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Danny
No one was bidding on the small, nearly black gelding, and Susan Sheridan knew what that would mean. The diminutive two-year-old with the frightened eyes would be picked off the auction block dirt cheap by a "kill" buyer and loaded onto the van in the back of the building, waiting in the shadows to take a group of hapless horses to slaughter in Canada.
Susan knew she couldn’t let that happen. So on Thursday, October 15th, she raised her hand, and within a minute, signed the ticket that bought young Danny, a draft cross with a striking white blaze, for just $50. It will take much more than that to restore him to shining health. The sweet gelding will need worming and farrier care and months of supportive nutrition before he will begin to be the horse he was born to become. Under the patient attention of Susan and her tireless crew, Danny will thrive, and eventually find a good home. But there are so many more like him who won't be so lucky.
Susan Sheridan is the President of Bay State Equine Rescue, a nonprofit group of dedicated volunteers based in Oakham, Massachusetts who work with very little money, but a lot of persistence and passion, to save horses in dire need. And the Rescue’s phones have been buzzing during the last year, with calls from people who can no longer afford to feed their horses, or who just don’t want to. The Rescue would love to take them all, but their limited resources can stretch only so far.
They think that Danny’s winning personality will make him a good candidate for adoption. And while they can’t rush him, they hope that Danny’s adoption day will come soon, so Susan can make another trip out to Agawam and save one more horse from a van ride to oblivion.
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