This is one of the sweetest and most adorable Mini’s that we have ever seen. It is unfathomable that this innocent and adorable mini would be heartlessly abandoned, tied to a fence and left without food or water…without any ability to take care of herself, or her filly. Today, this curious and irresistible pocket pony is receiving lots of TLC and extra … Read More
Red Bucket Equine Rescue #142-Cover Girl
It is hard to believe; A perfect, healthy, well bred…..baby horse would end up at a kill auction. This was the case for our new two year old registered (yes, did we mention…well bred?) grey filly. She is adorable…still a wee bit scared and insecure (no wonder), and she is a pleaser. She wants to connect, wants to be praised, and….she … Read More
Red Bucket makes Top 10 for the HB Independent
The Huntington Beach Independent put us on the front page….Identifying Red Bucket as one of the top 10 stories of the year…and one of the most compelling stories. Please feel free to share this link and cross post! Happy New Years to you all…and to all of the horses that we have loved and lost…and to those we haven’t been … Read More
Red Bucket Equine Rescue # 141- Memphis
We don’t get it…how our American horses are under valued and over bred with no accountability. She is impeccably bred, her father a World Champion Halter horse, she…..a specimen of his work. Once they were done with her she was shipped off to a kill auction. Fortunately for our new 6 year old AQHA mare, a Good Samaritan purchased her, saving her from … Read More
Red Bucket Equine Rescue # 57- Forever Home Found- Hot Rod
Christmas two years ago, Shavers ( pictured right ) was given thirty days to live. He had been a family pet for 25 years….many of those years were spent in neglectful isolation. Lonely and ignored without even basic care, Shavers family not wanting to continue to pay his board payment called a vet to have him put down. Fortunately, that … Read More
Red Bucket Equine Rescue # 140- Liam
He was first introduced to the world via internet as ” Ace “, and his little face haunted us. We silently monitored the activity that falsely represented rescue, until it became alarmingly clear that th…is little forlorn and unwanted horse was not safe….he was in harms way. We brought him home, to the ranch that the horses own, and vowed … Read More
Red Bucket Equine Rescue #139- Pretzel
Our neighbor cried when she saw her, she said that she has never seen anything like it….we have. It is hard to imagine, a five year old adult horse barely weighing in at 700 pounds. Her feet were necrotic, her coat coarse, her skin paper thin with the underlying texture of chicken wings, her eyes vacant and hollow. She had … Read More
Red Bucket Equine Rescue Forever Home Found #56- Marigold
While we maintain that the horse’s name IS very important, we have all been touched by Marigold’s reaction to Karen cheerfully calling out ” Boo Boo ” . Marigold who has been described as a little stand-offish by others, lights up…perks up…and literally beams when she hears Karen coming down the barn aisle….coming for her! All of our horses have a story, all … Read More
Red Bucket Equine Rescue # 138 Sable
Her Mother had been unwanted…and died unwanted, leaving 3 month old Sable very alone, and while she too, like thousands of other horses was technically “unwanted ” , Sable had the gift of being loved by someone who cared enough to touch her…often and gently. Sable was cared for and loved, and while human nurturing is not an adequate replacement for the love…and lessons that … Read More
Our hearts are breaking as we mourn the loss of a silent hero…
The vet who was with us when we rescued him suggested that we call him Coat Hanger, not because of the wire coat hanger around his neck that secured his fragile frame to a tree by the homeless that inhabit the ElMonte riverbed, but because he was so emaciated. His ravaged body told the tale of 25 years of constant … Read More