Scribbles the horse, bound for slaughter, gets a second chance — and an amazing reunion

[teaser]Much of the story of Scribbles and her journey from a kill pen to a reunion with her former owners boils down to chance. Excerpted from an article by Christine Loman on York Daily Record.[/teaser]

York, PA – It was late in the day, later than she usually stayed at horse sales, when Kelly Smith walked past a pen holding horses that had been sold for slaughter. Smith, the director of Omega Horse Rescue in Peach Bottom Township, noticed a brown bay mare with blood running down her leg. She and another rescuer tried to staunch the bleeding, first with napkins from a lunch counter and then with a coat someone had left nearby.

For more than 20 years, she’s rescued horses and built relationships with others at the Lancaster County horse sale, including people who buy horses for slaughter. She got permission from the buyer to treat the horse and called a vet, who sutured the leg.

By then, Smith said she wasn’t leaving the horse behind. She bought it for $360.

Like so many times before, she took photos and uploaded them to Facebook to show her followers what she was doing.

Hours later and hundreds of miles away in Harwich, Mass., Brittany Wallace, 16, was on the computer doing research. It was early in the morning on Nov. 13 and she had spent the night on the couch to be near the family dog, Kona, who was sick. Kona died at 6 that morning.

She thought about her childhood, of growing up with Kona and her horse, Scribbles.

Scribbles and Kona had joined the Wallace family in the same week when Brittany was 9 years old. The family sold the horse when Brittany was older, and later lost touch with Scribbles.

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