It was a long day for a lot of good people--Allen Landes, Tina Murray of Harmony Hill, an equine rescue that is taking the mare, and tireless Stephanie Weber, who works as a humane investigator for Dutchess County SPCA but who today served as loader and hauler of three animals deserving of happiness. Meanwhile, back at CAS, we scheduled veterinarian Heather O'Leary and asked her to bring her x-ray machine. Our fear is that in Noah, the older boy, the pastern and coffin bones in the lower leg and hoof might be malformed.

They're thin, they're encrusted with manure, their hooves are grotesquely deformed, but boy are Noah and Cas, the two stallions, bright eyed.

Welcome, boys. We'll do the best we can for you. Be assured of that.