The Call

Looking Back - Part 3

​LOOKING BACK - Part 3
Onward to NH...In 2010 we bought a little house with beautiful views, in a little town. Before we had even unpacked we got a call from a woman in Michigan who owned and raised Newfoundland Ponies. I had just joined the pony society and she had found us that way. We had a lovely chat.
I learned that her husband was from Newfoundland. They hauled their ponies themselves from Canada to the USA. Cindy Mehaney told me many things about the pony, but also something I was not prepared to hear - that in order to save the breed, we must breed our registered mares. On top of that, Fiddler's Green Stables was the only known breeder of registered Newfoundland Ponies in the USA. Seriously? It was then I learned just how endangered they were. But BREED?? I had never even bred a guppy before!
We stayed in touch and became friends. It wasn't long before we were a small part of the small Nfld Pony Facebook community. But I never forgot what Cindy told me about breeding...
We met at an important intersection along the pony path, picking the road to Extinction or the one to Survival. Had Cindy Mehaney not reached out, the path I would have chosen would have been the one to Extinction, simply because I did not know...
Cindy Mehaney, you are a true steward of this breed. And a true friend.

​Pictured top to bottom at Fiddlers Green Stable: "Porch Ponies". Dunworkin Shandy Chapman with newborn colt Jiggs. Foundation stallion Champion K.