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No. What did you do?" I started explaining about the auction and mentioned the ponies and I saw him roll his eyes and shake his head.

"Do we know anyone that would keep a pony for us?" I laughingly asked. He just laughed back and said, " I have no idea. Do we?"

I proceeded to tell him the story of this fiasco and found him quite supportive saying he would have done the same thing.

We now sat together, as two heads are better than one, and planned out our strategy. First we would call a couple people we knew that lived on farms and see if they would board him for a bit. That idea brought forth one offer but the drive would be so long it might be cheaper to find a place that offered this service.

After searching the phone book we found one that sounded nice. We called him, told him the story, and set up a time to go pick up this pony.

Once arriving at the auction site, the elderly man loaded him up. He mentioned the pony was foundered. I said, "What does that mean?"

He replied, He has probably overfed on grain, or even drank too much water while overheated. That is the cause of those hooves you see. I then learned this pony would need some special care. He offered to put us in contact with the people we would need.

On the way there we named the pony, "Prince." All three of us were excited to be able to take this pony to safety and begin an adventure together. Once at the stables we found lots to learn. We had to learn about what to feed him, where to buy it, how to keep the stable clean, brushing the pony and much more.

A man trimmed his hooves and before long the pony seemed to be quite happy in his new surroundings. As soon as our truck would pull up the drive he would flip his head around, whinny and come running up the corral to the barn. My son had a great time with him and we made wonderful memories from this experience. It brought forth months of pleasure.

One day a lady that visited the stables learned we were moving and had to get rid of the pony. She bought him taking him to her ranch to live out the rest of his life. We were all sad to see him go, but we could no longer keep him. To see him have a happy ending was the best part of all.

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