Status:

Name: Melssa

Age: estimated to be 18-20 via condition of teeth.

Height: 15.2 hh

Color: sorrel

Mane & tail: Same color as body

Weight:
Here is the most horrid part about it, she is estimated to weight at about 700lbs.
She SHOULD weight 1200 - 1500 lbs [For her body frame.
She is 500+ lbs under weight.

Condition:
You can count every rib this horse has.
Her hip bones stick out like a cows, and you can see her hip bones at the top of her rump. Two pointed peaks. She has major hair loss on her back from rain rot. She is so poor and in need of help.


Before pictures will be up soon, well... Before pictures because I am going to take After pictures when we get her back to her self.


History about her:

She was born to a husband and wife, and older couple.
She lived her whole life with them, but when the man's wife died he refused to sell her because it was his wife's horse. He was 96 yrs old and unable to care for her. She wasn't fed like she was suppose to be, she wasn't looked after. And I cant blame him for not wanting to sell her, she is an amazing animal... but... any responsible owner will sell their animal when they can no longer care for it.

She was taken by the Humane Society and a girl named Holly bought her. Since she was rescued form the man, she has gained about 300 lbs. I have never in person, seen a horse in such bad shape as her. And to image, I am seeing her NOW with 300lbs more on her. I cant even THINK of how bad she looked 300lbs lighter.
Holly ended up getting very sick, and developing a brain tumor so she gave the horse to my aunt Lorie.

I went to visit Lorie the other day when I was off work, and was messing with her horses. The first time I have ever been out to her farm. I was messing around with her large mare [forget her name] when Melissa came to me. I saw her and my heart sunk. Lorie had told me about the rescue horse she had gotten but I never imaged she was in this shape. I fell in love with her. Lorie saw that too.

I went to get the brush and I started brushing all the dead hair off her, she still had her winter coat, her back was bald from the rain rot. Lorie has given Melissa her shots and wormer, so she was starting to gain back weight and shed out her coat from winter. Lorie went inside to get something and I kept brushing her. She loves attention.

One thing i noticed when I saw her, she looks like my dead mare I had... Little Girl. Her eyes, her features.... Everything reminds me of my dead horse Little Girl.

Little girl was my first horse, the horse tattoo'd on my back, the horse I will never forget. My first horse, and the only horse I have had. I never thought about getting another one until now, and my heart is screaming and praying that I will be able to get Melissa.

I took mom to see Melissa last night and mom and I both cried.
You cant help but cry when the horse you are looking at reminds you of the angel that you lost 4 years ago. I miss Little Girl more then ever now, but I know Melissa needs someone to love her like I did Little Girl. And as much as I am crying when I write this, I know this is what I have to do.

Lorie offered me Melissa yesterday.
$50.00.
That is cheap, and I am sure she would have even given her to me if she hadn't already put so much time into her.




Pray for Melissa, and that she ends up with me.


For those who didn't know, Little Girl was also a human society case, and we nursed her back to health. She was never as bad as Melissa though.
It's going to take a lot of time, and quite a bit of money but I am willing to invest to save her.

I need her, as much as she needs me.







s... and even though she is this thin and this unhealthy, she still has her spirit. She tosses her head, she trots around, she nickers at you....
Even after all this, she is not broken.
I love arabian attitudes, and their spirits. <3