Author: Horse Plus Editor

The heavy equipment operators have been very busy at the shelter.  A total of 20 loads of gravel were brought in for the entry way, parking area and roads to the pens.  It generally rains a lot in TN, and without this gravel we wouldn’t be able to operate when it rains.  We would like […]

The first phase of development at our Tennessee shelter is coming to an end, and it’s so amazing what has happened!  We ran water lines, built pens, fencing, an arena, round pen, tack room, shelters, small office, and more!   The horses really love the shelters we built for them and the new pens. After […]

Walker was scheduled to go to his new home today. I had the trailer hooked up and ready to go last night so I could leave right away this morning. Walker walked right in the trailer and as I shut the door, I felt bad that this was his first ride by himself, and I […]

This blog was scheduled to be published last Friday, but due to the urgent need to pull horses from the slaughter pipeline this blog was postponed. Sunday we left the shelter and headed North.  The shelter was bright and sunny but we knew it wasn’t going to stay that way for long.  The news had […]

Did you know that we are the only open door horse welfare organization with shelters across the United States? Do you know that we help hundreds of horses every year? Our 3 shelters are busy every day caring for the horses. Lets take a look at what happened at our shelters yesterday. *** California Shelter: Stitch had […]

Saturday night I was at the Circle D Auction in the heart of Amish country in middle TN.  I’ve been to this auction several times, the first was on our exploratory trip to TN in 2014.  Back then the auction was owned by a different person who, oddly, seemed to be smitten with me and […]

Hello everyone, I want to thank you for your amazing support that allowed us to rescue 12 horses between our California and Tennessee shelters over the weekend.  I had an amazing opportunity at the TN auction, something in the 13 years I’ve been doing this, and over 4,000 horses rescued, I’ve never been able to […]

Thank you so much for donating to save lives at slaughter auctions!  This blog, written by the CA shelter manager Melissa, is about the California auction rescue, the TN shelter will have its auction rescue blog published soon. We were so excited that we were going to save horses from shipping to slaughter.  Tanya and […]

URGENT NEED: Save Slaughter Bound Horses – Help! URGENT NEED!  Help us save horses from auctions this month, your donation will allow us to pull horses out of the slaughter pipeline. Auction yards are public sales where anyone who wins the bid can buy a horse. Kill Buyers attend auctions to purchase horses to be shipped […]

Our Oklahoma Shelter has been very busy!  First we would like to update you on Sara, the orphaned foal.  She really thrived at our shelter and Shari absolutely adored her. A wonderful home was found for Sara and her adoptive family was so excited when they picked her up.  Shari was sad to see Sara […]