4-30-08

Today we had to take Cowboy, Copper (not Copper Hopper, the Copper in our retirement program) and Campeon to the vet. Pulling in it was great to see Dusty and Blaze munching hay with little pink bandages around their front leg. One leg on each has had surgery, the other leg will be done soon. The vet is giving them time to see if the other leg needs surgery or not, and to let them have a chance to at least have 1 leg that's almost mended, 3 legs you can stand on is hard enough, imagine trying to stand on 2!

Campeon got his Coggins and health certificate so he can be cleared to go to his new home.

Copper recently suddenly began losing weight, and his blind eye was becoming painful, so the kindest thing to do was allow him to die with love, affection and dignity. His life was deemed to poor and today was his time to go. He was such a sweet and beautiful guy, but I can assure you that his last hour was one of delight. We gave him a 5 gallon bucket full of sweet cob grain all sweet and yummy and he ate the whole thing, and then he ate another 2 gallons or so. He may have thought he'd died and went to heaven already! Copper we will miss you and we love you! We are so glad you didn't die in a mean slaughterhouse. When Cowboy first came to us back in 2006, he was lame. The barefoot trimmer who adopted him worked with him extensively getting his feet to perfect condition, but unfortunately he was still somewhat lame so his adopter donated him back. We had him x-rayed today, and he has some navicular due to damage to his navicular bone, it's not the disease, it is due to an old injury. Our vet believes with the surgery on that leg that he would be pain free and then should be shoed. Maybe if he wore Old Mac boots it would work out well too.

We brought Gregster, the giant humongous over sized donkey, back from the vet after his gelding. He was a stray near Bangor and Butte County Animal Control turned him over to us. He is huge! That is Ottoman Empire next to him, the 17.1 hand 1400 lb draft horse! This donkey is 14.3 hands, definitely the biggest donkey by far that has ever been in our rescue. Talk about the two huge blacks!

All you donkey fans that believe you want the big donkey, sorry, he's already been adopted. This potential adopter happened to be in the right place at the right time! He's a big donkey lover, but this is the biggest donkey he has ever been around.

Rosco was also adopted today, he'll be living with Gregster enjoying lots of love and attention. The wife has a tendency towards horses, while her husband enjoys donkey's. She really loves Rosco! Rosco had a waived adoption fee as he had a seizure recently that really concerned us.

A huge THANK YOU!!!! to everyone that has donated so generously the last couple days to make rescuing horses a reality. A coupe donations really touched our hearts. Kelly and Cindy donated extremely generously to the Last Act of Kindness fund! It takes someone that can really see the reality of unwanted horses plight in life, and be willing to step up and make a difference! They are the first 2 donors towards the Last Act of Kindness fund. Again, thank you, and I know the horses would thank you if they could!

Another donation that touched our hearts is going to feed a lot of hungry horses. Wendy decided she would rather feed some hungry rescued horses and forgo getting more jewelry this year for her birthday, so husband Craig bought 20 bales! Thank you so much Wendy and Craig! How extremely thoughtful of you both.

Thank you everyone so much for your thoughts and support, life is getting back to normal after having little Justin take off and scare us all mostly to death!

Many Adoption Holds

Today started out seemingly like any other day, but it sure didn't end that way.


It was time to get the another e-news out, Tawnee writes all of our e-news. Jason wanted to help Tawnee's parents do some fire hazard reduction around their place, so Jason took the 4 kids to visit Gramma and Grandpa and let Tawnee do all the work herself in peace and quiet. Tawnee got lots done, got 4 horses in adoption pending status, talked on the phone and worked diligently on the E-news, which was sent out quite successfully.

