Phanton and Bubba Louie have been part of our family for four years. We got them when the girls wanted any horse, just to have horses. The owner was moving and wanted a good home for them. Since they had injuries as weanlings they weren't rideable and as we soon found out, they were extremely high strung. They have been together since they were babies and don't like being separated.
The girls are older and we have acquired other horses that they can ride (a total of 6). With the drought this year and gas prices so high the hay cutter took 2/3 instead of 1/2, we don't have enough hay to carry us through the winter. So we had to find homes for some horses.
I made arrangements with Kentucky Equine Humane Center to take Phantom and Bubba, arranged for a truck and trailer to haul them, took off work and found out at the last minute that they had to have a negative coggins test. We loaded them to take them to the vet to draw blood. Not an easy task. They had only been in a horse trailer once before in their lives and they didn't like the looks of this one. When we finally got them loaded we started talking about how to get them loaded next week for the trip to Nicholasville. Todd, being a cow and goat person, wasn't too anxious to go through that ordeal again and myself, looking at scraping together almost $300 to give away two horses, started talking about what to do with them.
After a couple phone calls we finally decided to take them to the stockyards and let them go through the sale ring Saturday. I'm trying not to think about what will happen to them from there. They are both sweet and I wish they could have lived out there lives right where they were. I feel like such a traitor.
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