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Nora and Kaylea

When I found out what a horse was I fell in love. Every day I would ask my parents “When can I get a horse?” they would always reply “Sometime.”

Then one day I went to a conference and my teacher said “We're getting my daughter a horse - do you want to board at our house.” We answered “Yes.” One night I was over at the Hill’s house and my dad came to pick me up and when I got in the house I went over to the couch and sat by my mom and my dad sat in our chair and they said “We’ve adopted Nora.” I didn’t believe them at first then the showed me the papers. I will never forget that day: 5/27/05.

We put her in training for a month and for the last three days my trainer Joe wanted me out there. On the second day (which was 7/2/05) she started to buck even though I grabbed her neck and swung off my parents felt safer if we kept her at Majestic Knights. Now I keep Nora out there with Ashley, Sam and Lexi.

 Thanks to all the people who helped me get Nora, they are Drew, Wendy, the Hills, my trainer Joe and most importantly my parents.

- Kaylea

Dave's New Life

To Drew and the other great volunteers:

Just would like you to know how wonderful "Dave" is. We could have not asked for such a kind and sweet horse. He is working out just grand and has adapted very well to his new home.

When he arrived at French Lake stables last Friday night, December 23rd, 2005, he took a good look at the new surroundings before exiting the trailer and let out  several whinnies to announce that it looked just fine here. When entering the barn he proceeded to greet all that were waiting for him with several more announcements that he had arrived and was anxious to see them all!

Dave - now Juddie Dave (or Jud) - and Meg have become fast friends. She has been spending time with him each day and all is going very well. All others at the farm seem to enjoy him also and have complemented on how nice he is.

Our other horse, Buddy, is a little jealous, however we have informed him that he needs to get over this stage and NOW is a good time for that. I think this soon will pass as we include both in activities.

Thank you again for the perfect match. We could have not asked for a better gift in this special horse.

Drew and others, you have a special gift and are caring beyond words for all of these animals. We should all be thankful that there are people such as yourselves there to  provide the care and kindness needed to the animals who are so deserving of it.

Sue and Meg Miller

Jess and Thunder Zone

Dear MNHARF,

I just wanted to send you an update on Thunder Zone, aka Thibidoux and now known as Tibby.

Tibby is doing great. I have felt so blessed by being allowed to own him. He is truly one of "my boys." Every day he makes me laugh with his curiosity and insistence on being paid attention to. He has made fast friends with the 29 year-old (sometimes crabby) mare that he shares his pasture with. They are now hard to separate. It helps me to feel confident when I leave the farm that he has a more experienced partner to guide him through the ropes of pasture life. I have just spent a good portion of my summer building a fence to enclose a new section of pasture so they now have an additional couple of acres to graze and roam around in.

We have done some riding and every time that I go out on him he shows me how special he really is. He is so quiet and gentle, if he startles at something, he jumps and then he is done. If you tell him that something is okay, he calms right down. The first time I took him outside of the pasture to ride, I was a little nervous since I didn't know what to expect from this ex-racehorse. He was great! He is a born trail horse. He is always looking forward to see what is around the next corner and loves to be out. He was so good that first time out my husband decided that he would get up on him. That was amazing since my husband has only been on a horse one time, when he was six years old! So I boosted him up and led him around like an oversized pony ride. Tibby was fantastic.

I fall more in love with him every day and I want you to know that he has definitely found his home for life. Thank you so much!!

Sincerely,
Jessica Hovet