Shortly after the e-news was sent, about 6:00 pm, Tawnee got a call from her mother with the words no parent ever wants to hear: "Justin is missing, he disappeared, we cannot find him anywhere." Tawnee's parents live out in the country, with thick underbrush and forest everywhere around their property, with mountain lions with cubs and a big bear that has been breaking into chicken coops. How could a little 2 year old ever fend for himself? Jason and Tawnee only have 1 vehicle, and Jason had taken it, so Tawnee called Claire who dropped everything to come over, pick up Tawnee, and go help look for Justin! Deb and her husband, who is a search and rescue officer, headed over to help look too, along with friends and relatives from all over the area. It's the most terrible feeling to have your baby lost in the woods! About 20 people had showed up and were looking diligently, hoping to find him before nightime and almost freezing weather took over, and the Sheriff was almost there, when 1.2 miles from his Grandparents place Justin was found by some random strangers who had no idea who he was. He was by the gate that goes back to their place, near a creek, and so the kind strangers drove him up and down the populated road looking for people who should have been looking for the kid. When they spotted the Sheriff on his way they flagged him down and Justin was safe in his daddy's arms about 10 minutes before mom got there to help look. Justin, please, stay closer!
It took Justin less than 1 hour to wander over a mile from Gramma's house! There were people driving up and down the road looking for him too, so he must have gone cross country, which is impossible to travel through basically. Steep ravines, black berry vines, multiple creeks, he really is our little miracle tonight. Thankfully Justin is safe and sound without a scratch!
Needless to say we didn't get back to the ranch until after 10:00, and after reporting the stolen car dumped about half a mile from the rescue, we're more than ready to shut our brains off and get some sleep! And the quad ran out of gas while Jason was feeding tonight.

Horsepower by Twine

Tawnee and Jason are still under the weather somewhat, but of course the work goes on.

Tawnee researched the pedigree's and information about the 5 horses from Animal Control. She got shoved around to a bunch of different people at AQHA, but they seem cooperative and willing to help us get them registered if possible. Or at least get their birthdays and pedigree. All we're really concerned about is knowing how old they are and hopefully get their names.

Jason headed out to get yet another load of hay, and our happy girls came out to volunteer again. Today was a very special job: Easter twine hunt. A little late for Easter, but still fun. Great job, that's a lot of twine and it really needed to be done! Thanks for your hard work. Otto was surprised that people showed such an interest in twine, he only likes what it holds.

Another 72 bales of good alfalfa at $10 a bale for a hefty check of $720!!! At our current feeding it will last less than 2 weeks. We really need hay sponsors! Please consider donating at least 1 bale a month, would you really miss $10 a month? Thanks FOB's for raising $100 for hay! What a great surprise, thank you!

We're going to go have a creative brainstorm session about a very exciting program we will be launching aimed at 5-15 year old girls. More details later!

Working Sick

Today both Jason and Tawnee felt really terrible, but that didn't stop work from being done. Tawnee spent the day outside while Jason did office work. We both had terrible headaches, runny noses, etc, but the work goes on.
Most of the outside work got done thanks to Becky and Deb! Becky spent her time making the horses look beautiful while Deb spent her time testing the saddle. Deb got a lot of horses evaluated today, great work Deb and Becky! What would we do without you two?

After a long day of work Tawne came in to see something she doesn't like at all in an email forward. Stallion fighting in foreign countries. It's just like cock fighting or dog fighting, it's often a fight to the death. The horses are bred only to fight. Horses that could have been loving companions instead are whipped into a frenzy and often fight to the death. People are actually insane. In the wild horses will bicker, but the loser just leaves. When people get involved, the loser dies. To find out more, if you can stomach such blatant cruelty, link 1 , link 2.

We're going to try to get better tonight. It's time for another load of hay already tomorrow...

Little Pony

It's almost the weekend, yay for us! It's been a long week with a lot of driving and working.

Showed horses to potential adopters today. Nugget was placed in adoption pending, but not by the people that came out. She should be transported to her new home next week sometime. Hope all goes well for you Nugget, it's been fun even though it's been a long time since you came! You've watched a lot of horses come and go, and you deserve the best.

Tawnee spent almost all day long updating Petfinder and there is now a lot more information for all the horses that we've evaluated. We'll know more about a lot of the horses on Sunday after Deb comes out and risks her neck. Come on out Deb, we need you! There's no risk involved, really, there is no risk involved to us!

Tawnee also does lessons on Friday afternoon, usually using our personal horses, but Oliver was begging with his eyes to be used. So, come to find out, he's a perfect gentleman. He did great with the absolute beginner! He has a couple edges that need to be smoothed out, but he's a really sweet boy. We know everyone that sees him in person says he's the "ugliest cutest" thing they've ever seen, but spend some time with him, his looks do grow on you.

Have a great weekend! We'll get recouped for the next week. Jason drove over 800 miles last week rescuing and delivering equines to their new homes. Now Jason has the flu and misery loves company...

Big and Small

Today we introduced Dottie to Ottoman Empire. He's big, she's small. She was for the most part terrified of him and stuck right next to us. He couldn't believe his eyes, and certainly had a hard time believing his nose that she was a real horse! Perhaps a dog or a goat, but a real horse? Very odd indeed!

