short- thank you to a company like that who wentout of theri way to help us.... like 2 different cp's finding and keeping track of 6 - worldwide spread.... wider the better... and put the return address very clearly on the front of teh envelope.. sort of "all the way from alaska, ir the netherlands -or anywhere..."i want to thank you for helping SDP-------" it would help with teh "humdrum" of alot of working people...
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these puppies have to get out of here today-- at least for a while--- tehy are doing laps around the fireplace...
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I JUST DON’T KNOW WHAT TO SAY. THIS VIDEO SAYS IT ALL! BELLA IS DOING AMAZINGLY WELL POST SPINAL FUSION. UP AND TRYING TO WALK WITH HELP 5 DAYS LATER! THEY ARE KEEPING HER UP WITH ALL HER MEDS JUST SO SHE DOESN’T FALL BEHIND. BUT SHE IS DOING GREAT. FOR NOW THE PLAN IS TO GO HOME ON WEDNESDAY. WE CAN FINALLY SEE A LIGHT AT THIS END OF THIS TUNNEL. SO ENJOY THIS VIDEO SINCE IT MAKES ME SMILE!! MUCH LOVE BELLA AND GEORGE
