June 3, 1980 - July 15,2006

 

Sadly we had no choice but to put this wonderful mare to sleep.

She had suffered a stroke and numerous seizures until the second stroke paralyzed her on her right side.

She did not however, go to the Rainbow Bridge alone my brother David and I were with her with our hands on her until she left us.

This mare's death has left our family deeply sadden as she had been a part of our family for 22 of her 26 years. I had known her for 25 of them.

When she was laid to rest on our farm, the butterflies took her home.

Nothing had stirred as her grave was being made, but the butterflies by at least a hundred carried her home.

 

For a horse they said wasn't worth more than a bullet to the head, this mare came to be a great riding horse, traffic trained and one heck of a gaming horse!

There will never be another like this wonderful mare who now has joined her lost filly from 2004 Jasmine.

 

Ginger was  a mother to everything in her pasture from unwanted horses, to her pasture mates who were her adopted daughters to even an escaped calf.

 

Rest my dear for I could not think of another horse who deserves it more!

 

Mom....