Amanda The Great Pony Rescuer!

So now that we're not getting public in anymore (site's last day was Monday, after a ridiculously busy and crazy and exhausting three days of turkey dinners), we go to work early (8:30!), and it's crazy. All summer, I have been sleeping in until 8:45 so it's hard for me to get my body into the swing of things, really.

Anyways, this morning, I dodged a really cute German Shepherd that was getting into some skunky roadkill only to nearly run into what I thought from a distance was a baby moose. Turns out it was a pony, just standing there into the middle of the road.

I pulled over my van, flicked on the four ways and, to the amazement of the car behind me, walked right up to the pony, put my hands on his halter and led him into the nearest driveway. He was standing between two across-the-road-neighbors - I have seen him in the pastures on either side of the road but most recently on the left hand side, so I got him up in there, and then let go of him to knock on the door. The woman was angry (it's not her pony, just her neighbor taking advantage of her) because she can't keep the pony in her poorly strung fence (under which he can easily crawl - he's a pony for god's sake!), and she can't keep him tied (we have a pony we can't keep tied but solve that problem with a neck rope). She told me the guy wants to sell him - for $600. She confided that he had paid only $300 for the pony but he had "bought a saddle and bought some hay and stuff" so he wanted to make the money up! HA! I nearly laughed myself sick once I got in the van.

When she came out, he took off - she said "he hates me" - the woman came to look at our horses for sale a few years ago and was amazed that we could walk right into standing stalls with our horses and be safe - they had a stallion at their place that I am pretty sure starved to death and died... so I took more time and ended up being half an hour late, and caught him for her again and helped her put him back in the fence. When I came by there tonight on the way home, he was still in the fence so hopefully he hasn't run any stupid Houdini tricks. He's a really cute pony but $600 is a little bit ridiculous in my opinion.