We met Winchester at an auction in August during the Horse Rescue Heroes filming. She was up to weight and the kill buyers were bidding on her, they wanted to load her up on their slaughter truck and ship her to Mexico. To them he was only dollars on hooves but to us she was a precious horse that we knew we had to save. When a horse is up to weight at the auction, multiple kill buyer start bidding all trying to purchase the horse but only one will win the bid. Sometimes when kill buyers see us bidding on horses they will bid on the horses out of spite trying to make us pay more for horses than the actual slaughter price. This happens at almost every auction. We try to save every horse we can that is in the slaughter price range. We rescued Winchester and 52 other horses in August from the auction. Winchester seemed sad and depressed, with his head hung low.
After we rescue the horses we post each one of them up on our Facebook page and asked for name suggestions. We receive a large amount of inquiries about adoption from these posts as well. The horses must go through quarantine before being cleared for adoption. Many times adopters follow them during this process and they are adopted as soon as they come out of quarantine and receive their trainer evaluation. We are very happy that Winchester was adopted by a very wonderful lady who is going to give her a great home.
It makes our heartache when we think about what would have happened to Winchester if we had not rescued her and all the other horses we saved from the auction that month. October 22 we will be going to an auction to save more horses just like Winchester, these horses have no hope without us. Will you help us save them? Give Now!
