Tag: 2011

We had been working on rescuing 3 horses out of an Animal Control where they were going to be euthanized due to a lack of resources for horses.  In the area they were, there are not a lot of potential horse homes due to a lack of boarding stables and people willing to give a […]

Thursday Tawnee was on the road once again with a load of horses.  This time she wasn’t heading to the vet, she was doing something different. She was heading out with a group of people and horses to go for a trail ride at the Lake Oroville Equestrian center.  One thing we may not have […]

We would like you to meet Volton and Spencer.  They were surrendered at our SAFE Surrender Site together and their owner was willing to write up some information about them. Volton is approximately 28 years old.  Volton has developed arthritis and his teethe are worn down. The arthritis can definitely be seen.  It is so […]

We would like to welcome all of our new readers.  Our blogs are about the daily happenings at our shelter, important horse events, and other timely information.  We are catching up from the horse expo, so please enjoy the blog. Thursday afternoon Jason and Tawnee hit the road to Sacramento to set up the Horse […]

Have you been entered into our free raffle for a trip to Hawaii for 2?  If you haven’t heard about it, click here for the full details.  We now have 38 sponsors, almost to 40!  We will be sending out the raffle numbers to the sponsors after the expo.  We only need 262 more sponsors to get […]

Urgent: Call TODAY to Prevent Horse Slaughter Plants from Opening! Dear Reader, I am asking that you will take a moment out of your day for our American horses. They need you to be their voice once again!  Hundreds of thousands of our American horses were brutally killed in slaughter houses here in the United States before 2007. In 2007 the blood […]

As you know, the entire horse community is saddened by the outbreak of Equine Herpesvirus -1 (EHV-1.)  As of this blog, there have been been at least 55 confirmed cases in the United States, mainly centering on California with 18 positive cases.  We all hope and pray that the outbreak will end quickly and that […]

A deadly horse virus has come to California, Equine Herpes Myeloencephalopathy (EHM.)  We have been consulting with our vet, and we have decided to have no horses coming or going from the shelter until June 6th.  Our vet feels that unless more outbreaks happen, after June 6th we should be safe.   There is no […]

The May Euthanasia Clinic is just over $300, which provides the funds for 2 free hardship cases.  It still has a long ways to go to reach its goal and the clinic is tomorrow!  The ChipIn thermometer is not accurate as we cannot manually update it, and some donations came in through our regular donation […]

It is amazing how many Sunday’s it has been forcasted to rain.  Once again, it is scheduled to rain on Sunday, so the shelter will be closed for visitors and volunteers.  Eventually, summer will be here and the threat of rain will be banished until next winter.  Keep it under your hat, but we are hoping that […]