A 5- or 6-week-old filly torn from her mother at a South Dakota horse auction led to a desperate rescue, by some good horse people, and a subsequent reunion worthy of a fairy tale ending.
All seemed well, initially, when the mare and female baby horse, Lizzie, were sold together at Kramer’s Livestock auction on Sept. 10.
The seller didn’t know that the buyer of the pair worked for Stroud Kill Pen in Oklahoma, recalled Tiffany Ring, director of Gentle Spirit Horses Rescue.
As the buyer was loading up his horses, he commented about not wanting the foal, and how she was going to “just get trampled and be dead in 100 miles anyway,” Ring stated in a post on Gentle Spirit’s Facebook page. The mother, a mustang, was just going to slaughter anyway….