Sponsors: Paper Pleasure Co- 12/10-12/1, 2008 Juli Thorson- November 2008 Donnelly Show Horses- 10/7-11/7, 2008 The Yellow Mare- 9/23-10/7, 2008

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SHILOH SANCTUARY HORSE

8/25/09 Keller isdoing great, staying fat and happy with her pals, Idaho and GG. She was treated for some Harbonema on her nose for a while, but it is almost all healed up. She hated getting her medication on the sore!

2/24/09 Keller has entered Shiloh's Sanctuary where she will live out her life with her friends.

2/6/09 Keller is doing great with her friends GG and Idaho. She is nice and fat and enjoys grooming and spoiling by our volunteers.

9/25/08 Keller has moved into the barn where she can be in the center of the daily activity at the rescue. She was lonely up front, so we moved her where she can hear everything that is going on. She seems much happier. We are still treating her eyes, which have been sore.

Arrived at Shiloh on 9/14/08

This is a very sweet and quiet Appaloosa mare who is blind.

Her story is a very sad one- she had been brought to a auction in Idaho, but nobody bid on her and she was no-saled. Her owner never showed back up to claim her from the auction yard and she had nowhere to go. Imagine how stressful it must have been for her to be at that sale yard, with an auction going on around her, without being able to see anything...

Some very concerned horse lovers heard her story and got together to try to help her. Mikey, a friend of Shiloh, stepped up and offered to drive all the way up to Idaho from her home in AZ to pick her up, and Shiloh offered her a home to come to. Huge thanks to Mikey for picking her up and driving her all the way to Shiloh and Huge Thanks to Juli Thornson and her blog followers who supported Keller all the way!

Mikey, who is also a Farrier, trimmed her badly overgrown hooves at the yard and loaded her up. After a very long drive, they arrived at Shiloh on Sunday afternoon.

We have named this mare "Keller" after Helen Keller, who found a way to live an incredible life even without the gift of sight.

Keller is currently in the Isolation area, but will eventually be moved into a larger corral or small pasture where she can make some new friends and begin to enjoy her life.