CALAMITY - 11 year old ArabX chestnut pinto mare

[schwung]

Calamity is an 11 year old 7/8 Arab 1/8 Saddlebred (not registered) chestnut pinto mare, surrendered by her owner due to financial distress. Calamity was purchased nearly 2 years ago from Darlene Wilson (a woman currently facing neglect charges for conditions at her Arabian farm in Roy). She has not had any vet care in the last two years and she last had her feet trimmed in July of 2009. She is thin, with a bad skin fungus/rain rot due to lack of shelter, but she seems sound and clean-legged. She is supposedly green broke.

Calamity has her first vet appointment on Saturday.

[schwung]

Calamity is getting increasingly round and we are getting increasingly concerned she may be pregnant. The vet is coming on Saturday to do dentals on her, Zanadu and Goliath, but I may have her preg check her first.

[wildwoman]

Was this mare from the case with multiple animals where they walked them out to the road? (graham/eatonville-ish area?) What intact males did they have on site? eeek.

[beta]

What was the word on Calamity's possible pregnancy? I thought I read somewhere that she wasn't but I can't seem to find that now. :-)

[schwung]

Sorry...not pregnant, just very round in the belly.

[beta]

Jul 20, 2010 10:22:45 GMT -5 schwung said:

Sorry...not pregnant, just very round in the belly.

Oh that's good. :-)

[schwung]

Here's some photos taken a few months ago that I posted on Facebook but never made it over here:









Calamity has gone up for some training with Andrea. She may have been green broke at one time but she's fairly nervous about things and seems to need a lot more time and desensitizing than we have time for here.

[schwung]

Calamity is doing well in her first week of training. At first, she reverted back to her original issue of freaking out over putting a bridle on. Of course, we are not going to listen to the previous owner/neglecter's suggestion of "earing" her, so it took about 30 minutes the first time to get the bridle on in a stall. Her immediate response when you touch her mouth is to rear...its a pretty dramatic overreaction. But the next day, she was absolutely perfect, and lowered her head and opened her mouth for the bit. This is similar to what we experienced here - some days she was perfectly fine, other days she would overreact in a huge way (worming her was another ordeal most of the time). They had another minor issue over going into the wash rack. Day 1 she was fine...Day 2 she took one step in and then reared straight up, almost going over backward and then stepping back into a tack box and sending stuff flying everywhere in the barn aisle. This time, rather than baby her (as we know she had no reason to be afraid of the wash rack), she was backed out of the barn as a correction and then she walked quietly in with no fuss.

Despite these first couple of overreactions, she has already been under saddle at the walk and trot and is actually doing quite well under saddle. The trainer thinks she's going to be a nice horse once she gets into the program. She just has a few tricks she learned along the way to intimidate people that need to be unlearned.

[schwung]

SAFE suffered a tragedy today. Calamity was just starting her training session and was put on the lunge line as she had many times before. The moment she was asked to move forward, for no apparant reason, Calamity reared straight up and went over backward. She landed on her head and died instantly. It happened very fast and there was nothing that could have been done to save her. We are stunned and shocked. We are also very relieved that she was not being ridden as this could have been an even worse tragedy. The mare had shown a predisposition to rearing at the slightest provocation before (this was why she was in training). At least she went quickly and did not suffer.

[coconut]

I am stunned and saddened by this sudden loss but I know in my heart that SAFE did all that it could to give her the best opportunities possible to give her a chance at a better life.

Thank you to all who have been involved in her rehab, care and training.

RIP Calamity

[Sara]

Oh wow, what a shock. My heart goes out to Andrea and her crew as well. As stunned as I am sitting here, well, I can't even imagine how traumatic this must have been for them to witness. =(

[Kea's Crest]

Very sorry to hear. She looked like she would have been a very pretty pony. Amazing how such a big animal can die from something so simple and quick. I'm sure all those there must have been in shock. Our sympathies to those who invested time and love to help Calamity.

[trillium]

After looking up Nadia under Darlene Wilson horses, I am going to guess that Calamity was this horse,
PAINTED FROM MEMORY - HAHR*2A338752
The age and the markings seem to match and the sire's sire was a Saddlebred named Winter Sultan.

[whitney]

Clamity is Painted from memory my mother bought her from darlene wilson in 08

[Rose]

How sad to lose Calamity. My heart goes out to you all.