Author: Horse Plus Editor

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 […]

Our first event in Wisconsin happened on October 16th. We were asked to do a 1-Day Open Door Shelter in Wisconsin after a group of rescuers saw the 1-Day Open Door Shelters we had done in Oklahoma.  After working on all the logistics of operating a one-day open door shelter in the Wisconsin area the […]

It is with a sad and heavy heart I wright you to tell you that Phoenix is no longer with us. Many of you have known Phoenix since we rescued him in 2009.  He was the most emaciated horse that we have ever rescued that lived through his starvation. His body had shut down so much […]

   I know the California blogs have not been as regular as they should be and I do apologize for that.   I want to share with you what has been happening to me personally.  My life was turned upside down yet again just a few short weeks ago.  I received a call no one ever […]

Dream’s big day had finally arrived to have his stacks removed.  We rescued Dream (Skywalks Magical Dream) in August from an auction with 5″ stacks on his front hooves.  He had scars and open wounds on his pasterns from what we believe was soring.  To read his rescue story, click here.  We have been working hard […]

Tawnee headed out to rescue a little miniature horse.  An Amish family called our TN shelter about a miniature horse they could no longer keep.  They were hoping we could take him otherwise they were going to have to kill him.  We know from experience that this would not have been humane euthanasia by a […]