He is stunning, well muscled with fabulous conformation, clean legs (yup, he’s sound), friendly and trained too,…..heck, his coat even gleams. When we first posted his picture, some of the Red Riding Hoods called him “eye candy”, perhaps we should say “eye opener”. He opened our eyes, to him and his two other buddies who we will have the privilege … Read More
What difference one week makes!
What a difference one week makes! This morning Tasha, Ranger, Lola, Cindy Lee, and Mercy enjoy the sunshine and safety of their quarantine. We can’t believe how fantastic they are looking already. These beautiful and innocent horses will receive plenty of R&R, and will come home to the ranch that the horses own sometime late July. For now, the youngsters … Read More
3 Horses Rescued from a Wash
3 horses…babies really, 2 very young mares and a long yearling. The signs of abuse were there, the scarring that we have seen too often and …..rope burns. They had been abandoned in the riverbed and, taken “hostage”, if you will by the homeless that inhabit the wash. There was no food, and more alarming due to the heat, no … Read More
July 2013 Adoption Celebration: Willow (aka Shasta)
Stories always have a beginning, a middle, and an end. Somewhere along the way, the beginning of the story gets off track, derailed like a train that was headed on a wonderful journey, but ended up stranded in a desolate and frightening location with no way back to civilization. This is what happened to Shasta. Her story started out promising … Read More
July 2013 Volunteer Highlight
THE WHACKY ADVENTURES OF THE NEW RED BUCKET VOLUNTEER TEAM What do you get when you cross “Thelma and Louise” with “Vacation”? Read about the crazy yet productive antics of the newest group of volunteers to join Red Bucket Equine Rescue. When Susan Peirce told Karen McGarrah that there was a load of hay being donated to Red … Read More
July 2013 Culture Message
There is a language associated with equine rescue that I am reluctantly learning. It is more foreign to me than French, which I am a bit embarrassed to say, I never mastered. It is more guttural than the Gaelic language that I was familiarized with as a child in Ireland. While both of these languages are difficult at best, they … Read More
July 2013 Horse Highlight: Malone
Malone She is so beautiful…this big-bodied chestnut colored Thoroughbred mare with a white blaze running down her exquisitely chiseled face. Though it has been said, “beauty is in the eye of the beholder,” Malone defines what beautiful is on both the inside and the outside. Malone has successfully grown from a skittish, distrusting and abused former race horse to one … Read More
Red Bucket Equine Rescue Lola # 178 and Tiny Rescue #179
We have used too many words this week to try to explain the unexplainable. Perhaps we will allow the visual of our young mother Lola, and her very wee colt Ranger to stand on its own merit. Only a few days prior, they stood condemned to die in a most degrading and inhumane way. Yet those who will not tolerate … Read More
Red Bucket Equine Rescue #177- Tasha
She is a baby, just somewhere between 9 and 10 months. She is stunning, a pretty little black filly with an elegant stride and a delicate face. Basically she is flawless, innocent, beautiful, and sweet. And UNWANTED. One of the many unwanted horses who are shipped to slaughter every week, 110,000 thousand horses a year. Fortunately for little Tasha, we … Read More