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 […]
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 […]
A Star is Born: Choco Escapes Slaughter to Honor American Heroes
In November of 2018, like more than 100,000 American horses just like him, Choco the chocolate overo paint gelding found himself on a kill lot awaiting a hellish transport to a Mexican slaughterhouse. Through no fault of his own, after faithfully serving humans throughout his 13- to 14-year life, he was sold at auction to […]
Florida lawmakers push for permanent protection of horses from slaughter
Lawmakers in Florida have introduced a bill that would permanently protect America’s horses from slaughter. U.S. Representatives Vern Buchanan and Jan Schakowsky said the Safeguard American Food Exports (SAFE) Act would also prohibit what has become perhaps the cruelest consequence of the shuttering of equine slaughterhouses in America: the inhumane transport of live horses to […]
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