Sanctuary Horses

Ranch 2nd Santuary horse
20 year old Palamino Paint

Shylow was brought to us by Decatur Sherrif's Department mid winter this year. She had been owned by one man her entire life and he had died of cancer. The owner had set up a trust fund for her and put her in the care of a long time friend. This person was dishonest and left her to die and took the trust fund money. When she was found she was so thin and had a serious eye injury. After some serious consideration we decided that in memory of our beloved Doc we would take in this old lady and make her our own. She has since had surgery to remove the eye (that was not savable) had her teeth floated so she could finally eat hay and her feet done (they hurt and she was having trouble walking). Landa and Michelle donated funds to help pay for her vet bill of over $900. Now we need your help. It costs approx $200 per month to care for this old gal. She is a permanent resident and will live her remaining days here inspiring and teaching people about abuse, neglect, love, trust and understanding from a horse's perspective.

Will you help her? Sponsor her and inspire someone!

Poncho is a 26 year old "play day horse". He was donated to us for rehabiliation and placement. Once evaluated we found that Poncho is in pain from over use and bad knee's. He came to us completely non emotional. No attachment and would really have preferred we just let him be and feed him. This hurts our hearts that an animal can feel this way. So over the past 6 months we have loved, spoiled, and spent lots of time just touching him and letting him know that we are here to stay and will never ask him to run again. I have watched this horse slowly recover. He now will let some people touch him. For Teri and I he comes and begs for attention. He loves to be touched in a quiet enviroment. Because of this he is now a permanent resident of PH. He is here to learn that humans can be good and soon I expect him to start teaching humans about abused and neglected horses. He is now almost up to weight, slicked out and shiny from good "senior" food and YES lots of cookies. We call him Mr Sexy...
Will you help this old guy out?

What is a santuary horse? It is a horse that has been deemed a "permanent resident of PH". In the past year during my hours of rescue I took in an old cart horse we found in Cleburne named "Doc". He was out in a pasture over used, starving and dying. I took him in. He calapsed on the trailer ride home. Once here he stood in a stall for 2 days leaning against the wall trying to gain his strength. BUT then a miracle happened and Doc got stronger. During his 9 month stay here he got a horrible cold and coliced once. But what did this horse do? He touched each and everyone here that came to visit. He lived his remaining days in our barn area begging for treats, snotting each and everyone of us (he had serious allergies) and nickering for each person as they entered the barn area. Although he was slowly dying he had the most fantastic last days here touching our hearts and changing everyone's opinion of the "old horses". Old and non ridable does not mean "used up". His purpose was to teach people. Teaching us about abuse, neglect and starvation. He died here October 16th 2009. His memory lives on each day. Our mission is to educate and help the old horses. Will you help us?

The horses below are Santuary horses with special needs.

Poncho has 2 angels. Dali is in love with him and each time she comes for lessons loves on him. She only comes to see him. Patty has joined the Poncho team. She loves horses and is so honored that Poncho lets her close so she can love on him. She promises him each time she comes that he is going to be so rotten spoiled!