"Khismet"

I've Found A New Home!!

We went to the feedlot to bath L.P. Fury and Annie, the NSH mare, for their trip home the next day. In a corner pen by himself was a lovely chestnut stallion--no papers, no freezebrand--just the gentle beauty and affection of an Arabian. Three hundred pounds underweight, with an inch of mud caked on his lower legs, and standing still in 8 inches of disgusting muck! Now what are his possibilities?

Some macho man may come along and want a stallion to ride him in a constant frenzy to prove his riding prowess?

Someone wants a stallion to breed -- oh, great--more grade horses at the feedlot three years from now!!

The truck to Texas?

The very moment I saw him--the split second I walked into his pen and he put his large lovely head down and against me while I scratched behind his ears--I KNEW without a doubt that this boy was coming 'home'. NO WAY was he going to slaughter! He simply climbed into my heart and head, and I won't sleep well until he's safe.

I need to raise about $1,000---to buy him, haul him home, geld him, and board him for at least a month--he will stay with me until he has calmed and is rideable, and then to a new home--then again ... maybe home is here.

UPDATE (1/12/98):  Thanks to the kindness and concern of several folks online, Khismet was brought to safety on January 4.  He is temporarily boarded at a facility that will take stallions without locking them in a stall they cannot see out of, and the owners are graciously willing to assist in handling and helping--out of love for horses. Khismet was gelded January 10, and needs exercise, hosing and medicine daily--the folks at the facility do all of that at no charge!! He is a kind, sweet, gentleman who steals the heart of all who meet him. He will remain at the boarding facility for at least a month, and then come to my home to be assessed for rideability and placeability...or maybe he'll be home--this boy just stole my heart without my knowing it.