The New Journey..........a Trade??.........

The initial series Wrapping Up a Difficult Summer that led to this series.

Part One

While I certainly had hoped that BG would respond to that last email so I could get more of his perspective for my case, I really didn't expect it. I knew they probably thought they were sitting there with an ace in the hole having those signed papers. I figured it wouldn't be until they learned I was now the one with the ace in the hole that I would hear anything from BG or WF.

I suspect had the papers transferred as they expected, they just would have kept the horse and ignored me thinking I would go away. Even if I hadn't been able to correct the error I'd made in prematurely signing the papers, I probably would have used everything I had to try to correct this situation but we'll never know for sure.

I sent that email on January 23 of last year. It was sometime in February when I got a call on my cell phone from WF. I let it go to voicemail because I was way too angry to have a conversation with her and I had Dave return her phone call.

In between these two events I had been talking about the situation to MD and GD. I wanted them to know this conflict might cause an issue for them and they should probably be looking for a place to move their horses.

MD and GD had known all along that BG and WF had kept the signed papers they were supposed to have returned to me. They were not privy to the information that I could stop the transfer by cancelling the original paperwork. I had kept that information to myself.

Now that I had cancelled the papers, I wanted them to be prepared for any fallout that came their way so I let them know what I had done. I also showed them the email I'd received from BG with all of jos claims of charges. They even agreed that he didn't even charge his clients for some of those services and that they were aware of the many days that horses were not worked. They led me to believe they agreed with me that BG still owed a considerable amount of money on this horse.

You'd think all that information would have been enough for them to want to distance themselves from the situation. Imagine my surprise to hear MD say that they weren't going to get involved. While she said they would testify for me if it came to that, they thought they'd be just fine where they were.

It was hard for me to understand why MD and GD would want to do business with someone who operates like BG and WF let alone someone who was pretty much trying to steal a horse from me. I would never support anyone's business who was taking advantage of someone in my family but that was the position they took.

While I didn't like it, it is her life and she gets to live it like she chooses. I do not try to pressure my children into living their lives on my terms so I just left it at that but it really did make things more difficult.

It was obvious to me if WF and BG wanted to "talk" that they must know the papers they had tried to negotiate with the registry were not good. I assumed that they had heard from the registry they would need the duplicates to complete a transfer I was a little bit surprised that the had their answer this quickly. AHA is not known for such a speedy response concerning issues of any kind but it was obvious something had changed if they wanted to talk.

When Dave returned WF's phone call, he found she wanted a meeting to sit down and discuss the situation. I think it was at this first encounter that WF told Dave they would return Storm to me if I returned the boxer puppy that had been part of that payment to them.

A little back history here, they knew when I got this dog that I always chain my dogs outside when we're working because we live within 500 feet of the most dangerous highway in the state and our pasture fencing is not going to keep a dog in. I even spoke to BG about this fact when I signed that purchase agreement on the puppy and saw a reference to keeping a dog "chained". His response was not to worry that was not the kind of "chained" they meant. It was a dog living on a chain that was the issue. Not one put on a chain from time to time to keep it safe.

This is actually the second boxer I have gotten through WF and that first one was chained exactly the same way. Now WF was saying they could really take the dog back anyway because I was keeping the dog on a chain. The implication was they were going to get the dog one way or the other, so I might as well trade for the horse. Dave told WF he didn't think I would agree to such a trade but he'd talk to me and let her know.

Before Dave had his meeting with WF I had instructed him to tell her we needed a detailed accounting of the work that BG. When WF made the offer to exchange Storm for my boxer, he didn't think to ask her about an accounting so that part was not done.

Dave called me right after he left the meeting with WF and he was furious. I doubt she had seen his reaction because he told me it didn't really hit him until he was inside his car. He might have been at the other end of a phone line but I swear I could smell the smoke. Dave was hot..........burning hot. No one was gonna take his dog.

By the time he arrived home, I was probably as hot as Dave. I don't know about you, but for me, my pets are important to me, just like my horses. I wasn't going to give up my dog, that had become part of our family, because BG hadn't fulfilled his contract with me. That didn't make any sense to me at all.

I have a pretty good sense of the law so I knew what they were asking was out of line. The way I saw it was this contract on the horse was no different than a contract on a home, car, truck , boat, etc. If you quit making your payments, you lose the asset and forfeit any right to money paid.

I also believed that while the puppy may have been a partial payment on the horse, the purchase agreement for that puppy really had no bearing on the contract of the horse. They are two different agreements and any settlement would have to be made independently.

The fact they were trying to get this horse for a fraction of what he was worth had made me made. Now the fact they'd tried to manipulate the situation by saying they could take my dog because she spends some time on a chain to keep her safe just made me all the madder.

By this time I'd have enough of these two and I was not about to let them walk all over me. I was not giving up my dog AND I wasn't going to quit until the contract with the horse was made right.

If BG and WF thought they were going to manipulate me into some form of compliance to their wishes, they had better think again and they better be smart and quit playing games. All they were doing was making me angrier and angrier and with that anger came the motivation I needed to keep me focused getting justice. I didn't know how I was going to do it but I was going to make them accountable.

If a dragon had been unleashed over the email with the bogus claims of how the horse had been paid, I don't know what would appropriately describe this anger I now felt. All I can say is it was growing at a rate that should have set off the fire alarms in my house.

To be continued.................

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