ShreddedOakAviary
New member
- Jul 13, 2011
- 591
- 5
- Parrots
- M2's, U2's, G2's, RB2's, VOS, RLA's, BFA's, DYHA's, Dusky Pionus, Blue and Green Quakers, Meyers Parrots, VOS, GW Macaw's, Harlequin Macaws, Tiels, YNA, TAG's, CAG's, Blue Crown Conures, Red sided Ecl
I was just watching my mustang play with our friesian, and it got me thinking....
They play carefree as equals, and from looking at them together one would never know how different their beginnings in life really are.
To be born a friesian is almost a guarantee that you will be adored, admired, and envied everywhere you go. She was produced by a man that not only loved his horses, but ensured that his rare breeding stock was well cared for, perfectly bred, and carried a price tag equal to their amazing quality. Seze has never missed a meal and never wanted for anything.
Saukura on the other hand was a baby born on a wild lot of captive mustang who were starving from the beginning. Her birth was not acknowledged by a single human being (although she was captively born, the man had 200 starving mustangs on his ranch). Hers is a story of want from birth. Her sire unknown, and her dam died shortly after birthing her this orphan foal barely scraped by her first year. Times got tougher and she watched as her playmates and pasture buddies died of starvation, she wasfound stepping over the bodies of her fellow horses. She was unwanted and hungry.... When I adopted her, she was literally skin, fur, and bone.... She was weak and scared. Her back was nothing but a huge open hairless mess of infection and rain rot...
I continue to watch both horses play, Saukura is fat, happy, and beautiful.... I realize that while some people would scowl at a "trash horse mustang", that she is just as beautiful as Seze and just as loved.
They play carefree as equals, and from looking at them together one would never know how different their beginnings in life really are.
To be born a friesian is almost a guarantee that you will be adored, admired, and envied everywhere you go. She was produced by a man that not only loved his horses, but ensured that his rare breeding stock was well cared for, perfectly bred, and carried a price tag equal to their amazing quality. Seze has never missed a meal and never wanted for anything.
Saukura on the other hand was a baby born on a wild lot of captive mustang who were starving from the beginning. Her birth was not acknowledged by a single human being (although she was captively born, the man had 200 starving mustangs on his ranch). Hers is a story of want from birth. Her sire unknown, and her dam died shortly after birthing her this orphan foal barely scraped by her first year. Times got tougher and she watched as her playmates and pasture buddies died of starvation, she wasfound stepping over the bodies of her fellow horses. She was unwanted and hungry.... When I adopted her, she was literally skin, fur, and bone.... She was weak and scared. Her back was nothing but a huge open hairless mess of infection and rain rot...
I continue to watch both horses play, Saukura is fat, happy, and beautiful.... I realize that while some people would scowl at a "trash horse mustang", that she is just as beautiful as Seze and just as loved.
