Oscar Arrives

The same nice man turned up a few weeks later with the wagon of horses from France. There was ours and a couple of little Shetlands left to be delivered. He brought our new Percheron down the ramp and Oscar had arrived to join Angela’s growing herd of rescued animals.
Where we had thought how massive Pilgrim was, we were surprised how small Oscar was. He was only about 15h at the most and very, very nervous. When we got the papers we realised why. He was only 18 months old and not actually a registered Percheron. You do actually get paperwork, in French naturally, with the rescued horses. So sad really. Pilgrim had been fully vaccinated and everything and then his owner had suddenly decided that he was not good enough and signed the form to send him for meat “for human consumption”. Oscar however must have been bred for meat because although he had been microchipped, he was listed as unknown origin. Angela seems to think that he is part Bretton as the French used this type of horse a lot for meat. There is some Percheron in him as he does look a little like Pilgrim, just seems to have short legs, poor little chap. It will be hard work for him to keep up with the other two!