Introducing My Girl

Yesterday we had some excitement. We haven't brought in a new Sanctuary horse since December 2015 when we welcomed Lace. (I bought Lightening as a personal horse for drill team in January 2017 but that doesn't count for Sanctuary numbers.)


We'd been working since December to bring in our newest member of the Sanctuary, My Girl. The weather didn't cooperate and life sorta got in the way but we finally made arrangements for My Girl to come live with us.


She comes from an owner who wanted to do right by her and you can tell in everything this mare does that she's been well cared for. She was groomed down to the last hair (I felt bad for putting her in the pen because even her hooves were clean and shiny, which is hard to do with all this mud). Her owner was having some medical issues that needed to be taken care of and wouldn't allow her to take care of My Girl so we said yes.


I realize that there may be a rub for some reading that last year. We were asked to take in horses last year and we had to turn them away. Saying no caused me much anxiety but my own medical issues needed to be taken care of first. But now that I'm no longer pregnant, we can open our doors to one or two horses and My Girl just happened to fit our criteria and our timing.


I wish that we could open our doors to every deserving horse but because we are a Sanctuary, we have to take into consideration many factors. But I digress. Back to My Girl.


I haven't spent much time with her. I want to give her the next few days to settle in and figure out the ropes. I put her in the smaller pen next to the geldings so she was able to meet everyone that wanted to come up to the fence. Of course Chaos, Dude, and King were right there trying to see what this new horse was all about.


This morning, I found My Girl standing next to Brego (fence in between), quietly enjoying each others company. This is why I love Brego. He's my Walmart greeter. He wants to make sure that everyone feels welcome.


You can tell My Girl has been handled a lot . She came right up to me this morning without even knowing our routine. I think she was looking for answers. She had a questioning look on her face. If I could only tell her that everything will be alright.


But for now, she's in a pen with the geldings in another pen next to her. Depending on if there's time tonight, I may introduce the mares to her or I may just let her hang out for another day or two in a pen by herself so she gets used to me and the horses from afar. She's already gone through a lot of stress having to move from the only home she's ever known. She's only ever had one owner in her entire life so this is a big change for her. We want to take things slow and make sure we keep the stress to a minimum.


I'll be posting more (probably on Facebook) but wanted to share here as a record as well.


Please meet our newest member, My Girl.

You don't have to  look far to  notice she doesn't have a spec of dirt on her except her hooves and that's because I had to put her in this pen. She was groomed from head to hoof before coming to the Sanctuary.