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BabaLooey was a sad, stunted, malnourished little ragamuffin feral colt covered in lice, ticks, and skin disease upon arrival in March of 2024 after we collected him as a free roaming horse in the mountains. He was carefully and meticulously brought back to health with a refeeding plan, delousing, deworming, lots of TLC. He has been started on handling and is now catchable in a small pasture, leads, has had his first trim from the farrier, has been castrated, vaccinated and microchipped. He still has plenty of filling out, straightening up, and growing to do but this guy will stay fairly small.
He's currently around 11.1 hands tall and still growing as a yearling but his mother looked to be no taller than 13 hands (she was a free-roaming horse we were not authorized to collect) so we expect him to top out no taller than between 12 and 13 hands. BabaLooey can still be startled by large and fast movements but if you go slow and kind he would love to be your friend. He is a sweet fella and doesnt seem to have a mean bone in his body. This pint-sized pal is currently fostered at Boys & Girls Haven serving as an unmounted therapy and handling lesson horse for at-risk and disadvantaged foster children in that program. We are told he's a natural and a star, and has already participated in sessions helping supervised children learn how to handle horses while boosting their confidence and working on other life skills. Everybody loves BabaLooey, and we've heard he's a ham about playing in the water hose as well. BabaLooey would love a home where he can have time to grow and develop, continue his handling lessons, and could eventually be a plucky little child's pony when he's old enough after adequate training. Because most of the horses from BabaLooey's collection area are gaited, there is a possibility that he will be gaited under saddle. He has been started on ground driving with a tiny, light synthetic saddle and pony bridle. He caught on quickly and our trainer thinks he has great potential to possibly make a cart pony as well. Guest comments upon seeing him in person range from "What is that thing?" to "He's adorable", so you can decide for yourself. KHS prefers to adopt young horses to homes with experience handling and teaching youngsters proper behavior and manners, or at least a home that plans to work with a trusted trainer to keep his behavior following the current pleasant trajectory, for his wellbeing and his future. If you are interested in having a one-of-a-kind pocket-sized genuine former feral mountain pony as your farm mascot and friend, please apply to adopt little BabaLooey! |