One of our foster homes sent us a Craigslist link that showed that Daisy Baby and Buttercup were being sold! The adoption was not finalized and this point they were not hers to sell. Our volunteer called her up and warned her that they were not her donkeys to sell and that they should come back to NorCal. She said it didn't matter and she had a home lined up for them anyways. With a little footwork we tracked them down. Nancy had the buyer sign a "training" agreement as she didn't want to do a bill of sale or collect funds until the adoption is finalized. This clearly violates the adoption contract: "The adopter must keep the equine in their care for the first six (6) months after the adoption form date." In her Craigslist add she noted that they were for sale or trade. It's really sad when people think they can get a horse from us and just turn around and sell it. We really aim for forever homes.

We were able to get our donkey's back, the person that had them didn't want to get involved in the middle of the legal proceedings that will be occuring. Daisy Baby and Buttercup have been placed in their new forever home with Harold, a donkey we rescued in 2005.

We let most of the horses out on the 20 acre pasture today, and they loved running and playing! We wish you could have seen it, it was so great seeing previously doomed horses enjoying life to the fullest.

It's a Big one!

Savannah has a new best friend named Crackers who recently lost her buddy. Savannah was adopted and transported to her new home today, and settled right in and went to work eating hay. Her new home greatly loves her already! On the way Jason decided to follow TomTom GPS navigation, and ended up driving around on tiny 1 lane dirt roads for awhile. All is well that ends well, and he was only about half an hour late. The road did eventually lead to civilization, and Jason got to visit the historic town of Shingletown for about 30 seconds.

From Savannah's home Jason went to pick up Mr Ottoman Empire, the biggest (maybe not the tallest, but definitely the biggest) horse we have ever had in our rescue. A 4 year old purebred Percheron gelding. It'll be fun to put him up on the scale tomorrow when it's light! It'll be cute seeing what Dottie thinks of him. Of course it was dark when Jason got back, so the picture isn't the best, but you can get an idea of how big he is, Tawnee stands at least almost 5'3"!

Tawnee spent the day updating the Petfinder database with all of our available horses. Some of them have more detailed information, so take another look if you haven't looked in awhile! Or you might want to wait until they are all done. 36 equines are currently available! Spread the word, we need some homes...

Rain!

Well it actually rained a good 1/2 inch or so this evening, but let's back up to the beginning of the day. The showing our blog on our website thng quit working late last night or really early this morning. We have a new system, wonder how long this free serice will last...

Early this morning we loaded up Jericho into "big silver" for his last trip to the vet. Unfortunately Jericho had learned the secret that he is much bigger than people, and able to push us tiny things around with no trouble, pick us up and throw us through the air, and so he was unfit for society, after sending 3 people to the hospital over last weekend. We did our best for you Jericho, we will really miss you handsome guy!

From the vet we loaded up the five beautiful, gorgeous, handsome great looking well mannered easy loading great ground mannered well bred Quarter Horses that Animal Control turned over to us. We'll be evaluating their riding abilities very soon. Gregster, the donkey, was supposed to have been gelded today, so we'll pick him up later. Blaze and Dusty are still not operated on, the vet says it's "$50 a day boarding, no problem" but no worries, she's joking. With this breeding/birthing season, she's swamped. She promises us she'll get to them sometime soon. They're fine and happy there, so it's 2 less horses here...

On the way home we stopped to get our mail, and to our unbelief and amazement we had a package from Amazon.com. We're too poor to order anything ourselves, and sure enough, it was a gift from a very kind person all the way over in Taiwan!!! It looks like we have a fan in Taiwan! Please drop us an email. Attached on the invoice was a very sweet note: "In appreciation for your loving care and noble work, please accept this beautiful and inspiring book written by Supreme Master Ching Hai as my sincere gift for the dedication and sacrifice of you and your organization. Hope you enjoy it!" A huge thank you to Loh Shih for thinking of us, we really love the book! It really brightened up our week. Here's the front cover -

We had a previous adopter come out to pick up some brochures and business cards to hand out at her stables. Let's hope it generates some interest in adopting a rescued horse!

We got a call from our retirement program foster home late this evening that Copper was not doing very good in the rain. Jason hooked up the trailer and headed up to bring him back to a nice warm comfy clean (thanks to our dedicated volunteers Annette and Kimmy who came out and cleaned today) stall. We'll be keeping a close eye on this sweet guy. He's getting older and has had a lot of health issues recently.

Jason got back around dark and still had to feed in the rain. Probably the last time this season.

