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Running out of time - HELP AND HOMES NEEDED for.......
......mature geldings and mares.
They can only be saved if adopted or sponsored - all of them available for the SPONSOR ~OR~ ADOPT Program (Chapter # 6).
If adopted or sponsored, they could go to professional trainer for 30, 60 or 90 days for $500 per month.
More info and a few photos here: Mature Horses
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02/07/2007 - URGENT - FOSTER HOMES NEEDED !!!!
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Texas Slaughterhouses shut down
THERE WILL BE NO "UNWANTED HORSE" CRISIS!
Slaughter in no way helps with unwanted horses.
In my white paper I prove there is no relationship:
http://www.horse-protection.org/pdf/Relationship-of-Abuse-to-Slaughter.pdf
Another good paper is: http://www.trfinc.org/news/TRF_WhitePaper.pdf
Each horse in America is the responsibility of its current owner. The only thing that is going to change is that those owners will not have the option of abandoning their horses to this cruel fate for a few pieces of silver. As rescuers (and yes I rescue too), it is not our responsibility to save every horse an owner wants to get rid of. It is their responsibility. Abandoning their horses or neglecting them are not legal options.
Many horses are sent to slaughter because it is marginally lest costly than treating them right. For example, a string of camp ponies can be replaced each season slightly more cheaply than it can be wintered over. The same goes for other horses. If a race horse has an injury that keeps it from racing for a few months, it is often sold to slaughter, etc, etc. It is all about money folks! It is also about whether horses are nothing more than property that can be discarded at will.
Finally, horse slaughter rewards bad behavior. When you reward bad behavior you just get more bad behavior and a sense of entitlement on the part of the abusers.
John Holland
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H A P P Y N E W Y E A R !!
And a big, big sincere THANK YOU to all adopters, foster-parents, sponsors, donors, haulers and everybody else who supported Lazy Horse Rescue with funds, hands-on help and kind words !!
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I-M-P-O-R-T-A-N-T STATEMENT
Some people (who obviously think rescue horses should be free or "cheap") have asked why some adoption fees are "so high"....
Well, here is the answer:
LAZY HORSE RANCH is a very small private rescue - our ONLY "income" are adoption fees, and all rescue efforts are funded by said adoption fees only. We do not receive a lot of donations, and if we do, they are usually smaller amounts or they are being sent for a particular horse. And we also do NOT receive grants or other contributions of any kind like most bigger rescue groups do....
Please keep in mind, the horses that we rescue are NOT given to us - we have to pay for them, and against all common believes, we always pay more than meat-price. If the places where we buy them from (PMU farmers, feedlots, etc.) would be happy with receiving “only” meat-price for them, they would rather spare themselves the trouble and the time of working with people like me, and send the horses straight to slaughter - one phone call and one truckload at a time - it’s a lot quicker and easier for them. With that being said - besides the purchase price of the horse, we also have to pay for the Vet fees to get the horses ready for transport, then we have to arrange and pay transport to SD or to a foster-home. And for Canadian horses there are also all the border fees that need to be taken care of.
When the horses finally arrive here, we need to pay for their vaccinations, castrations, exams, pregnancy-tests, blood-work, medications, sedations, farrier costs, horse-wormers, lice-treatments, supplements, shampoo, shavings, fly-spray, etc. Well, and then we still need to pay for halters, lead-ropes, grooming-tools, feeders, corral panels, water-tanks, water heaters, heat-lamps, tools, etc. And we pay just as much as everybody else does - retail prices !
Well, and in all these expenses the horses' feed is till not included - it costs about $100 per horse per month - more for the big ones, less for the foals. After a 6-year drought in our area, hay prices are up to $100+ per ton of hay - not including the high costs for delivery. We live in a high-desert climate, and with the drought on top of it, our 80 acres could support an average of 4 horses - needless to say that we need a lot of hay..... Plus, water is VERY limited and we can't take it for granted - our well is dry, so we have to haul water several times a week in a 1000 gallon tank, from a public pump station about 8 miles away.... For that we needed to buy the tank and an affordable 1960 truck that was strong enough to carry all that weight.
And last but not least, there are more expenses that most people tend to forget - things like barn-, land- and tractor-payments and -maintenance, fencing, electricity, water and of course property taxes – not to mention any kind of office expenses, phone bills, internet fees, or the endless hours we put in for free…… Yes, for free - we don't get paid. In fact I work 2 jobs to help support this little private rescue and my mission to SAVE ONE SOUL AT A TIME.
Now after you might have gotten a better idea of the financial aspect, one last comment to adoption fees:
Sometimes the adoption fees for a horse are a lot lower than his/her actual expenses, just to give the horse a better chance of getting adopted. And to make up for that loss, we need to ask higher adoption fees for other horses – horses that are especially beautiful, uniquely colored, pure-bred, healthy & sound and/or trained to ride or drive. We try to stay away from outrageously high fees, but we also have to try to stay as close to “market-value” as possible. Sometimes it might be cheaper to buy a horse straight from a breeder, and it’s almost always cheaper to buy a horse directly at auction, but please don’t forget the initial expenses that you will face after you get your horse home……
If you are looking for a free or cheap horse, then this is not the place. But if you are committed to adopting a rescue horse, if you're willing to give him/her a loving home for life, and if you found a horse here that tugs on your heart-strings, then please don’t let the adoption fee stop you. Instead keep in mind how many good things could be done with those funds, and that in the end you would save a horse’s life. Even though the horses that are here right now, available for adoption, are safe - please remember that prior adoption fees made it possible to save these horses’ lives – and the adoption fee of the horse you’re considering to adopt could safe the life of another lost soul..... Thank you.
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E X P I R E D - A D O P T E D :
FOR ADOPTION - Located in CA - 2 Yearlings: Keera (Shire Filly) and Bandit (Percheron Gelding) - see details here: YOUNGSTERS
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