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 […]
Too hot to trot
Oklahoma summers are not kind to horses. The sweltering temperatures, combined with the sticky humidity, makes some days downright oppressive. You’ve heard of the heat index – the number the temperature feels like instead of the actual number on the thermometer. For horses, the numerical combination of humidity and degrees is the index – the […]
Horses and Shoes
Give your brain a jolt! Swingin’ D Horse Rescue knows our horse-loving friends work hard all day. Every once in a while, it helps to put your mind on something less stressful. We hope you enjoy our Brain Breaks! Answer 3 horses=30 means 1 horse=10 1 horse (10) and 2 pairs of horseshoes=18, so 2 […]
How would you solve the grain problem?
Give your brain a jolt! Swingin’ D Horse Rescue knows our horse-loving friends work hard all day. Every once in a while, it helps to put your mind on something less stressful. We hope you enjoy our Brain Breaks! Answer Dump grain from the 2nd bin into the 5th bin. You’ve only touched one basket, […]
Are you a superstar owner?
Take the challenge! Swingin’ D Horse Rescue believes that by creating more responsible owners, we’ll choke off the slaughter pipeline that takes more than 100,000 American horses every year. No owner is perfect, but by taking a few essential steps, you’re a superstar in our book! See how you stack up in our Owners’ Challenge! […]
It’s not just about slaughter
Like Pedophiles to a Preschool… Welcome to the Slaughter Pipeline Previous Next The slaughter pipeline presents myriad opportunities for horses to be abused and neglected by money-grubbing haulers, hubs, quarantines, trainers and others who prey on kill pen rescuers, then abuse and neglect the horses they’re paid to care for. Horses escape the kill pen, only […]
Raffle Time!
Each $10 donation gives you one chance to win Swingin’ D Horse Rescue survives on donations and adoption fees. We start incurring costs the day we rescue a horse, and those costs accumulate for a minimum of 45 days (sometimes for several months) before we offer a horse for adoption. Even when we find the […]
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