Tawnee got the website updated and introduced our latest program, LAK - Last Act of Kindness. Click the link to read all about it, it's midnight, I'm done typing for today. Soon I'll be 85 wpm and I can get to bed earlier.

425 miles

- Jason left at 7:00 am to drive the 425 miles it took to adopt Kibbe into his new home, pick up the 3 horses at the Fallon auction, and pick up Cowboy, Nick and Copper Hopper, who doesn't hop. In all the trip took 10 1/2 hours, but it was well worth it to have them all here to safety. You may remember Nick and Cowboy from previous years, they were both donated today back into our rescue. They had absolute perfect care and they were both very well loved. Our rescued horses are always welcomed, and encouraged, to come back if they are unable to stay with their adopters.

From Cowboy's, Nick's and Copper's home Jason traveled to Fallon and met Kibbe's adopter at Fallon Livestock Exchange to do the adoption so he wouldn't have to travel any farther. Jason then got the 3 auction rescue horses loaded up and headed back home. What a long day!


Tawnee showed horses and Savannah has an adoption hold on her! While Tawnee was showing horses, Paleface got angry for some reason while being showed and decided that Tawnee was no longer welcome, and after Tawnee and her bluffed for awhile, she turned around and started to back up to kick her. Tawnee took off running, but Paleface managed to make 1 strike and Tawnee has a very sore rear-end. After that Tawnee lunged Paleface and worked with her, and ended up riding her, so Paleface wont' get any ideas from Jericho. She's a sweet girl, and is young and needs to learn her place in life. Humans are not horses, you can't boss them around or kick them!


All the horses arrived safe and sound before dark, enjoy the pictures! Here are the three horses that came from the NV auction. The last of the previous auction rescue effort.

Here is Copper Hopper, our 100th equine this year!!! What a magnificent horse to represent the triple digits for the year.

Cowboy and Nick are here safe too!

Windy Sunday

Joe has got a new home! His adopters were intitially interested in Elsa, but fell in absolute love with Joe and they are going to give him a wondeful home. Joe really seemed to like them too, they are repeat adopters from 2006, they have given Toledo an absolutely wonderful home, and they wanted to add another forever resident. Thanks guys!

We had a lot of volunteers out today, grooming, evaluating and riding the horses. And nope, Deb didn't get bucked off today, kicked, bit, stomped on, or anything! One of these days we will get an interesting picture... Thanks Deb, Becky, Wendy and Melissa!

Tucker is no longer being fostered. He's been adopted!!! Yay for Tucker, he's going to have a great life under the ever watchful of us, since we can see his pen from our ranch. His new home is great and all their animals are very happy. Dottie's pet goat even eloped and had a honeymoon over there it's such a resort destination for our furry friends.

Jericho came back today. Jericho has progressively gotten more aggressive towards humans and Friday he had a mental breakdown and attacked any human that came near him. A couple people unfortunately ended up in the hospital. Jericho has been adopted twice, and both times he has been returend for agression, so our board of directos has deemed him unfit for adoption and he will be humanely euathanized before he sends any more people to the hospital or worse... It's really sad to see such a beautiful, well trained horse develope violent tendancies towards humans that love him dearly.

We had a giant board meeting tonight, and have developed a more focussed mission for rescuing the most horses we can. Included in our plan was a discusison on euthanasia. We see so many horses that we would love to save, but we know we are unable to bring them into our program as they are unadoptable. Those horses do not deserve to be shipped off to be slaughtered, so we are hoping to be able to provide them a gentle ending to their magnificent life. It is very hard to see these heautiful horses be put to sleep, but it is better than walking away while they are being loaded into the slaughter truck for the long trip to Canada or Mexico. When funds allow we will be able to take horses into our program, give them love and kindness, and then let them pass on peacfully. Sadly, the fact is, there are too many people breeding horses with no thought of where those horses will end up in a few years, and then we have to make the hard decision for the right.

Also we are changing our adoption contract slightly, where if an adopter chooses to transfer ownership after the adoption has become finalized, they need to have the new owner sign a contract of no kill buyers and send it back to us. We are always looking for the best possible ways to ensure that our horses are best protected and are given the best possible care. If you have any ideas, please let us know!

Great Friday

Today was pretty a really good day. Our vet has been really busy with breeding and birthing season, so hasn't had a chance to get much done for Dusty and Blaze. They are fine there, living in a good sized pen with shelters and being fed great food every day, and the vet donates whatever stay is needed past the estimate. As soon as we know anything, you'll read it on the blog!

