Other Rescues

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This rescue became known as the Kansas 45+2, as two donkeys were also found to be in the herd. A rescue of this magnitude needs much organization and money. $300 per horse just to keep it off the slaughter truck is only the beginning. Vet bills, food, farrier, transportation to a safe haven, where they are cared for until adoption can cost as much as $2,000 per horse for one month depending on the horse’s needs. $25,000 has been raised to rescue and sustain these horses since the rescue, June 1, 2007.

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Careen Cain of Kansas who instigated the rescue, has and still is working very hard to care for the horses still in her care. Some of these horses have been adopted, and the others have been transported to Karen Everheart at Rainbow Meadows Rescue in Sedan, Kansas.

Fans of Barbaro raised funds in June 2007 to save 30 mares and their foals from a feedlot in Texas. Some of the mares were heavily pregnant. A feedlot is an unsanitary environment to be giving birth. Foster homes were secured for all these horses, and will eventually find their forever adoptive homes.

Habitat for Horses received a call to rescue a horse in need. Nayisa had been bought at auction for $35. Her owner decided to sell her for $100. The mare did not want to go into the trailer, and the owner lost his temper. He wrapped barbed wire around the noseband of her halter, and this dug into her face, the more she pulled, refusing to load.

He then tied her to the back of the trailer and trailed her several hundred feet. By now she was on the ground and was being dragged. As if this wasn’t enough, the owner then reversed over her with the trailer, trapping her underneath. When rescuers arrived, they had to lift the trailer off the horse, Nayisa is now in foster care and has undergone several surgeries to remove bone fragments from her skull. This man had also SHOT HER IN THE FACE! The mare was rescued by authorities and spent 7 days in intensive care at a veterinary clinic. Habitat for Horses was called to take care of her. Read her story: Nayisa - The Louisiana Mare

Nayisa’s road to recovery has been a long one, and an expensive one. Please donate whatever you can to assist with her ongoing care.

Watch this video entitled “The Fight to End Abuse”. 

Theresa Batchelor of Beauty Haven Farm & Equine Rescue recently saved a mare with her one-day-old foal from a shot to the head, because the foal was born with a wry nose. This is a deformity to the nose which hinders the foal from nursing, breathing, and eating food later on. It should be corrected early on. Baby Belle and mom, Sue, was rescued on the day that Eight Belles died at the Kentucky Derby, hence her name Aaleyah Belle.

Mom and baby were very weak upon arrival at Beauty’s Haven, and the foal required plasma and colostrums. Aalayeh Belle was fed every 4 hours from a bottle, and a calf bottle was placed in her stall, so she could “nurse” when hungry.

A few days later a 5-day old nurse mare foal arrived. It had been pulled from its mother, as this industry does. Aaleyah Belle had a new playmate, named Buttercup.

Belle required surgery to correct her deformity, which was successfully performed at the University of Florida. While there, she contracted 2 fecal viruses. She was quite sick. The cost of surgery and care was over $5,000 which was raised by the ever-faithful Fans of Barbaro. Additional funds are required for their ongoing care, and for the care given to other new arrivals such as Golden Boy, the orphaned foal with scoliosis, and the emaciated mare named Kiwi.

Read all about Aaleyah Belle and her friends.