Centapede

The 2009 Unwanted Horses Survey* estimated that there are at least 100,000 unwanted horses in the United States, many of them without alternatives for their care.. But the survey didn’t stop with identifying the problem: it also proposed strategies for mitigation, one that depends on the Centipede Solution and goes like this:

Enter the Centipedes 

The game is tug of war. The task of the freshman class is to beat the senior class team consisting of ten beefy football players, each almost twice as big as even the biggest ninth-grader. The Frosh have two things going for them: the rules that impose a weight limit on each team and the Centipede Solution. All centipedes and this freshman class know that the number of feet count more than the size of the feet’s owners. So enter the freshman team consisting of twenty-two of the smallest members of the class, totaling 2000 pounds and forty-four feet. The ten two-hundred-pound seniors don’t stand a chance. They are pulled off their large senior feet by the smaller but more numerous freshmen feet in less than five minutes.

Score ONE for the Centipedes!

The Equamore Foundation competes in its own tug of war, where large and small charities vie for donors. Our theory is that a thousand small contributors can give as much, even more, than a hundred donors with larger bank accounts. Again, it’s numbers and not size that count. A monthly subscription of just $20 per month makes you one of the many tug-of-war feet that support the over 50 horses depending on Equamore for food and care. Just 65¢ a day keeps Bryant and Shorty, Snoopy and Cosmo, Thor and Magic in their pastures at our equine sanctuary. Increasing your contribution or encouraging a friend to take hold of the rope multiplies your effort and beats the feet of The Donald, Bill Gates, and Warren Buffet combined!

Score ONE more for the Centipedes!

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