October 2015 Volunteer Highlight: Bethany Goodfellow

Born to Ride and Living to Give What started as an interest in horseback riding has turned into a full-fledged passion to help save horses’ lives. In learning we grow, and in growing we give. This month’s featured volunteer has grown exponentially with our group and continues to give of herself in ways that amaze us! “Bethany Goodfellow has been … Read More

Pixie Update

She is cute as a button, pretty much any little girls fantasy….and a trainers dream come true. Pixie found herself at one time trembling, bleeding, and brutalized…on an auction platform being traumatized by a kill buyer who is known for being especially heartless and barbaric. Saved by a friend….and for the last year a resident at Red Bucket, the picture … Read More

Pixie Update

It is hard to believe that this precious little darling of a pony was at an auction populated by kill buyers and hours away from the unimaginable…she had been brutalized with blood dripping from her mouth, trembling with fear and pain when she was rescued. She had the gift of three years in a loving home prior to devastating financial … Read More

Pixie – The Roll

Pixie The Pony had a good roll…..Of course she waited until after she had been groomed, buffed and shined…but we didn’t care, the way we look at it…her turnouts are hers! Besides, Pixie has a very long list of Red Riding Hoods who are lined up, curry combs and brushes in hand just waiting to primp her shiny coat, polish … Read More

Pixie the Pony – Rescue #112

Pixie The Pony was initially rescued in 2009 by our good friend Shirley Puga. Pixie, was a baby at the time…at an auction with a brute ( thankfully since banned from the Bakersfield auction )She was ” ridden ” in  with a huge maniac on her little frame in a gigantic saddle engulfing her petite and underdeveloped body. Her eyes … Read More