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 […]
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 […]
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! […]
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 […]
What you get when you adopt
A baby that believed humans deliver only terror and pain. A racehorse that earned thousands for its owner, only to be discarded like worthless trash. A pedigreed mare that pumped out prize-winning foals until her body could no longer be used and abused. A reliable trail horse that carried his owner across rugged terrain, traded […]
What would you do?
What would you do if you saw this horse, day after day, as you drove to and from your daily activities? Would you shake your head and drive on by? Curse his owners under your breath? Throw him some food? We get contacted by citizens concerned about horses like this all the time. They want […]
Why adopt from a rescue when I can ‘save’ a kill pen horse?
This article is not about the controversy over Facebook’s kill pen broker pages, but it’s impossible to deny they’ve had an impact on horse rescue. That’s not a criticism or an opinion. It’s a fact. Until recently, rescues could intercept a horse at auction for $300-$500. The rescue could invest $500 into rehabilitating the horse […]
Done with flies?
Horses dancing, stomping, nipping at their bodies and swishing their tails. Itchy skin rashes, infected wounds that won’t heal, bald patches from rubbing against posts, fences, or anything else that brings relief. It’s time to take up arms in the War on Flies! While we appreciate the greening of our pastures, we’re not thrilled with […]
Why the BLM’s Cash for Mustangs program makes me nervous
If you Google “BLM cash for mustangs,” you’ll find a wealth of press releases extolling the virtues of a program that will surely solve the “problem” of mustangs multiplying like parasites and threatening the American landscape. This isn’t one of those articles. I don’t claim to have all the answers, but I do know a […]
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