Auction Today :-(

I'm planning on leaving soon to attend the Sioux Falls Regional Livestock Horse Sale. The sale starts atl 11am. I like to be there an hour early so that I can look through the loose horses without much interference.

The new management has changed where they put the loose horses so it might make it easier to see them while the auction is going. For whatever reason, the loose horses are kept very close to the auction ring and the consigned horses go up and down the aisles of the loose horses. It was different last time so we'll see.

I really don't like auctions. I'm actually a little queezy just thinking about it. I know some enjoy going to auctions to just hang out and spend the day. It's not the case for me. All I see are so many "potential family members" going to kill. I don't know what more I can do. Being that we are a sanctuary where we keep them until their dying day rather than a rescue where we screen and find potential homes, it's a little hard to take in many. I should probably change our focus but I'm drawn to the oldsters. They deserve just as much respect as those young 'uns.

We'll see how today goes. I'm not in a position to bring anyone home. We are maxed out. There are horses now in every pen and even in temporary pens. I'm still trying to come up with a permanent solution for Thor, which is giving me a bit of a headache. I'm contemplating having Thor and Babe meet to see if that would be a good combination. They met once before this past fall but that was a whole different time and a whole different situation.

Keep your fingers crossed that there are no real bad starvation cases at the auction (although that's now hardly the case since the state wont' allow super thin horses to run through). I'm sure there will be a dozen or so that catch my eye.

I'm not sure how many horses will even be there what with this being Easter Weekend. I hope that there are a lot of people and not a lot of horses. Now to settle my nerves. Think I'll go out and do chore and give everyone a great big hug and tell them how blessed I am to have them here.

Please pray for those that aren't going to make it today.