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Open house set Saturday for remaining rescues
Jeanie Gaudreau, left, and Krissta Rexin look at a pen of rescued horses Oct. 11 at a Sunnyside, Washington, stockyard before the horses were loaded onto trailers to be hauled to Montana. The horses had been purchased to ship out of the U.S. for slaughter, but a group of Montana horsewomen, including Gaudreau and Rexin, purchased 34 of them to re-home. The nine horses remaining to be adopted can be viewed Saturday at an open house in Clinton.
It was the pictures of two Appaloosa horses waiting in a feedlot for shipment to a slaughterhouse that motivated Michelle Donaldson to rally fellow horsewomen to save as many horses as they could from the kill pen in Washington state, and with nine of 34 saved horses still looking for a home, the friends are holding an open house to help find adopters.
"I absolutely love Appaloosas, and I found on Facebook somebody shared a really sad state of affairs with a bunch of really young horses that had gotten sold for slaughter," Donaldson said, "and the first two horses that came up were Appaloosas...
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