Swingin’ D Horse Rescue
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We hear it every time a prospective adopter comes to meet our horses: “How did this horse end up on a kill lot?” We know they’re not asking what the horse did to deserve slaughter, because that’s not even possible. But how could such a seemingly sound and well-behaved horse get condemned to slaughter? It’s […]
I’ll be the first to admit, I didn’t know what the hell I was doing when I started Swingin’ D Horse Rescue. If I’m being totally honest, I still don’t know what the hell I’m doing a lot of the time; but I understand that inexperience could literally kill a horse, so I live and breathe […]
https://swingindhorserescue.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/09122019-ADOPTCHANCE.mp4 The more time I spend with Chance, the more content I am to just keep him around forever. He’s such a sweet, funny horse – curious and fascinated by his humans. Anything I’m doing is the most interesting thing Chancey can imagine, so he’s happy to be right by my side. When we first […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]