Motey Mote was adopted and left for his new home today to a very wonderful home that has adopted 2 horses from us previously and gives the best of care! They are a really great home, and any horse that goes there is very fortunate.

Tucker today may be finding his forever home. One of our neighbours is very interested in adopting him, she couldn't help but see the beautiful mule across the fence, so she is going to foster to make sure he fits into her family. Generally we do not foster available equines, but since it's right across the meadow and we'll see him every day, we feel it is for his best good. Be good Tucker!!!

Have a a great weekend!

Butte College

The day started off with Tawnee starting the evaluation on all the horses. Motey Mote did absolutely wonderful! He is in adoption pending status and should be going to his new home on Monday. There are still a lot more horses to evaluate, hopefully Deb will come down on Sunday and get caught up...

Some kind volunteer had placed a donation can at Butte College's cafeteria "a long long time ago" and it was overfull, but unfortunately the volunteer did not put any contact information on the can or tell the cafeteria who to call, so they almost gave it away to another horse related non-profit, but managed to track us down. We haven't counted all the penny's and nickles yet, but we'll let you know...



From there Jason headed out to take a picture of the new donkey, Gregster. He'll be available after his gelding. He is a young guy, but he's pretty big and really friendly.

Tawnee spent the rest of her day hand entering all of the adopted equines into our Petfinder adopted equine section. What a huge task, but it will be worth it in the end. Our adopted equines will be on one page, one huge page.

Also, on our available page, if you scroll down to the bottom you will notice a new area for equines in adoption pending or rehab. Now when an equine is placed into adoption pending, it will be placed there automatically. Automatic is a word we really like when it comes to computer tasks... More automatic, more time with the horses.

On the 16th we received on email from Tranquility Farm: "Dear Friends at Nor Cal Equine Rescue. The attached photo is a 7 year old, 15.2H, TB gelding named Black Jack Attack. His tattoo number will begin with E and 1 or 01. When we can find the rest of his reg. number we will send that to you.

This horse was claimed from his breeder and disappeared from Bay Meadows racetrack approximately 30 days ago, given to his groom. We believe this horse has entered the killer pipeline somewhere in N CA. His breeder is heartsick and will pay all expenses associated with the rescue and return of this horse. Please contact Tranquility Farm with any information, and if you could please forward this info to anyone who may be looking in the lots in N CA and elsewhere it would be tremendously appreciated. TB Friends already has the info. Thanks so much, and say a prayer for this guy. Regards, Priscilla Clark, Tranquility Farm" http://www.tranquilitytarmtbs.org/

6 More Saved!

Thanks to all the wonderful name suggestions we received from the Auction Rescue donors. The following are the names we have chosen that best fit the equines. 581-Joe, 582- Banjo, 583-Hershey, 584-Oliver, 585-Chloe, 586-Ro-Ann, 587-Motey-Mote, 588-Tucker, 589-Paleface.

Today was a little slower in some ways than normal, but still very busy! We tried out our new clippers on Dottie, and she looks amazing. So much more comfortable now, she still had on her winter coat, and with the days hitting mid 70's she was pretty warm.

Before and After, you can see why she we call her a "wiener" horse, long body but no legs. She looks a little odd, the newspaper describes her as a "cartoonish looking creature" but we really love her a lot!

We got 5 more horses and 1 donkey turned over to us today by Butte County Animal Control. They will be transported to our main facility once the donkey is gelded. Below are pictures of the horses, we don't have a picture of the donkey yet. These equines cannot be adopted out in Butte County as most of them were seized and we do not adopt equines into counties they were seized in.

Emmy

Reeves

Pouncy

Macie

Shya

We got all of our available horses listed on Petfinder now, there are 33 on there, and they all need homes! Please consider adopting one today. Please forward our available page onto your friends that may possibly be able to adopt a horse! We have a lot of really nice horses available, we will have them evaluated soon and will have their riding abilities posted.

Also we are working on updating our adopted page (Happy Tails) and soon we will have all of our '08 adopted equines on there for you to enjoy looking at.

Another Auction Rescue!

The day started out with loading Dusty and Blaze and taking them out to the vet for their surgery. They put them in a paddock so they can move around a lot before they have their surgery. They seemed very happy and content there. We'll keep you updated on their progress, their surgery should be tomorrow and then they will have a week or so of recuperation at the vet.

