The Horses of Proud Spirit | Melanie Sue Bowles

The Horses of Proud Spirit | Melanie Sue Bowles | A great read

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	The Horses of Proud Spirit Melanie Sue Bowles Pineapple Press (FL), 2003 - 208 pages average customer review:based on 56 reviews view larger image
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The Horses of Proud Spirit

A wonderful and inspirational book, for anyone who truely loves animals, and appreciates all the love that they have to offer to everyone around them if only given the chance. I read the book in only a few sittings and found it really hard to put down. Along with the heart wrenching stories of how each horse made it's way to Proud Spirit, Melanie Bowles also chronicles how she went from being very inexperienced with horses to being able to communicate with them and earn their trust, just by simply learning from them, and not by listening to the "experienced" people around her. It is truly an inspiration, and a must read for anyone working with animals.

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A great read

This was a great read, these people are the most caring people I have come across, their love for these horses is massive. I am looking forward to the next book.

A Special Book by a Special Person

The Horses of Proud Spirit is really three stories in one. First, it's Melanie Sue Bowles' story as she tells us about her experiences with some of the first horses who came to live at Proud Spirit. We follow Melanie's progress from pure novice to knowledgeable caregiver, and she tells of her experiences just as if we were sitting on a porch, swapping horse stories with friends who are nonjudgmental because at one time or another in the course of our own learning process, we've been in Melanie's shoes. Melanie becomes our friend on the very first page of The Horses of Proud Spirit, and that's because she has the ability to make us feel her horror and disgust at what humans do to horses, whether out of ignorance or pure malice.
In what I consider the second story within the story, Melanie tells us the tale of each horse, unfolding the sequence of events in her comfortable, down-to-earth manner, even when the events are tragic. We rejoice with her when the outcome is good and weep with her when a horse is lost.
The third story is ours, the reader's, because if we've been insulated from the terrible things humans do to horses, Melanie opens our eyes to reality, so perhaps, if faced with signs of abuse, we will be quicker to take action. For those of us having cared for an abused horse (and hopefully, never as many as Mel and her husband, Jim) we share our understanding of what she goes through with each horse.
Depending upon whether you're new to horses or an old-timer, you'll either learn what's right when it comes to being responsible for the care of a horse, or, like what happened with me, Melanie's story brought back warm comforting memories of horses I've known in my lifetime.
You will enjoy The Horses of Proud Spirit and the way in which Melanie tells her story. You will turn the last page and wish she would tell you more. You will also use up one or more boxes of tissues by the time you close the back cover. And, you will never again take your horses for granted.

Laurie Loveman, Author
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Great book!

I am involved with a horse rescue here in Michigan & bought the book after seeing the tv show about Proud Spirit on PBS. I can identify fully with this book - I was an inexperienced horse person & was thrilled to find out that the author was too when she started, and is from Michigan herself! The book is an easy read & will stir up emotional reactions from any animal lover. I have cried while reading this book several times - please keep in mind that I do horse rescue, so I've witnessed some of these things firsthand. The book is so well written in my opinion that you feel like you're there.

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Great book for animal lovers

I thought this book was really good, especially for people who love horses. The stories in each chapter are very interesting and different from each other, so you don't leave off on a chapter wondering what will happen next.

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