Horse Highlight: Sporty Gentle, sound and kind-hearted…with remarkable work ethic and adored by all at Red Bucket…Sporty enjoys performing the immediate task at hand paired with impeccable ground manners, making him one extraordinary horse! Sporty is at the top of Red Bucket leadership team member Michelle Mendez’s “Why I love Redheads” list! He is a handsome chestnut quarter horse with … Read More
Red Bucket Equine Rescue #374 – Blotzer
It is unimaginable to comprehend the torment and agony that Blotzer experienced. Certainly there are signs of the abuse that preceded a traumatic blow to his eye that left him not only permanently blind, but suffering. Seriously injured, he was left abandoned in a dry riverbed, defenseless, terrified, and in what our vet described as “excruciating pain”. He suffered for … Read More
Red Buckets Fifth Annual Ruby Red Gala
You are cordially invited to Red Bucket’s Fifth Annual Ruby Red Gala on Saturday, November 11th. Get a VIP tour and meet the horses while enjoying appetizers, sushi, and a cocktail! Participate in the amazing one-of-a-kind Silent Auction, and be delighted with a delicious dinner and inspiring live music! Most importantly, support our lifesaving work! Tickets are now available see … Read More
Kolcheck Update
Kolcheck is thoroughly enjoying his life as a wanted horse. His adopters gush that he is loving and affectionate, that he adores his giant-sized paddock and customized shelter complete with…you guessed it, an enormous “comfort stall mattress”. Watching him turned out in pasture is like watching a beach ball bouncing on the sand; joyful, unrestrained, and free. He relishes his … Read More
September 2017 Horse Highlight: WillPower
Debonair, dashing and a benevolent elder gentleman are some of the affectionate ways ‘WillPower’ is described by those who know and love him at Red Bucket. WillPower’s owner had owned him for a great number of years. When he was down to his last 1⁄2 bag of feed, they decided to put him down instead of continuing to care for … Read More
Grande Update
Once upon a time, he had been valued…and considered to be of value. He had been imported from Europe, was highly trained, and loved…so he thought. Then he became a bit older, and was no longer as useful as he once was. He was relegated to an old bull pen and there he stood, all but abandoned; without shelter, companionship, … Read More
Hansel Update
While some transformations have the abruptness of skeletal to robust, emaciated to well-fed, coarse to sleek…many might not visually be startling until one looks at an eye that has softened and is no longer skeptical and wary. Hansel was initially saved out of a kill pen by a private rescuer, colleague, and friend of ours. While he came to us … Read More
Forever Home Found: Galway
We first introduced him four years ago…..and we started by saying that he is safe. He is by all accounts spectacular. A bay Hanoverian…4 equally matched white socks and a noble, intelligent, and sensitive face, sporting both a blaze…and an expression that suggests a world of hurt, betrayal, ……..and today, relief. He is a trained hunter, dropped off (by his … Read More
Bilek, a final farewell….
He was the very first horse that we rescued when we moved to Red Bucket exactly five years ago today. In a word, he defined the empowerment that owning our ranch stood for. He had been starved and roped until he lost the will to fight…or the bleeding rope burns became so painful that he just froze when the rope … Read More
Roxy Update
It is unimaginable that a horse would be considered a stray. Defenseless, endangered, betrayed and abandoned…left to forage through trash cans with the threat of traffic rushing by. With such a violation, we can only imagine what happened prior to the point of the inexcusable. What we know today is that the scars are healed, the trust rebuilt, and the … Read More