Emaciated Mare arrives @ Safe Haven Horse Rescue!

This horse was brought into Safe Haven, yesterday Sept 16th 2009. She was brought up from Glen county, by a gentleman, who came home to find her in one of his horse pens!!!!!! Who ever left her, also left some hay, and the gentleman said that it wasn't even good enough to feed to cows!, it was all full of star thistle! The family, in Glen cty. called her Rescue Dawn, after a gal in a movie......that was a little hard 'rolling' off the tongue........ so, I changed it Delta Dawn, for now.

This is the condition of this poor baby girl, AFTER.......a month on good hay!!!! & the gentleman, also floated her teeth!!!! Can you imagine the condition he recieved her in???? GOOD GOD! why didn't they give her away BEFORE she was in this condition?

This pic really shows what I now call 'the tea cup syndrome' as I truly believe that you could put a cup & saucer on the top of that rib cage & it would stay there :[ :[

What a sad, sad, past this poor girl has endured!

Linda R. is giving her a betadine bath, as she had some 'fungus amongus.' She has an injury on her back leg, the guy said she probably got hung up in a fence, & that it was alot better now, not as swollen.


She is enjoying her bath & looks like she is taking a little nap in the sun!

She is gonna be a beautiful horse again, someday, (give Linda & her mush a few months )

You can tell that feels soooooooo......good! I think she "says a little to the left please!"

Linda is rinsing her off now & will wash her face. She is quite use to a bath, as she stood very still, & didn't spook at anything ( not like she has the strength!!!!!) These are very hard pics to see..........the unkindness that humans inflict on poor innocent animals.....it really rips your guts open!!

BUT, take heart in knowing that this baby girl is on the mend!!!! Safe Haven Horse Rescue w/ Linda R. & her 'village' of dedicated volunteers, will have her back to being a healthy horse in a few short /long months! Dr. Art is coming out to recheck on Drifter's eye, & Candy's eyes tomorrow, so we will have him access Delta Dawn too. I'll keep ya posted on that!

Bye for now,

Linda C.