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Age: 2 Year Old Mare
Color: Dark Bay
Breed: Quarterhorse
Status: Pulled from the KP, we thought she was a small yearling. She was very skittish and after her vet day, we determined her to be a 2 year old – just stunted in her growth due to lack of nutrition.
She has an enlarged hock due to an injury from when she was younger. But x-Rays showed all the joints are healthy and the size is due to the way it healed. She has a strong outlook as a healthy horse – all be it small.
Age: 5 Mos Filly
Color: Bay
Breed: Quarterhorse
Status: Pulled from the KP with her mother. She is in the weening process. She is healthy and spunky. Rought start to her life, but she will make you a terrific forever heart horse.
Age: Yearling Mare
Color: Bay
Breed: Quarterhorse
Status: Pulled from the KP, she has beautiful black mane. She is the most terrified horse we have ever brought in. Obvious some damage done – especially hates men. We will put her through our process and help her to trust again. She is stable and healthy though.
Age: 4 Month Old Filly
Color: Sorrel
Breed: Quarterhorse
Status: She was rescued from the KP and was separated from her mother who shipped. She was not weened – just taken. So she has a long way to go before we allow her to be adopted. But she could be your horse!
Age: 14 Month Old Mare
Color: Dark Bay
Breed: Anglo Arabian
Status: Getting ground work and desynthesizing training. Not rideable yet, but has a strong motor, great confirmation and loves to run. she will make a great performance horse. She is very obedient. She has been with us since she was 10 months.
Our followers (donors)named this one. They chose it because of its strong, western heritage.
He is about 4 to 5 months old. And has a lot of personality. We rescued him as part of a group being sent off for shipment.
We will start his process. As you can see we have already got a halter on him for the first time. And clear his medical before allowing him to be adopted.
We were listening to a Frozen 2 soundtrack and the song “Show Yourself” came on and so her name became Idina – the name of the actress singing the song.
This young lady came in with other weanlings. She was taken from her mother early and it shows. She is very scared having been through so much so young. She is a beautiful perlino with ice blue eyes.
Her owner simply could not afford to take care of her. We rescued her on her way to be shipped off to a sad ending.
She is about 5 months old and is healthy, yet needing lots of groceries.
MEET JESSE
This colt was rescued September 2022. He came in with 2 other weanlings (not part of the same herd). He is about 5 months old and very scared. He was surrendered by an owner that could not handle a young one.
Jesse’s new home is in South Texas. He lives with another OTT and is doing great.
Meet Smith. 
This guy arrived July 4th along with his best friend. Â From his brand, we found out that he is a true wild mustang captured by the BLM. This 11 year old has some issues. As you can see, he needs lots of groceries.Â
After going through medical, we found that he has a ton of sand in his system. Up to his ribs! Â We believe this is the case of the weight issue.Â
Smith and his buddy Wesson (ready to be named by you through donation) are both respondingÂ
well to their treatments and showing to be gentle around several different peopleÂ
They are halter broke and working to rebuild their mustang bodies. 
Want to meet Wesson his best buddy? Click Here.Â
Meet “Wesson”. 
This guy arrived July 4th along with his best friend. Â
From his brand, we found out that he is a true wild mustang captured by the BLM. This 11 year old has some issues. AS you can see, he needs lots of groceries.Â
After going through medical, we found that he has a ton of sand in his system. Up to his ribs! Â We believe this is the case of the weight issue.Â
Wesson and his buddy Smith (ready to be named by you through donation) are both responding well to their treatments and showing to be gentle around several different people. 
They are halter broke and working to rebuild their mustang bodies.Â
Once they get back to weight we will begin the other care like teeth floating and hooves.Â
Want to meet Smith his best buddy? Click Here.Â
Meet KinleyThis mare was rescued from a kill pen in late March 2022. She come to us with all kinds of medical issues and was in obvious pain. Although coming from a “wild” environment, meaning no humans, she responded to our attempts to connect fairly quickly. Likely due to her pain.
She is about 25 years old and as gentle as they come. And she will make someone a terrific pasture pet. She already nuzzles you if you stop touching for more attention.
Like all of our rescues, she has to go through a full medical plan before she can be
considered for adoption. She has never had her teeth or hooves done that we can tell, for example. And that is standard procedure for us upon intake. In the picture on the below, she has just gotten her first medicated bath. Kinley had tons of ticks and a belly full of worms. But she is improving little by little as you can see in her photo above.
But it’s better than As you can see from the picture on the left taken at the lot, she had no clue what was happening to her. This young lady is 8 months old pulled from a kill pen with Angel.
Sadly, like many coming from the pens, Ms Lola has pneumonia. So lots of medicine and treatment for her. And boy does she need some groceries! So if you want to help provide for her vet and feed bills, then please donate.Â
This little lady will be with us for a bit as she needs a lot of work before she is ready for her forever home. But if you are interested in being her forever home, then let us know.
UPDATE: Lola has passed medical clearance and has begun her training. For now, it is halter and people trust training. Also starting to work on lifting legs so we can start hooves. She is fully vaccinated and has her noggins.
She now lives in Texas with a great family and their donkey named Milly.
Meet Angel
Angel’s owner had a pasture full of horses. For some
reason, we he died he had placed in his will to send the horses to a direct ship lot (better known as a kill pen.) Evidently, he did not want anyone to have his horses.
These horses are wild for sure. Not used to humans or touch and very scared. Angel (named by one of our donors) was pregnant when we pulled her out (as you can see in the picture). And she had her baby 4 days later.
