Katawasin Updates

"When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in a manner so that when you die the world cries and you rejoice."
- Native American Proverb

I found this lil quote in my new Chicken Soup for the Horse Lovers Soul book, part two. In it contains a story of an unwanted colt found abandoned, the colt grows up and becomes the life force and life energy for a young girl who really needed a best friend, someone to get her through those difficult and turbulent times.

I was just reading the blog on northernhorse this morning about a baby colt found alone along the Red Deer River, and all the efforts made to save his young life.

What a contrast to the story i heard of the horrendous happenings at a local auction mart this past week. An unwanted pony mare giving birth to her foal in the back crowded pens of the auction. A prolapsed uterus, going into shock, barely able to hang on. The staff not wanting to incure any bills on her behalf. It kinda makes a person sad, cynical when hearing these stories, and we hear them all too often unfortunately. But there were many people on standby who cared enough to jump in and lend a hand! It is these type of folks who give us hope for horses.

It brings to mind that saying, "what is truley frightening when bad behavior becomes what is normal." What happened this past week at the auction is not normal, and I am happy to hear that so many others stepped in for the mare and foal.

I know that these unwanted horses, often if given the chance, and lucky enough to find their niche in life, their person, their home ... have so much to offer. A horse can be born with all the right ingredients, the bloodline, the confirmation, the mind and temperament... but it takes the right owner to bring them to their real potential in life.