ANNA 
Foaled Approximately 1974
14 hand Brown/Black Morgan(?) mare

  Anna and her dear friend Tango on their third day at TGC. You can see how thin she is, although much better than Tango. She is scruffy, thin, collapsed on her hind pasterns and very vocal in her objections when ANY horse approaches them. But she eats, steadily, and seems to prefer her grass in the field to the senior feed and pellets she gets in the stall; and she's very approachable, and biddable when asked to do anything at all. Unlike Tango, she will not look directly into my eyes. I don't think she's timid, as much as resigned and unwilling to connect - this little mare has endured, but that's all.

  This is Anna in September of 2006 when Nicole and her family rescued her. She looks a lot better there - after summer.  The change itself probably caused some of her weight drop, as well as the bitter cold weather she's been dealing with.

On February 4, I got Laurie Henkel out to look at Anna and Tango, and she was able to get a very satisfactory snap out of Anna neck - for the first time since Anna has been here, she would drop her head comfortably.  She's also become much more insistent on joining the herd, where for her first few weeks she looked for places to hang where she could avoid the group.  I think we will see this mare looking very well in the next few months, as she gains weight, sheds out her dusty frazzled winter coat and relaxes even more.  Laurie found some things out in Anna's back end too, but she was too sensitive to get it all this trip; hopefully Laurie will be able to visit in the next month and get the rest.