Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Chaos's Six Year Anniversary and Seventh Birthday

Six years ago during Memorial Weekend, we brought Chaos home. He was an unhandled yearling stud at the time. Boy was that a learning curve on my part. I’d only worked with older horses and thought being around six year olds was rough.  Chaos has taught me a lot over these past six years. I really did luck out with him. If he hadn’t been naturally laid back, I don’t know what I would have done.

I consider Chaos one of the first rescues. He was headed to an auction with a gigantic cut on his leg, wasn’t halter broke, and although he came from registered parents, there was a mix up with the paperwork leaving him grade.  Had be run through the auction as is, he wouldn’t have brought much money, mainly because he was still a stud at the time. I don’t know how to emphasis to people that taking a stud to a loose auction or a low end auction is practically a death sentence.

I really consider myself blessed to have been at the right place at the right time. Everyone thought I was nutz for even considering bringing him home. But he’s since turned into an amazing horse and a well-established fixture at Borderlands.  At the time we brought Chaos home, I thought I wanted to still be a rescue but over the past six years I’ve decided that I’d much rather be a sanctuary and let the rescues handle the young horses. But I will never regret stepping up and offering Chaos a permanent home.

And if my memory serves me correctly, the latter part of May is when Chaos was born. So he’s technically seven years old. How time flies.

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