Angel will have a long journey ahead. We will have to start her as a wild horse. But she will be a good horse ready for her forever home soon.Â
Follow her story on Tik Tok.
UPDATE on Iron Pebble
The colt, named Iron Pebble, has had a rough start. Mama had pneumoni, was malnourished and never vaccinated. So baby was born with several abscesses in his lungs and his arteries never fully developed. We were not able to get an IV in for medicine becasue of his veins and had to try as much medicine as we could. Sadly, after 10 days, one of the accesses broke free and quickly spread thoruogh his body. Catherine sat with his head on her lap for 3 hours and then he got up and gave her a kiss, went over to say bye to his momma and then laid down for the last time.
We are grateful for the 10 days he got to sodden on this Earth with us. It was 10 more days than he would have had otherwise.
Meet Boomerang           His mama died when he was 6 weeks old and the owner didn’t want to take care of him, so Boomerang ended up in a kill pen in Arkansas. When we picked him up, it was obvious he had a lot off issues. So we took him straight to our vet. Sure enough, he had an ulcer in the right eye, pink eye in both eyes and a massive amount of worms in his belly. 
Boomerang was our first colt rescue. We have never seen such a depressed horse. He barely moved and his eyes were so sad – filled with hopelessness. Thankfully, our followers and supporters responded and we were able to keep him in quarantined 24-hour care for his first 10 days. Â
The result? He recovered nicely…
And found his forever home in California! And he has some new friends. 
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Sometimes we get to the horse before they get in real bad shape as is the case with Ms Dixie. As you can see, her owner moved and was not able to see her but a couple of times a month. Credit to the owner, who relied they could not take care of her and contacted us before she got bad.
She looks lot better after a clean up 🙂
Our 3rd Tennessee Walker to rescue, Midnight was not as much of a hard luck story as many of our horses. His owner, realizing he could not longer afford to care for him, contacted us. We gave the owner some money to help cover the debt acquired from owning horses and brought Midnight into our care.
He has been described as a gentle giant. He stands tall when alert. While he was not a victim of abuse, he had been a pasture
dweller for several years. The owner told us he was 5, but we could tell when we arrived (by looking at his teeth) he was much older. Sometimes owners fear will will not take them if they are “old.” As you can see from his rescue pic above, he was not getting any loving care.
Upon his first medical exam, we confirmed his age and had his teeth floated. He has been on a joint supplement with hisgrain everyday. While he is slow to trust and is head shy, he does stand patient for a ferrier. We always have their hooves inspected and trimmed as part of the regular care.
After a series of ground work sessions, we got him under saddle. and he exhibits clambehavior. We even put one of our daughter son him to show his demeanor.
Midnight is ready for his forever home. Click Here to Adopt
We sometimes let our followers name the rescue, but Buddy chose his own name. We got suggestions from you and then asked him what he thought and here was his answer….
This poor guy showed serious signs of abuse. It was obvious he had been struck many times – and one time across his head over the eye – which left his eye like you see below. While he got some light into the eye, he could not see any images And so people gave up on him because he is now half-blind and “no-good.” We got him from the kill pen in Bowie, TX.
Buddy had developed pneumonia in the kill pen from being crammed in with the other horses. It was a long, slow process. It took 2 months to get Buddy back to health before he could take on his eye surgery. As you can see in the picture above, his eye constantly oozed and was a fly trap. It was miserable for him. So the eye had to come out.
And thanks to our follower’s generosity, his $1,500 surgery was almost completely covered.
Buddy’s eye surgery was successful and we have been working with him to learn how to adapt to his new life with one eye. Obviously, trust was a big thing with Buddy. We could tell that it was a male that abused hime since he slowly began to let the girls get near him, but never a male.
Finally, we got him to trust even a male. And began his ground work eventually getting him under saddle. He has stayed gentle and even allows the younger one to to ride.
Buddy is ready for his forever home.
  Meet Journey 
Being a Tennessee Walker, Journey was a must rescue for us. He was 8 years old and very scared when we arrived. Took us over an hour to get him to load. And when we finally unloaded him at the stable, he was shaking like a leaf.
His home life was not one of abuse, rather his former owners just could not afford to care for him. He was vowed head shy and not wanting to be around people. His body needed a lot of work. Basically, his story was more of neglect than abuse.
As with all our rescues, step one is a complete physical from our friends at Reata . We always keep the rescue quarantined until we can get his vaccinations and a coggins test completed. The coggins test checks for Equine Infectious Anemia (EIA) antibodies in the horse’s blood.
For Journey, we also floated his teeth and gave his hoofs a much needed trim. It didn’t look like his teeth had ever been floated.
Journey’s work was not as extensive as normal. Someone who had seen his story on our Tik Tok feed who loved Tennessee Walkers (even had 3 currently) and wanted to be part of his rehab story. We got an application to adopt right away.
Journey’s new home is in Mississippi. A full 8 hours from where he was rescued. He is doing great and his new owner and protector gives us regular updates on his progress and life at his new home.
Another success story made possible by your donations and support 🙂
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 Shelby is quite the story. She was pregnant when we rescued her. thats probably the motivation. We cared for her until Layla was born. (Yes, Layla is the inspiration of Layla Rose Ranch.)Â
So, after several vet visits and treatments and medicines, its apparent that her being used as a board mare starting at age 2 ruined her hind quarters nerves.
Shelby has been diagnosed with DSLD and is not able to be ridden anymore and therefore we could not allow her to be adopted. Â So she has became a permanent resident with us.Â
We are not sure how much time she has left, but we will make sure it is as joyful as possible. 
Age: 4 Year Old Mare
