Royal Equine Rescue & Sanctuary, Inc.

Autumn 2007 Newsletter

 

Dear Friends and Supporters,

 

It has been a difficult yet promising summer here at RERSI.

 

Perhaps the most exciting news is our newfound working partnership with Leg-Up Counseling. For those of you who may not know, Leg-Up Counseling is a wonderful program that uses horses for equine assisted psychotherapy, equine assisted learning, and healing horsemanship. In August, Alyssa was hired on with Leg-Up Counseling as an equine professional. The program has previously “employed,” adopted RERSI horses, but now for the first time it also makes use of RERSI’s adoptable and sanctuary horses. Among the horses who volunteer, our very own Angel, has become quite the therapist. We’re so very excited to be a part of the Leg-Up team. Now we are not just humans saving horses, but our rescued horses are giving back and healing humans as well!

 

More good news is that our adoptable horses are continuing to thrive. Among our NINE adoptable horses; Sonny is in professional training with Kris Morris of Fat Chance Farm, and improving more each day. We’re confident that with Kris’s help, Sonny will soon be ready for a forever home. More great news is that, Promise, the filly who we were worried about surviving severe malnutrition and strangles last year when she came to us, is now beautiful, healthy, and so fat we had to put her on a diet!

 

Now the difficult part: winter is always a tough time for the horse market, but due to a variety of factors this year is worse that most. Hay prices are increasing this winter drastically, in addition to the large influx of horses from the closing slaughter plants. Horse rescues are needed now more than ever, but it’s difficult if not impossible to save more horses when adoptions have come to a standstill. Here at RERSI, we had planned on rescuing two more PMU foals this fall, but with nine horses waiting for homes, as well as several sanctuary horses, we have to consider the wellbeing of the horses we are currently caring for first and foremost.

 

Since opening our doors we have rescued 35 horses and counting! To continue caring for, and saving these wonderful animals, we need your support like never before. Please if you know someone looking for a horse, ask them to consider adoption first. Donations are also essential to keep our operations running. They can be made directly to us, sent to FEED PLUS to be put on our feed account directly or even sent straight to our veterinarian, Russ Jacobson, to be put on our account. We also have a wish list of fly spray, medical supplies, wormer, breakaway halters, hay, etc. Anything we can’t use ourselves is sold to support the rescue. We are a 501©3 nonprofit so all donations are tax deductible, and very much appreciated!

 

As always thank you for your continued support. Without you none of this would be possible. We’re sure if they could talk, the horses would thank you as well!

 

                                                                Yours Truly,

 

                                                                Alyssa C. Taylor

                                                                President and Development Director

                                                                Royal Equine Rescue & Sanctuary, Inc.