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Featured Horse

MIA
www.newenglandequinerescues.com
NEER/Mia/NH is a 15 yo, 15.3h bay alpha Standardbred mare with
presence giving the appearance of a big handsome horse. She was raced as
a youngster and then retired to be a broodmare. Mia proved to be an
excellent mother but slipped too many foals so went back to racing at
about age 12 having remembered everything. At that time she taught her
race owner how to drive. After winning $1200 in a race she was again
retired and sold as a pleasure horse to a man who after doing absolutely
nothing with her for a year went broke and gave her to NEER as a
rescue.
Mia is an easy keeper and very well behaved accepting that humans are
alphas above her. However she is dominant with other horses. She is
good for vet & farrier, stands quietly on crossties, picks up her feet
on her own when you bend to pick them out and behaved perfectly when
hitched to a cart for a tryout in the ring, waiting patiently while we
fussed with harness, went to get & changed pieces of it etc. She should
make someone a great driving horse and would most likely take well to
learning to be ridden also.
Canterbrk@aol.com
for more info.
Equine rescues and shelters interested in
submitting a Featured Horse available for adoption, please e-mail louisa@equinesite.com This is a free service for
registered non-profits.
Adoption Story
RAZZY
Adopted from MSPCA at
Nevins Farm
Razzy came to the MSPCA in
the Spring of 2008, emaciated and neglected. Throughout the summer, he
hung out with his pasturemate Rusty and ate as much grass as possible.
In the Fall of 2008, a fat and happy Razzy attended the Horses Helping
Horses Beach Ride as an MSPCA horse available for adoption. With his
acquired hay belly and unknown background history, there were not too
many people willing to take a chance on this pony. In the Spring of
2009, Dani Douphinette, then adoption councilor at the MSPCA at Nevins
Farm, saw some potential in the pony and fostered him at her stable,
Plum Grove Equestrian Center, to see what this pony could do. After
just a month, he began turning some of his hay belly into muscle and
could walk, trot, canter on his left lead, and jump small crossrails.
What Dani liked even more than this, was Razzy's temperament. He was
spunky, but tolerant of children grooming and loving on him. When out
on the trail, Razzy picked his feet up a little higher and seemed to
truly enjoy his new life.

It was at Plum Grove
Equestrian Center that 12 year old Stephanie took an interest in the
pony. "I knew I liked him right away because his mane was the same
color as my hair", she reported. But not everyone was convinced. Razzy
had difficulty picking up his right lead canter and it was unclear if
he had any potential in the show ring. Stephanie had 30 days to foster
Razzy and determine if he was the right pony for her (although, she
was already quite convinced!)
On August 1, 2009, Stephanie
officially adopted the pony of her dreams! She continued her hard work
and was able to walk, trot, canter both ways, jump up to 2'3"
and trail ride alone and in company. In October 2009, Stephanie and
Razzy returned to the MSPCA Horses Helping Horses Beach Ride where
Razzy proudly stepped out along the waves, this time as an alum!
In addition to her beach
ride, Stephanie has successfully competed Razzy, now under the name "Razzcal
Flatts". At the WNRDC pleasure show, they received a blue ribbon in
the "rescued horse" class and ribbons in hunt seat and games classes
as well. They also successfully competed in gymkhana at the RRDC games
show, combined training at Evenstride's Goblin's Gallop, and
participated in the Horses Helping Horses Trail Ride at Great Brook
State Park. Razzy received first place in the Gathering Farm two phase
elementary division. Razzy and Stephanie are members of the Plum
Grove Drill Team and participated in three performances. And all this
since June of 2009, proving Stephanie made the right choice!
Plum Grove Equestrian Center
would like to congratulate Stephanie for taking a chance on Razzy and
showing that hard work and dedication truly pay off. Stephanie and
Razzy will be featured at Plum Grove Equestrian Center's Open House in
spring of 2010. See our website for details:
www.plumgroveequestrian.com
Have you adopted a horse, pony or foal?
If so, we'd like to hear from you. Please send photo and 3-4 paragraphs to louisa@equinesite.com
Legislation
The following are links to laws and proposed laws concerning the welfare of horses.
SAPL: American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act.
(March 30th Action Alert)
HOOFPAC:
Get up to speed on current effort to stop slaughter in the US.
Equine Protection Network: State
Transport Laws for: CT MA (scroll
down the page)
NY
VT
Education
Net Posse: Horse theft education begins here.
Horse Placement Options: Don't know what to do with a horse you can no
longer keep?
Vets For
Equine Welfare:
useful resource for all animal health professionals and horse
owners
Petitions
Eight Belles Bill
Do you have a petition pertaining to horse
welfare or slaughter that you would like to share? Click to suggest a petition.

Rehabilitation Story

Dagh, adopted from
NEER
I had been looking for a
Brabant for
10 years, was about to pay for a stud colt in VA. Christy (AC4H) only
knew about the breed because I had been drilling it into her...for
months. The last horse she thought was a Brabant was a 2000lb roan
Belgian, now known as The BIG Mr. being fostered in Groveland, MA.
Christy was pretty sure she had one this time, and she was bidding against
the meatman. Dagh's life was saved for $450! He was badly foundered in
front and skinny. See photos above.
His feet, almost a year later, are still scary, but they're almost normal
looking. He can now walk without staggering along in pain. After
his last trim, he trotted back out to his best pal Reuben, even taking two
canter steps! He then spent 10 minutes doing the Buck and Fart.

Dagh the following winter.
He is the sweetest, quietest, most grounded and well behaved horse I've
ever come across. And a veritable air fern, he looks like a barrel with
trunks, and eats practically nothing.
Dagh is looking forward to walks to the beach this summer. His farrier,
Mike, wants to see how soaking his tootsies in the salt water might help
with founder.
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Fever,
October 18, 2007. This is the picture I took the first day I seen Fever.
He followed
me with his eyes when I walked up to him, but he did not move.
I told him
It would be ok.
Fever
Hooves & Paws Rescue
I am sure
many of you remember Fever. The horse that came into our rescue October
18, 2007. He was very sick from being neglected and starved. He could
not hold his own weight up without a struggle. He was at least 450 lbs
underweight. Each Vet that seen him said, he was not going to make it
that we should let him go. We thought otherwise. We could see a horse
that wanted to survive. We would like to share with you some updated
pictures of Fever that we took recently. He is a fighter! He
still has weight to gain but we are very happy with his progress at this
point.
I will be
taking Fever to our Family Fun Day Benefit for our rescue August 16, 2008
at American Legacy Horse Complex. I will either walk him into the arena or
with God's Blessing I may even ride him in! It is up to Fever. He was a
rodeo roping horse and he also did some barrel racing. So maybe he and I
will run some barrels if he is up to it. Who knows, he may give me a
great ride. No matter what, he is a wonderful horse with a lot of sprit.
He will live his life out at our rescue as he deserves to be loved and
pampered from here on out after what he has been through before coming to
our rescue.
Take Care &
God Bless
Miracles Do
Happen!
Genea
Stoops
President
Hooves &
Paws Rescue, Inc.
A Place To
Heal
In
Glenwood, IA
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