May 5, 2008

A Note from One of Our Supporters!

We thought we'd share a message from one of the many courageous folks who take on the huge responsibility of adopting a mustang. Carol is from Oakham, Massachusetts and has offered to spread the word on the East Coast for the Let 'em Run Foundation. The pictures on the left are her horses.

-----Original Message-----
From: carol poole
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 10:10 PM
To: bob@lacyjdalton.com
Subject: spreading the word

Hello,

My name is Carol Poole and I live in Massachusetts. I have adopted a mustang from the blm because I can't bear the thought of them being shipped to Mexico due to the 3 strikes and your out law of late 2005. I would like to help promote your cause here in Massachusetts and I am asking for your permission to use your logo and organization name by painting it on our horse trailer so that when my daughter is showing her horse at horse shows we can direct folks to your website and "spread the word". If you would like us to distribute leaflets or other info we would be glad to do that also.

Sincerely,

Carol Poole

---- Bob Retzer <bob@lacyjdalton.com wrote:

Carol,

You most certainly can have permission to use our logo and organization name on your trailer. Thanks for your support of our efforts to save the wild horses and we personally thank you for adopting a mustang.

My wife, Betty has five of them - Spirit, Suzi, Lucky, Snoopy and Snickers - so I can attest to the devotion it takes to take on such a responsibility. You can see our five here and Betty's dedication to the first one she adopted, Lucky.

I spoke with your daughter a few minutes ago to let her know that, due to a" Senior Moment", I sent you your Wild Horse Crossing CD on Thursday, then sent another today!! Feel free to share the additional copy with a friend - its on the house!

Best regards,

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: carol poole
Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2008 9:35 PM
To: Bob Retzer
Subject: RE: spreading the word

Hello Bob,

Thank you so much for taking the time to call and let us know that the c.d. was on it's way. When my daughter told me you had sent another c.d. I told her I would pay for the second one since it is for such a great cause. I did receive the first one yesterday (Saturday) which was very fast! I have played it over and over already.

Your Mustangs are beautiful! How "lucky" they are to have such nice people to take care of them.

Thank you for allowing us to use the name and logo on our trailer. We are in constant touch with lots of horse owners in our little neck of the woods and I would love to try to do whatever I can to help Let 'em Run.

Our local farm supply store (Klem's) in the next town over is holding an equine day in a couple of weeks and vendors can rent a table and I was thinking that maybe my daughter and I could go and distribute information about Let 'em Run and the plight of the Mustang in general.

I would give anything to not have had to adopt Sierra (our Mustang), they belong in the wild with their own kind and their own families. Sierra came from the Ridgecrest Holding Facility in California in August 2007. The BLM couldn't tell us much about her other than she was probably captured in California/Nevada. She was just turning 1 yr. old when we got her. We love her dearly and want to use her to educate others about what is happening to these majestic animals. We have no horse training background but have read everything about mustangs that we can get our hands on.

After only two and half months we were able to have a "sleepover" with her in the barn and she decided to come in every night after that (just in time before the dreaded winter).

Every morning I take Sierra from her stall, then we walk to the entrance/exit of the barn where she comes to a full halt and looks around for a few seconds trying to decide if she really wants to go out there, while she looks all around I look directly into her eye and say "trust me" and she immediately walks on all the way to her pen.

We also have 3 other horses, all of them are rescues of one sort or another.

We have a crazy Kentucky thoroughbred named Patrick who was half starved when we found him at a dealers place in upstate New York, we have an old ranch horse named Stitch who came from North Dakota and was on his way to Illinois for slaughter after being impaled on a post at the livestock auction here in Massachusetts and a beautiful paint mare named Almosta who came here from Idaho with a traveling wild west show that auctions off all their horses after the show, when we saw who was trying to buy her we jumped right in and we took her home. I have enclosed pictures of them.

I emailed your Governor, Senators and Department of Agriculture after my first visit to the Let 'em Run website last week. Would a petition help your efforts?

Thanks again and best wishes,

Carol