[theloneappy]

I am posting this for my friend.

This horse is/was in Alberta, Canada
Sometime this week my coming 3 year old palomino paint filly went missing. We have looked everywhere and asked around with no results. She is a splash overo, with a bald face and 2 blue eyes, she doesn’t look much like a palomino right now as her winter woolies were setting in. She has 3 high white socks, one low white sock, a big belly spot, and lighting strikes on her neck. She is super friendly, and about 15HH right now. Her name is Lexus, or “MilLexus” (her CPHA registration name).

I will be forwarding pictures of her to the auction marts, as I have a deep fear that she will be sold.

Please keep your eyes and ears open for any information on my girl, my cell number is 780-722-4833, my home phone number is 780-941-2131, and I can be reached on my mother or fathers cells as well, Annette (mother) 893-9710, Leonard 780-893-9711.
More pictures of her can be seen on our website.

Thank you,
Brandi

[Caterina]

you should direct your friend to netposse, its a great network for missing-stolen horses

[theloneappy]

Already have.

And she was mentioned on FHoTD.

[meljean]

She was taken for sure? Did not just get out of pasture, did not see in OP. Don't know systems in Canada, but surely would work the same.
Tell your friend to do the following, as this is what we do for missing/stolen animals.
1. Call every feed store within a 200 mile radius and fax them a description of horse.

2. Notify every horse person you can find in phone books, on net, and ask them for names of horsey people that might not be listed in phone book.

3. Notify every trailer sales place, and include the ones that might rent horse trailers too. Ask them to put up flyer.

4. Call every school in 500 mile radius, and ask them to post flyer and announce it over intercom system. Kids know everything, generally will tell it too!

5. Contact the power companies for the gas, both natural and propane, electric companies, and water companies. Call the cable companies and phone companies tool
Hand out flyers to their workmen. Stop the delivery drivers, here it would be UPS and Fed Ex, there??? Stop your mailmen too. And don't forget the trash haulers, all of these people are up and down the roads all the time, and they can be looking for your horse.

6. Put up flyers every where that they will let you. If they won't let you, ask them if they could announce it in their store meetings, and try to leave some with employees.

7. Call every church you can get a number for, and ask the pastor to announce it, and ask for prayers. Remember the more people you have looking, the easier and faster it will be to get your horse back.

8. I don't know what immigration levels are like there, but if there are a lot of Spanish speaking people, get a high school teacher to translate your flyer, same with whatever languages are spoken there beside English and (French).

9. Check with pizza and flower delivery drivers, and keep checking with the law, as just because you called and spoke with someone on Tues. doesn't mean the Wed shift saw the message.

10. Check with equivalent of state/province Agriculture Dept, and ask if names of folks in your area who are known to steal animals are open for public viewing. And carefully check them out, undercover using friends. Also answer any horse for sale ad you see on net, in paper, don't let them know your horse is missing. Just needing a Paint/colored horse.

11. Check with every vet/farrier/tack store in 200 miles. Post flyers, and ask them to look.

12. Contact everyone who has missing animals in a 500 mile radius of where you are, and take their info, and give them yours, as they may not run across their horse, but dog gone sure may find yours.

13. Contact your real estate people who list homes in area, ask them to keep eyes open, down here, real estate agents go everywhere and see all kinds of things, so they might find horse.

14. At all times keep a copy of pictures/reg papers/Coggins on your person, not originals, but copies that can be clearly seen. You may run across your horse at a gas station, and the law might be more willing to detain the thieves if you have papers to back up your claim.

15. Contact the gas stations too. Ask if anyone bought gas with a trailer/horse.

16. Do not give up, the great TB mare Fanfreluche, not sure of spelling, sorry, (and had a filly that went back to her too), was stolen in night in Kentucky. Was in foal, and known to be a witch on wheels. Somehow she got away from scum, and knowing mares rep not surprising to grooms/handlers/ and ended up at farm owned by two elderly people and was living with their pony and donkey. She had just shown up miles away from her farm, and they took her in. They fed her, made a big pet out of her, and let grandkids ride her around. Didn't know who she was, they had tried to find owners, but no one claimed her, and they did not move in the Kentucky TB horse circles. It wasn't until a farrier was trimming her, and suggested she was TB that they looked in her mouth and saw the tattoo. True story. Got her back to her home and had a colt, can't remember what it's name was, famous though.

17. Every place you go, to eat, buy groceries, anywhere, stop people and ask for help.

18. Contact the media, newspapers, TV, radio, nothing galvanizes people more than when they hear of animals being stolen, or people hurting over their missing friends.
The Holiday season is coming up, and media would likely be interested in doing stories.

19. If you can, also contact all of the above as far away as your phone can call. The more people who are looking the better.

20. And this is an odd one, and not sure about horses, but possibly true for them too, if an animal takes off from home, 9 times out of 10 they will go to the right. Don't know why, but proven time and again.

Good luck, and I will keep my eyes peeled.
Hope this helps.

[theloneappy]

Yeah I'm not sure how it works in Canada either. I was just posting this for my friend. No way she got out of the pasture on her own.

I will pass all that stuff on to Brandi. I sure hope she finds Lexus soon.

[Bar N K]

Thought I'd update as posted on my facebook notification this afternoon:

"My Friends horse is found. She got out /someone let her out and the A. Hole Neighbour called the brand inspector to pick her up fully knowing it was her horse. She is on her way home now from the Tolfield Auction!!!"

Quick dump and run backfired....Asshat...

[Bar N K]

Excellent post Meljean. Can I post this on my website?? Pleaseeee...lol

[theloneappy]

Thanks for posting that Bar N K. Brandi hadn't updated me yet.

[theloneappy]

This was on The owner's page -

Lexus is finally home! Woohoo!! Some knicks and cuts from someones stallion, but otherwise seemingly unharmed. Just wish someone hadn't let her out, and that the neighbour wasn't so malicious...