"Rules were fairly simple, behave, don't try to get away, don't make a sound, take everything that comes your way obediently, and you don't get beat as badly. Still got beat, just not as bad. They broke my spirit pretty quick. Starved me. Trained me to be a cart horse, making it easier for them to hurt me, you do not want to have a harness left on you for long, they never took it off. Another family found me, took me in, helped me, then had to sell me. The 3rd group was worse than the first. Eventually, Julie found me. Be grateful she found you first, that you didn't fall victim to what happened to me"