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Maxi gets a new home on the Point

“Maxi is paid for. I think there are a lot of angels in this world who look after little animals and I’m thankful there are so many here on the Point.”

Mary Edgely is overwhelmed at the community response to her call for donations to help her buy a miniature colt and prevent her from returning it to a neglectful home. At an August 18 carwash she was able to raise $1,500 and other community donors came forward after the carwash to donate the additional $1,500 to buy Maxi.

Edgley had been looking for a horse friend to keep her riding horse company when she found a breeder of miniature horses who would give her two old brood mares rather than move them.

One of the mares was pregnant and the breeder said the old mares were free but she wanted the baby back when it was born. “When the mares arrived at my place I realized they were in terrible condition,” Edgely said, malnourished, dirty and sick. When baby Maxi was born, they didn’t want her to return to the same facility. “How do you send a baby back to a home like that?” she asked.

After some negotiation Edgely got the breeder to agree to sell her the little horse for $3,000 and some local children suggested the car wash idea to help raise the funds. Over a dozen kids and their parents volunteered to wash cars.

“The thing I took from this is that there’s no community like this one, where people will turn out like that to help a little horse,” Edgely said. “Some woman just walked up and gave me $100 and she didn’t even want to get her car washed because the line was too long.”