Next Tuesday (11/21/17) in Tennessee an auction will be auctioning off horses and most of the horses will be sold for slaughter. 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 to slaughter, auctions are the beginning of the […]
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New Arrivals, Farrier Visit, Adoption Update and More
The day started as our team headed off to get the new arrivals that would be coming in. The owners called and asked that we take the horses as they knew they wouldn’t be able to feed them through the winter. With heavy and sad hearts they knew they had to let them go. Dance was […]
Free 1-Day Open Door Shelter for Horse Coming to Arizona!
Our next 1-Day Open Door Shelter is just a few weeks away, on December 3rd at WestWorld in Scottsdale, AZ. This is a very lovely venue, but they do require that all horses on the property have a current Coggins dated within the last 12 months. They also require any out of state horses have a […]
New staff member, adoptions and more
We are excited to announce that we have a new staff member! Sarah has been a volunteer for over two years. She has gone out on rescue missions to help document abuse, auction rescues, and a whole lot more. She has been a great help to our organization over the last years and we are […]
Wisconsin One Day Open Door Shelter Report
October 22nd found our team in Neillsville, Wisconsin for a One Day Open Door Shelter. This was not our first time to Wisconsin we had been there a year prior. Doing a One Day Open Door Shelter where 56 horses were surrendered. If you missed that blog, click here. We were expecting a lot of horses […]
Meet All the Horses Saved from the Auction!
We apologize for the delay in getting this auction blog out. The auction happened right before the Wisconsin 1-Day Open Door Shelter, and Tawnee didn’t have time to get the blog together before heading out. When we arrived at the auction yard the morning after the auction, the horses were all wide-eyed, and curious about […]
20 Horses Saved Tonight!!
There were a total of 116 horses at the auction tonight. We raised enough funds to rescue 18, but there were so many horses we couldn’t say no to. We ended up saving 20 horses, and had to leave the auction early because we didn’t have any more funds to responsibly rescue and care for […]
Let’s Save Some Horses! We are at the auction right now!
We are at the auction right now, and we need your help to save lives! Thanks to the outpouring of support we can currently rescue and shelter 16 horses, but have room to rescue more. There are approximately 100horses at the auction right now. There are many kill buyers and their triple big trailers waiting to load […]
In Memory of Pegasus
Many of you may remember the heartbreaking story of Pegasus, the horse that was down in the slaughter truck, that I shared a few months back. Pegasus’ memory will stay with me the rest of my life, his life was cut short because of the horrors of the slaughter pipeline. If you missed the story […]
Urgent Need: Help us save horses from the slaughter auction!
Right now we almost have enough funds to save 7 horses from the auction. The auction is coming right up in a couple days, and we need your help to save more! We see all kinds of horses at this auction we will be attending. Sick horses, old horses thrown away because they are too old for […]