My New " baby"

Blue Eyes 409 · #1 June 28th, 2009, 04:39 PM

We have been looking into getting this horse for two months beause the owner is not taking care of him and today we finally agreed to take him and make him part of our family. He is going to need to love and lots of food but I am hoping that he will love us as much as we already love him here is my Son Nooley ...

#2 June 28th, 2009, 07:19 PM

He's beautiful.. but is he malnourished?

His poor ribs are sticking out. Is that what you mean the owners not taking care of him? Poor guy. Good for him that you found him!

Blue Eyes 409 · #3 June 28th, 2009, 07:38 PM

Yes the owner did not feed him or take care of him. Our friends have been helping to feed him the past few weeks but he needs extra food and care. We are having him shoed this week and going to look at some food that will fatten him up. They put him in a stall and he "cribbed" that caused him to lose weight to. We are going to fatten him up as fast as we can.

#4 June 28th, 2009, 08:29 PM

I'm so glad you care enough to take him! Lucky horse! It makes me sad someone could do that to an animal.

You can totally tell the difference between him and your other horses, I'm sure you'll have him fattened up in no time! lol What do you mean by "cribbed" ? I am not familiar with this term. Where did you get his name?

Tammyms · #5 June 28th, 2009, 09:48 PM

I can't wait to see pics when you get him healthy again! Very sad that anyone would make an animal suffer, but kudos to you for taking him in and how rewarding it will be to see him happy and fat

Arya · #6 June 29th, 2009, 05:17 AM

Your new horse is a beauty, I'm so glad you found him

Blue Eyes 409 · #7 June 29th, 2009, 07:51 AM

This is our 1st horse the other ones are our friends. You can see they look great but poor Nooley looks so bad. He is looking a little better than he did but I can't wait to fatten him up.

Here is something I found about cribbing.

Cribbing, is deemed an obsessive compulsive disorder in some horses. It is a vice also known as wind sucking. A horse or pony who cribs, will bite onto a solid object such as a fence or stall door, arch their neck and sharply suck in air. For a horse owner, it can mean the difference between normal, happy horse ownership and long, grueling processes of prevention and cringes at the sound of the grunt they make when they suck in that air!