Josephine's Story:
Josephine is a BLM Mustang Mare born in 2013 and rounded up from Paisley Desert, Oregon. When she arrived at the kill pen, she had coming two year old filly at her side! Someone purchased the filly, and left Josephine in the kill pen with a set date to ship to slaughter!!
Luckily, thanks to our incredible donors, we were able to save her from shipping to slaughter and offer her sanctuary for life instead. This beautiful girl is the definition of a big bold beautiful bay mare and we simply adore her.
Paisley Desert horses are known for being easy going and very willing to connect with humans, so we were very surprised to find her in the kill pen! It just goes to show that even horses from more famous Herd Management Areas STILL end up in bad situations, their HMA of origin does nothing to prevent them from ending up in the slaughter pipeline.
Josephine has big trusting eyes- though it certainly seems she has been treated badly by humans since she looks like she wants to connect but something always holds her back from taking any steps forward towards a person! We ope that with time she will feel far more comfortable.
Watching her RUN when we released her and her three mare friends- Dorothy, Frances, and Hazel- was an absolute pleasure. She tossed her head around and playfully jumped in the air kicking up her front hooves like a youngster! Pure joy.
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