Tag: 2013

April 2nd was World Autism Awareness Day.  We wanted to do something special to help brighten a special girl’s day.    Her and her family came out to the shelter and dyed Dottie’s mane and tail blue, the color for autism awareness. Dottie was a very good girl and enjoyed all of the attention.  She […]

Over the weekend we had some rain, thankfully, but it did mean everyone had to work hard getting all the animals settled before the rain hit.  When it was storming it was so nice the animals could all be dry.  We had a lot of rain fall. By Monday the weather was much better, but […]

Our blog writers were in Large Animal Evacuation training this week with UC Davis, so they were unable to keep the blog updated.  The shelter was open and lots happened so it’s time to catch you up. We put out a plead for more lead ropes for the shelter, and we cannot thank everyone who ordered and donated lead […]

In our last blog we shared with you the horrible situation in New Mexico.  A worker for a future New Mexico horse slaughter house, Tim Sappington, was mad at animal activists and shot a horse to make a hateful point.  The story has quickly spread, and has gone international. The story of Justice, which is […]

As many of you know there are plans for a horse slaughter house in New Mexico.  A man by the name of Tim Sappington is the first paid employee for Valley Meat Co, which is the company trying to slaughter horses near Roswell.  Mr Sappington has a message for you, which is quite shocking, he […]

As you know we rescued 8 horses and 1 mule from 2 different livestock auctions this last weekend.  We did not have an opportunity to do a normal fundraiser before the auction, and we need your help.  We are almost to our normal monthly goal of $5,000 for the rescue and care of auction horses, we only […]

We got a great update from Strayberry’s adoptive family.  “This is Strawberry we adopted in 2009 and she is still my daughters Best Friend! Kory is now 11 yrs old and Strawberry is around 20 and still going strong.  They are on there 2nd year of 4-h. Walk-trot, and showing English and western AND some […]

We received an email from the Roswell, New Mexico Mayor’s office.  They thanked us for all the emails and phone calls, however, the Mayor can’t help because the horse slaughter house is not in the city limits.  They gave us the USDA Roswell Sub Office phone number so we all can contact them and have […]

Call to Action: In Roswell, NM horse slaughterhouse plans are underway.  One of our followers made a petition, and we are asking people to sign it.  More importantly, call the Mayor, Del Jurney, at 575-637-6202 or email at [email protected] and let him know 40 jobs, no doubt all minimum wage jobs, are not worth the senseless torture […]

Tuesday morning Tobak the goat was surrendered.  Brittany picked him up and carried him to the waiting trailer. Back at the shelter he got his hooves trimmed and all fixed up so he would be ready for adoption. Tobak is quite the cute little guy, he is only 10 months old and would make a […]