He is her first true love…she is his everything. The love story started with a long distance romance, and it continues thousands of miles away in Maryland. While Grande has settled into his new life as a treasured friend to Brianna, he ha…s also made it pretty clear that at twenty years young he has a full life yet to … Read More
Wyatt home for the Holidays
With Hanukkah safely tucked away for a year…and the countdown to Christmas a week away, we celebrate all of the lucky horses who now have a home for the Holidays. Red Bucket joyfully celebrates 92 forever homes found, the horses that we have served, and the adopters who tuck them in every night, pinching themselves….grateful for the soft warm nickers, … Read More
Red Bucket Equine Rescue Forever Homes Found #90 and #91- Elliot and Riot
The 25 horse…donkeys, drafts, yearlings, and weanlings who live in the east paddocks, all lined up attentive…and intrigued. They were oblivious to the fact that breakfast was abou…t to be delivered and seemingly unaware of the thin ice that floated on their waterers or the frost that clung to the rails of their paddocks. The trailer (generously donated by our … Read More
Red Bucket Forever Home #89- Bentley
He had been so starved that we weren’t sure that he would survive the first weekend. Just backing out of the trailer and the few wobbly steps to his new stall seemed to tax him completely. The anatomy of… every vertebrae painfully visible…exposed in such a way that it left not only him vulnerable, but those of us who cared … Read More
December 2013 Adoption Celebration: Kingston
Walt Disney once said, “All of our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” How true this quote has become for two very lucky “dreamers,” one a girl with a dream to love and own a horse, the other the horse with a dream to have a forever home. Brianna and her mother Anne-Marie, … Read More
November 2013 Adoption Celebration: Rosie
The first thing you notice about Rosie is her “great big eyes,” says Linda George. Linda is Rosie’s adopter and describes her as “so cute.” She is a paint stock quarter horse with four white stockings that go up to her knees, and she has a dished face, like an Arabian’s. Red Bucket rescued Rosie from a hoarding operation. She … Read More
Forever Home Found: Wyatt
It was barely after day break; I was head down, multitasking, as I hustled to get my morning turn outs completed, monitor feed changes, and check on the condition of little Tosha’s recent bandage change. Irene stopped me in my tracks, her voice cracking through palpable emotion. She was clearly distressed. Wyatt had been adopted, and he was one of her … Read More
October 2013 Adoption Celebration: Willow
How do you define the word LOVE? The answer became quite clear for a pair of hearts and souls that are now bonded together forever and share what some may call two hearts that almost beat as one. Sometimes you are in the right place at the right time and an instant connection can blossom into something unbelievable, almost like … Read More
September 2013 Adoption Celebration: Gulliver
Red Bucket was glad it could accommodate one more “hoarded” horse in desperate need of food, shelter, medical attention and most of all LOVE. From the moment Gulliver stepped off of the trailer at the Red Bucket Ranch, his spirit came to life and he immediately began to flourish. He is the type of horse that so many rescue … Read More
Forever Home Found: Hobby
Red Bucket Equine Rescue Forever Home # 83- Hobby Cathy had been a good daughter, received good grades, and been lucky in that she had good parents, and a delightful childhood. Her horses had been part of the memories that she has carried in her heart, and from time to time they had percolated by way of tears, when she … Read More