Extreme Mustang Makeover 2008 Final

wow. that's a really talented pair.

That is AMAZING! What a bummer he fell off! Shoot, I've done that before...a clean slick horse, with new slick clean blankets= saddle slipage...but they still won! WOO HOO!

Gelding sure...gelding is easy and fairly cheap, but do you have any idea how hard it is to spay a HORSE?? Spaying a mare is just isn't an option, I don't think, unless they find another cheaper way to do a full hysterectomy on a horse. Who knows though, they might. :-)

I know people that have had mares spayed because they were carriers of hereditary diseases that didn't need to be passed on. It happens all the time. Abdominal surgery is getting much less invasive with new technology. I'm not saying it would be cheap necessarily but I'm sure there are at least a few horse loving vets out there that will be willing to donate some of their services. I know mine would.

It's totally possible to do the surgery, but I'm mostly thinking after-care like pain meds and antibiotics and stall rest. Thats where it would get tricky. There are plenty of vets out there that would donate their time, I'm sure. But there are so many of them. :-( It makes me sad to think of all those horses sitting there in limbo. I sure hope they figure somthing out soon.

Well yeah. But I guess there was some rich lady that adopted a bunch of them and had them all sterlized, then turned them out on some huge property somewhere. Too bad there aren't more crazy-rich horse lovers out there..

I know, right? Shoot!

Exactly! There are just too many horses and not enough homes. I heard most of the horses sitting in those holding pens are starving to death because of lack of funding to get feed out there to 'em or getting the "lot sickness" What's more humane? Waiting for them to die a slow death while we twiddle our thumbs trying to decide what to do with them, or euthenizing?

Definitely. Best part is, they got away with it. Grr.