If Wishes Were Horses...

Beggars would ride. It's one of my favorite sayings. But almost every day I read about someone giving their horses away or "selling them for a song." It's an extremely sad situation caused by the increase in hay prices (almost double). I also heard a lot of farmers are switching to growing corn for ethanol for hybrid cars.

There's also the closing of the slaughterhouses, which is a very complicated issue. Plus the Bureau of Land Management wild horse adoption rate has plummeted.

How ironic! How many people like me have wanted a horse all their lives? Free horses...but who can afford to feed them?

(The photo is from the daring horse rescue in the Netherlands in November 2006 by four young women on horseback).

Kennel 35

This Irish setter did not even have the dignity of having a name when he/she was killed. I don't know which "shelter" he or she was in. I ran across it when I was looking in the "In Memoriam" section for another one of the Nogales dogs, which appears to have been spared. Well, at least they tried to save it. I think I have a web page bookmarked that's about the dogs at the Rainbow Bridge who don't have people waiting to see them again. I'll have to look.

The purebred lab Onyx has been given 3 more days. I hope it gets rescued. If I could, I would go get him, because I know I could find him a home, but I don't have the room right now.