Bay Arabian Gelding – Born in 2005 Entry Date – 7/21/17 at 12 years of age Type of rescue – Owner Surrendered Reason – Unmanageable Special needs – Gelding & Training Story catch – Better Late Than Never This beautiful Bay Arabian came to us as a completely untrained and dangerous twelve-year-old stallion. His former owners are nice people, but simply didn’t know what they were doing. They acquired a mare twelve years ago who was pregnant with Leo. He…
An Accident Means Early Retirement Black Thoroughbred Gelding Entry Date – 5/1/12 Type of rescue – Retirement Reason – Lameness from a bone chip in his left front leg Special needs – None Originally, Eddie was trailered in to the facility for a weekly riding lesson by the woman who owned him at the time. Because of Eddie’s athletic ability and hot nature, the owner soon decided he was too much horse for her and put him up for sale.…
Out of Options Falcon – Buckskin Quarter Horse Gelding – Born 2000 Entry Date – 11/12/19 Type of Rescue – Surrender Reason – Chronic Neglect Special Needs – None Falcon, along with Phoenix, were owned by a prominent local person who was keeping them in a friend’s field. The owner died without making any known provision for his horses and the “friend” wanted no part of them. Law Enforcement was called when the horse’s weight dropped to dangerously low levels.…
Glad To Be Home At Last Chestnut Thoroughbred Gelding Born 3/3/92 Entry Date – 7/12/08 Type of rescue – Surrendered Reason – Owners lost interest in horses and couldn’t find a buyer for him Special needs – None Mowen first came to the Sanctuary from his previous owners because they were getting out of the horse business and moving back to town. Unable to find a buyer, the owners asked if Equamore might possibly find someone to adopt him. In…
Blind in one eye and can’t see out of the other Chestnut Quarter Horse Gelding Entry Date – 10/22/16 at 23 years of age Type of rescue – Surrender Reason – Owner unable to care for Cash Special needs – Continuing care of leg wound Cash was an elderly gelding Quarter Horse whose owner loved him. He served his owner for many years before his owner, and thus Cash, fell on hard times. When surrendered to the Sanctuary, Cash had…
A Place for Bear Bay DWB Gelding Entry Date – 5/4/18 at 28 Years of Age Special Needs – Had Cushing’s Disease After twenty years with the same family, Bear’s life was coming to a premature end because health issues forced his owner to move from the property that Bear knew as home. Unable to find a place to move Bear because of his special needs, a veterinarian was called in to euthanize him. Unable to bring themselves to end…
An Endurance Horse Who Had To Endure Too Much Bay Arabian/Saddlebred cross Gelding Entry Date – 7/1/12 at 19 years of age Type of rescue – Surrendered Reason – So he would have a permanent home Special needs – None Departed – September 7, 2020 Tebow was used for endurance racing for a number of years and at he even competed in at least one grueling hundred mile race. When his racing career ended, however, the bay gelding fell on…
The Last Terrible Day Black Bay QTR Gelding Entry Date – 11/19/11 Type of rescue – Seizure by Jackson County Sheriff’s Department Reason – Severe neglect and abuse Special needs – Patience and understanding because of emotional trauma When authorities were asked to check on two neglected horses in a weedy field in the Applegate valley, they found a fit and feisty Quarter Horse and an emaciated Thoroughbred who could not walk on his overgrown and foundered feet. Realizing that…
A Small Pony Wearing “Slippers” Palomino Shetland Pony Mare Entry Date – 4/28/08 Type of rescue – Surrendered Reason – Severe neglect of her hooves Special needs – None For Dapples, who spent a good part of her life as a party pony, the party ended when her owner’s business failed. The dappled (of course) Shetland mare was placed with one other horse in a pasture where both were left to fend for themselves on sparsely growing grass and weeds.…
Why Didn’t They Want Me? Breed – Bay Arab Gelding Entry Date – January 10, 2018 at Age (approximately) 30 Type of rescue – Voluntary Transfer Reason – Abandonment Special needs – Special feeds and eye care Gato was abandoned through a sale of a boarding facility. He was not accounted for in the list of boarders, the seller could not or would not provide information about his owner, and the new owners did not have the resources or knowledge…
