September 7, 2014

Willie looking g handsome in his new Skips Bitless Bridles. We went off the farm for a small trail today. He gets better each time we go out! #workinprogress

 

 

 

 

 

Heart of Phoenix Equine Rescue, INC is barely holding onto first place as of this post!
Click this link to vote:
http://bit.ly/Z8YS0X
KEEP Heart of Phoenix in the lead. This is so important!
PLEASE help us win this! So many rescues are deserving, but we ARE the only group that serves a need no other organization in the entire STATE helps.
We are the state’s only 501(c)3 Horse rescue.
Please VOTE and Share each day until the 15th! Get us back in the lead and keep us there!
Thank you!

 

 

 

 

 

On Pressure and Release 

Does anyone not Love this guy?

Buck Brannaman Disk 3 – ON RELEASEExcerpt from the new dvd training series from Buck Brannaman. “The biggest challenge in creating the feature film BUCK was taking 300 hours of footage and cu…

 

 

 

 

 

 

This poor guy has caused quite an uproar. 

This is a 4 year old Saddlebred gelding known as “Neo” we picked up at auction.

We chose him because we recognized him. We felt obligated to help him. Our whole team there had seen this horse show, and that made the choice easy. Not one of the five of us there could stomach the idea of leaving him.

Further, one of our fosters who wasn’t present is a long time SB trainer, and she personally wanted to help him.

We pulled him out. 

That set off a whole round of posts from everyone who ever had anything to do with him from his conception on, even the second person who took possession of him who traded him to the person who ran him to auction. The rescue gets dragged into it as if we have been dishonest by saving this horse (and have no doubt – this was a save.) We play on “emotion” and are, I quote, “Ridiculous.”

Really, now? We are the ridiculous group?

We are quoted as posting (I have to laugh because we said nothing of the sort) on one of these threads I’ve been linked to: “We saved 2 and the other 50 went to the kill buyer.” 

I posted under the photo of the Appy we did buy who was in a pen of 4 horses, he was was the only one that didn’t go to a kill buyer. We were told the kill buyers there are the low digit numbers, and when Buyer 13 loaded up at the end of the night, having paid under $50 for each of the other 3 horses after most everyone else had gone, every horse in the pen with the Appy we pulled went in that trailer, falling and screaming, with all the others the man purchased, It takes no real thought to recognize what type of buyer he was. I’ve been going to auctions my entire life. It isn’t rocket science.

If he was just a trader who buys in bulk to haul to another auction, those unhandled, normal weight horses purchased for under $50 each are going to a killer buyer, if not this stop, another. Traders are kill buyers, as well, folks. You buy $40 horses and run them through New Holland or Sugar Creek, you don’t have to have a meat license to be a kill buyer. Please, be serious. We surely never said or even slightly insinuated the only horses at the auction to make it out were the two we bought. Though the fates for many will be bad, to say the least. 

So, it shows the length folks go to when they have handled something poorly and want to put the blame anywhere. . .even on the folks cleaning up the mess.

Sigh.

Did you follow all that?

Let me be clear: I do not care what the horse has done, why, when or where. I do not care about the bickering, maligning and she said/he said stories. . .

I do not do this to hear “people” stories. 

We picked the horse up because No horse deserves to be dumped at auction with a bleak outlook, and since we personally knew this horses name, WE would and could NOT leave him behind.

The horse has a reputation at 4 years old of being dangerous. Maybe he deserves it. Maybe he is Rogue and unsafe, and if we find that he is that, we will see he is humanely put down and doesn’t end up at another auction. We will see our obligation through. 

We hope we find that isn’t the case, but whatever the truth about him is, in the end. . he will never suffer because of it.

 

 

 

 

 

New ladies cut t shirts!!! Love these

We have tons of colors, but we ask for orders to give their size and then preferred color, but we can’t promise color will be available. We have v-necks, too. 

$15 ea plus shipping of $3

http://www.wvhorserescue.org/donate.html — with Tinia Creamer.

 

 

 

 

 

This lovely lady who has a talent for horse training and riding with no bridle or saddle, was kind enough to share our link on the TSC contest http://bit.ly/Z8YS0X AND vote for us! Thank you, Stacy Westfall, for your horse passion!!!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acCFvBubQ-Q

 

 

 

 

6 year old Fjord/Quarterhorse mare. Teaghan is available upon approved application. She does well on trails and swims in the river!

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks to Stacy Westfall for sharing our plea for votes!! That was amazing! 

Click this link to vote: 

http://bit.ly/Z8YS0X

Heart of Phoenix Equine Rescue, INC is holding onto first place as of this post! 

KEEP Heart of Phoenix in the lead. This is so important!

PLEASE help us win this! So many rescues are deserving, but we ARE the only group that serves a need no other organization in the entire STATE helps.

We are the state’s only 501(c)3 Horse rescue. 

Please VOTE and Share each day until the 15th! Get us back in the lead and keep us there! 

Thank you!