Dixie is a 7 year old 14.2 hand Appy/Paint mix. She is friendly and easy to catch. She was green broke as a 3 year old, however, due to medical issues her owners were unable to continue her training. Since being surrendered, Dixie has completed a 30 day refresher course with our professional trainer. She […]
Tag: 2017
Urgent Need: Auction Rescue!
Urgent Need – Please Help, Save a Horse from Slaughter! We will be attending an auction within a week and desperately need your help. Over 100,000 horses are shipped out of the USA for slaughter every year. All that kill buyers see at auctions are dollars on hooves, and the horses are purchased for their meat, […]
102 Horses Surrendered at the 1-Day Open Door Shelter for Horses in California
We held our 4th 1-Day Open Door Shelter on March 5th, this time in California. A staggering number of horses were surrendered, a total of 102! Horse trailers were lined up waiting to drop off horses whose owners could no longer keep them. The barns at the fairgrounds began filling up quickly. We would like to […]
CALL TO ACTION
Horse Plus Humane Society is thrilled to announce that we’ve partnered with FLOAT – For Love Of All Things to bring you limited edition Save America’s Horses Tees available until Monday at 9am Mountain Standard Time. For every shirt sold FLOAT will donate $8 to Horse Plus Humane Society to help us in our mission of saving horses. Head […]
ASPCA Grant!
We cannot thank the ASPCA enough for awarding us a $4,500 grant to help care for a group of horses seized by law enforcement. The ASPCA’s support is vital as to date we have received no assistance from law enforcement or the owner of the horses. We cannot release any information on the horse’s condition […]
California Shelter: Lambs, Horses and More
These sweet little babies were in desperate need of attention. A person was given two very emaciated animals, a sheep and a goat. One had babies at her side and the other delivered shortly after arrival to their new home. All the babies were struggling to survive as neither mom could adequately supply the nutrients […]
Another Scarred Big Lick Tennessee Walking Horse Saved
Saturday night we rescued another scarred big lick Tennessee Walking Horse from the slaughter pipeline in Tennessee. Royal has gone through 2 auctions in less then a week, we believe that he was purchased at one auction then taken to another auction to try to make more money off of him. His Coggins was done […]
Tennessee Shelter: Adoptions and Mud
It was a chilly day when Shelby came out to groom the horses. Dream absolutely loves all the attention, he is such a beautiful boy inside and out. Many of you will remember him as the one I saved with stacks and chains on at the auction. Those days are long behind him now and […]
California Shelter: Welcomes an Adoption Specialist to the Team
We are very excited to announce that we have hired a part time professional horse trainer to be our horse trainer, evaluator and Adoption Specialist to help increase adoptions at our California shelter. This was made possible by you, our supporters. Horse Trainers are very important for horses in transition. Horses are often given up due to […]
Oklahoma shelter: Volunteer Day, Auction Rescue and More
The January auction day started out very busy. I had planned on cutting down several trees to make a clearing for some new pens, but then an amazing volunteer offered to use their tractor. The tractor pushed down around 25 trees and I used the chainsaw on another 10. At the end of the day […]