We received a call from one of our supporters in Ojai, CA. She is a trainer and she has adopted a few horses we have networked in the past for her lesson program. She had taken on a 15 year-old Friesian mare who she was told would be a great lesson horse, but it turned out that the mare was not trained, at least not for beginner riders. She was torn because she really wanted a beautiful Friesian, but because of recent family issues she just did not have the time to spend training her. She wanted … [Read more...]
15 y/o Friesian Cross Needs Home
We are looking to find a home for a 15 year old, 14.3 hand Friesian/QH cross. He is a very stocky boy! His name was Gabriel but his current owner calls him Alfie. She adopted him from us and her plan was to train him as a driving horse, but he just is not comfortable driving alone. He has been doing well in arena work and has even done some low jumping (we would rather he not go to a home where he will be jumped a lot, however, as he has a shoulder injury that crops up when he is worked too … [Read more...]
New Adoption and Hershey Returns to Hanaeleh
Although Hanaeleh is a relatively small rescue, and cannot take in every horse who is in need, we do our best to network horses, both internally and externally, in order to help find them new homes. When we were sent a plea from a woman who was looking for a home for Gabriel, a Friesian-Quarter horse cross, however, we knew we would easily be able to find him a home! And we did quickly find this guy a wonderful new horsie mom up in L.A. Elizabeth was scheduled to pick up Hershey from his … [Read more...]
D’Artagnan
We unfortunately must share the sad news that we had to make the difficult decision to put D'Artagnan down this morning. He was down in his stall this morning and we were unable to get him up. We called out the vet, who gave him steroids, fluids and electrolytes, but soon D'Artagnan became painful and we had no choice but to end his suffering. We thank all of those people who helped D'Artagnan over this last week, and while we had hoped he had turned a corner, we at least gave him a week … [Read more...]