Is Ella your soul horse?
https://videos.files.wordpress.com/nMNDsfnN/09122019-adopt-ella-1_hd.mp4 They say that when the right one comes along, you just know. Maybe you’ve been searching for the perfect horse – well trained and well mannered; easy to catch, halter and tack; un-spookable; listens and learns. If your idea of perfection is a horse with the kind of calm, “been there, done that” attitude […]
Adopt a spark plug with potential gallore!
Adopt Mazi – 5-8-year-old Arabian mare https://swingindhorserescue.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/09122019-ADOPT-MAZI.mp4 A few things you need to know about Miss Mazi Bug: She’s a horse She’s a mare She’s cute as a li’l bug in a rug Once you fully understand those three points, you’ll have a pretty good picture of our little bug. While she acts like a […]
Slaughterproof your horse
After saving dozens of horses from slaughter, we’ve noticed some recurring themes. Kill pens burst at the seams with horses whose owners failed to give them the one thing that could save their lives: Value. First and foremost, horses are expensive. The purchase price, adoption fee or bail is the cheapest expense you’ll ever have […]
Volunteering is good for the soul
Rescuing horses is not for the lazy or faint of heart. It’s grueling, dirty work. You go home at the end of each day with sweat-soaked clothes, manure-covered boots and grimy fingernails. Why on earth would you do it for free? I ask myself constantly why any volunteer would come back, week after week, to […]
Screw you, Death! Anastasia keeps living up to her name
Anastasia literally means resurrection, and our little Ani Bug just keeps proving we named her well. Lame, dumped and forgotten on an Oklahoma kill lot with zero prospects for rescue and months of painful laminitis written all over her feet – Anastasia should’ve been dead, slaughtered and packed away in European and Asian freezers by […]
Volunteers Make Us Great
By TAMI MARLER, MBA One hundred percent of my time and attention was devoted to keeping one of our dozen horses alive this last week. The thing is, all the other horses continued to have needs. They needed to be fed. They needed to be watered. They needed their little cuts and scrapes cleaned and […]
Love Hurts: Loving a Laminitic Horse
Love Hurts Loving a horse through laminitis By TAMI MARLER, MBA I’ve only ever seen that look one time – when my husband had to tell me Fritzy, my beloved dog and spirit animal, had been run over on the turnpike. It was a look of sheer dread and horror, knowing what this latest bad […]
Whatever it takes
Whatever it takes… By TAMI MARLER, MBA Swingin’ D Horse Rescue has a policy of keeping our horses a minimum of 30 days before we post them for adoption. First and foremost, we want to make sure the horse is healthy, and free of any contagious ailment that might infect other horses. Secondly, it give […]
Will your child’s summer pony go to slaughter?
You were thrilled to find a summer camp that allowed your kids to make wonderful memories riding horses. You snapped photos and watched with glee as that faithful horse taught the priceless life lessons of courage, compassion and responsibility. But as children across America prepare to say goodbye to their loyal summer ponies, many camp […]
Shut down kill pens? Then what?
By TAMI MARLER, MBA How did closing U.S. slaughter plants help horses? When Congress shuttered horse slaughter plants across the U.S. in 2007, horse lovers hoped we’d seen an end to horse slaughter. The reality is that America became the largest exporter of live horses for foreign slaughter in the world. The kill buyers that […]
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