From there we headed out to pick up a pony who was no longer welcome due to his murderous tendencies towards baby goats and sheep. He would stomp them to death, he must have felt intimidated by them, whatever the case, he was no longer welcome. It looks like we might already have a home lined up for him at Personal Pony's LTD in Nevada. In that case he would have a wonderful forever home and spend his days with kids that need a horsey hug.

While we were heading out to pick up the pony, we were coordinating our first ever volunteer auction rescue out of state. We had a wonderful volunteer that went to the Fallon Livestock Exchange (livestock auction) who successful outbid the killer buyers. We were able to rescue every single horse at the auction. There were only three, but the killer buyers went home with empty trailers today! We saved all 3 for only $676.37, or roughly what the feedlot would have wanted for 1 of them. These horses were saved in the same town as the feedlot, and there were 3 known killer buyers (including feedlot workers) at the auction bidding on the horses. Until we can arrange transport the horses will be staying at the auction yard. We're hoping this Thursday or maybe next Monday, but the sooner the better.

To top our day off, Tractor Supply in Yuba City did a BBQ benefit for us on Sunday to raise money. They brought the money out today, it was greatly appreciated, thank you so much! We used the money to buy a great pair of Wahl Cordless clippers for trimming the horse's. It will come in very handy! It was definitely needed, and now our horse makeovers will be even better. Hey Becky, our groomer volunteer, you are wanted and needed more than ever and we have a great tool for you to play with!!! You can really spiff them up now!!!

Busy Monday

- Wow, what a day it was yesterday! We're still trying to recoup from it all, the day was long and so many things happened. It was so nice having all the volunteers there with us. It really helped out tremendously, and it's always nice to have moral support.
There were 53 equines at the auction. We wish we could have brought them all back to the rescue with us. The auction was over before we knew it and we had gotten 5 horses, 1 pony and 1 mule. 2 of our volunteers rescued 2 horses as well with their own money. We headed out to load everyone up into the trailers. We felt sad that we had not saved more, but the auction was over and all the horses were sold. We still had some money for horses. As we were getting into the truck to move it over to the loading area some people came up to us and said that they got a horse and they could not catch her and they were pleading for us to take her, they wanted what they had paid for her: $275. We said yes and now had 8 equines.
When we got over to the loading area and were waiting to load, the buyer in front of us could not find the horse they had bought. After a very long time it was finally decided that the tags had been messed up and apparently they did not get a horse, and the horse that was left was not the horse that the guy had bought. The poor horse really needed help and we were asked if we would take that one too for the price they'd paid. Again, we said "Yes" and now we had 9! It's amazing how many horses had to be rescued within a couple hours after they bought them at the auction... Just imagine within the first couple months. The perfect match is everything, and it's hard to get at an auction.
We got all the horses and the mule loaded up and we began the slow trip back to the ranch. Everyone unloaded and got settled in very nicely, and before long they had been fed and watered. 4 of the volunteers chose to spend the night at the ranch, and bright and early everyone was out playing with the horses.
The total funds spent at this auction was $3125 with tax and auction fees. 9 equines were saved, leaving us with a balance of $1360 for the next auction rescue. We are currently in the planning stages of our next auction rescue, it should be very soon. We'll keep you posted for the 2nd stage of the Auction Rescue!
Thanks to generous donors like yourself these horses were saved!Below are pictures of all the equines that we rescued from the auction, we should have them up on Petfinder by the end of this week and evaluated for riding ability.

We also had some new volunteers come out today and work really hard cleaning the round pen, it's now manure free after the 9 horses spent the night in it. We always put new horses in the round pen when we get in after dark so they can settle down without fear of them escaping. They are all now out in a bigger pen and it's nice to have our round-pen free of horses again. A big "Thank You!" to Cathy, Brianna and Faith. In the picture they're grooming the 2nd horse we got after the auction ended, he was literally melting with all the attention, he could barely keep his eyes open.

We also had some visitors this afternoon, they toured around and met all the horses. They also really enjoyed watching the babies play! They are hoping to be able to get a horse soon, but they want to be completely set up and ready when the time comes.

We must add the newest horse on the ranch. He's a member of the International Star Registry, and he let us choose our very own star to name after all of our rescued equines. His coordinates are: Pegasus 21h 15m 23.57s 18 11' 59.89" for all you star gazers. Let us know if you can spot it! Our star's name is NorCal Equine Rescue, now NER has reached the stars! Thank you so much for the kind gift Judy, we really appreciate it! She gave it to us right after the auction, she was one of the volunteers that went with us.