Stories

Breed Rocky Mountain Age Twenty Two Sex Gelding Color Chocolate Dapple Height 14.2hh I have loved and worked with horses from early on in my life, but my outlook on them changed when I was given Blaze. He was half blind, skittish, and formerly abused. After fighting...

Breed Paint Age Nineteen Sex Gelding Color Bay Tobiano Pinto Height 14.3hh When you hear of an FEI dressage horse, you typically think of a magnificent specimen that has been respectfully bred with the most intricate care and research in order to successfully...

Breed Arabian Age Six Sex Gelding Color Dappled Gray Height 14hh Stormy was bought unnamed from a Louisiana kill pen just two hours before he would have been shipped to slaughter. He was very underweight, just skin and bone. He came to us with a case of very bad...

Breed Gypsy Vanner Age Three Sex Gelding Color Black/White Tabino Height 14.2hh He was an Appaloosa named Apache. I did not realize when I bought him that he was extremely head shy and spooky. We slowly started to realize that he had been abused at one point in time....

Where do I even begin the story of me and Aerion? I received my first horse when I was nine years old. She was an old competitive mounted shooting quarter horse named Reba. Reba was my best friend for years until she was called up to greener pastures. I was devastated when she…

I had always had horses. I had a farm of my own for 14 years, but due to divorce I placed all of my horses and could no longer have any. I went around 10 years without one. Then I met Cajun. I was going through a rough time, as my daughter’s husband at the time was on his way…

My story begins when I moved to the US in 2014 coming from Brazil, my birth country. My husband was transferred and I had the opportunity to start anything that I wanted to do. I decided to do volunteer work and found Save the Horses (Horse Rescue Relief and Retirement). I…

I discovered Bug through a sale ad on Facebook and I instantly felt an attraction towards him. I had begun my horse search a month before, and he sounded just like who I was looking for. I vividly remember the day I first met Bug. He was cross tied and being groomed when I…

I wasn’t really ready to look for a horse when Hero chose me. I was out at the rescue to donate massage to another horse when he got my attention. He was leaning over the fence looking at me in a way that I just couldn’t ignore. All the horses at this rescue had been bound for…

My journey with River began when I was a toddler just coming out of diapers, some 47 years ago. There’s not a time that I can recall never loving horses. I was a typical tomboy, horse-crazy, farm girl who believed that God meant for me to be a horse. My first horse came…

I adopted Nick at three years old. He had been started as a team roper. His background is a little fuzzy, but I found out that he had roughly five owners before he came to me. It was immediately obvious that he hadn’t had the best start to life. He was incredibly head-shy…

I'll never forget the phone call from my friend, "Hey someone dropped off a bunch of weanlings at the sale barn that are super sick and malnourished, will you help me pick one out?" The story goes that in the middle of the night someone dropped off 10 yearlings that...