All Blog Posts Tagged 'horse charity' (43)

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Special Horses Inc. is a 501(c)3 pending non-profit organization that facilitates fundraising efforts for, and promotes awareness of, 501(c)3 equine organizations. These organizations directly rescue, foster, rehabilitate, or rehome equines in need, or are equine assisted therapy, hippotherapy or therapeutic riding facilities.

In 2009, we sponsored four fundraising events launched via our website (www.specialhorses.org) and the Chronicle of… Continue

Added by Special Horses, Inc. on January 17, 2010 at 10:00pm — No Comments

Operation Noah's Ark

Operation: Noah’s Ark

His real name is Montenapoleone – named after the most expensive and elegant district of Milan, Italy - the most important street in fashion. When we met, he was called Pepper. A 15.2 hand grey Thoroughbred gelding, he was born on the Haras Santa Maria de Araras in Ocala, FL. His pedigree is one of greatness – his dam by Alydar, and great grand-sire, Seattle Slew. He won almost $200,000 in 4 years of racing –ending up in New England. Skinny under a winter… Continue

Added by Horse Play on January 9, 2010 at 2:59pm — No Comments

Horse Play News Jan - Feb '10

The Running Horse

A Bi-monthly Newsletter from Horse Play

Issue January - February 2010

Horse Play

EIN: 05-0506340

Website: www.hptrc.org

Email: horseplayri@msn.com

Message from Aidan – the Alpha Mare

Yep, winter is here! Snow, snow and more snow – fun to roll in also I really enjoy the hot squishy food when it’s really cold. The trails are ok too but the fields are a blast – the ”roller coaster” is tons of fun to… Continue

Added by Horse Play on January 9, 2010 at 2:30pm — No Comments

2010 Horse Play Calendars and December Events

They're here!!!

Now available online - 2 Different 2010 Horse Play Calendars!

We had 2 SUPER photographers come out and play - Doug Learned

and Sheila Ryan (she has a horse here, Indy). The results are

these wonderful calendars. A great gift for any horse lover! And

tax deductible too!

Order online

2010 Wall Calendar…

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Added by Horse Play on November 21, 2009 at 6:49pm — No Comments

Modjo Working - With SPANA in Ethiopia

With Jeremy Hulme, SPANA’s CEO, off visiting our projects in Tunisia, this blog is from Simon Pope who oversees SPANA’s Communications Department.

Like many people of my generation, Ethiopia came into my consciousness about 25 years ago with the BBC reports about the drought and then the subsequent Band Aid / Live Aid initiative overseen by Bob Geldof. Now, a quarter of a century later, and with new BBC reports about droughts in the region , many… Continue

Added by SPANA on November 4, 2009 at 10:14am — No Comments

LATEST BULLETIN ON TOMMY ,direct from the'horses mouth' in Marrakech 10.30 am ,15th Oct

Hurrah, hurrah, he's doing well. The temperature/pneumonia worry is always there, but touch wood, he's fine at the moment. Still being fed by nasal-gastric tube, every two hours, day and night, but he's getting stronger every day.

They hope that soon he will develop a proper sucking reflex, but of course nobody knows just how premature he might be. Sucking is much better for the digestion than a stomach tube - all the wee scrap's 'systems' will work better.

But he is… Continue

Added by SPANA on October 15, 2009 at 5:45am — 1 Comment

STOP PRESS : MEDICAL BULLETIN ON TOMMY (SPANA clinic, Marrakech).

Well, the good news is he's still going, the bad news - it's a bit of struggle.

No surprises there I suppose - the poor wee scrap's got a lot of challenges to face.

Main problem, he's probably quite premature - though hard to be accurate as to just how much. But it translates into he's got no sucking reflex. So, to feed him we've had to do it by naso-gastric tube, every two hours. Now, you can imagine, feeding the tube across his trachea as often as that, it would be very,… Continue

Added by SPANA on October 13, 2009 at 11:27am — 1 Comment

A Foal Called Tommy - A Tale from Marrakech

You always know when something awful is happening in our animal hospital in Marrakech.

There is a sudden kerfuffle, perhaps with a certain amount of yelling – then some histrionics – usually involving grown men and women weeping copiously.

So it was last night just as darkness began to descend. Oh, but I forgot to say, at the same time as the histrionics our team goes into overdrive, while at the same time depicting a stony-faced… Continue

Added by SPANA on October 12, 2009 at 8:17am — 3 Comments

SPANA in China

Now don't get me wrong - I just love Chinese food. Normally that is. But in North West China it's a bit different from the stuff we get here at home - which people tell me is generally southern or Cantonese cooking.

Apart from aquariums all round the restaurants' walls containing the main course (but still alive!) the food is hugely spicy. So, I suppose if Mexican cooking is your thing, it's the very place for your next vacation, but for me, I find eating a breakfast which leaves… Continue

Added by SPANA on October 1, 2009 at 6:30am — No Comments

The Working Donkeys and Horses of Mali, West Africa

We’ve done pretty well for rain this year.We were away for the only nice week in June in Brit, and then we were in Ethiopia – rained every day, and now Mali. And guess what. Rainy season.

Deluges of the stuff. Flooding the streets and open sewers of Bamako, and running orange-brown torrents off the hills and down into the river. What a river it is too. Over half a mile wide in the city, the swirling pewter-grey mass of water sweeps under the two bridges where the traffic sits… Continue

Added by SPANA on August 1, 2009 at 8:30am — No Comments

Louie got adopted!

He went to an eventing home last week and won't be broken until next year! This picture was taken the day he left us.

Added by Lori Tankel on July 30, 2009 at 10:00pm — No Comments

From Canada to Ethiopia

Just returned from a wonderful ten days in Canada - ostensibly to see family, but how can you go to Canada without getting stuck into the wonders of nature ?

So we spent lots of time in the woods, looking for bears, wolves, moose and all the other wonderful creatures of the northern latitudes - especially exciting for someone who likes to paint or draw them.

It's not only the big, sexy numbers that give pleasure - for us, watching dragonflies flitting over the lily-covered… Continue

Added by SPANA on July 20, 2009 at 9:00am — No Comments

Noel, The Christmas Pony

December 4, 2008

As I was working around the barn today, enjoying the treat of a sunny but chilly day, I received a call from an SPCA constable; could I attend for a seizure right away? I finished up quickly, then headed out to an address in a rural area near Chilliwack. Responding originally to an abandoned dog complaint, the officers had rounded up a number of dogs, left behind in the wake of a tenant moving out. Apparently these folks left in such a hurry, they "forgot"… Continue

Added by Kevan on July 13, 2009 at 11:35am — 2 Comments

Bambi, the story of one of our rescues

I copied this from our website, it is the story of Bambi:

On January 25, 2009, we took in a rescue pony, a snowflake appy that our foster home named Bambi. She was in a bad situation that was only going to get worse, underweight and blind in one eye. She was very sweet upon arrival, but due to being isolated from other horses for who knows how long, she became very herdbound at the foster… Continue

Added by Lori Tankel on June 30, 2009 at 9:29pm — 5 Comments

Louie, our latest rescue update!

Louie is making so much progress! He is now a "pocket pony"...it is hard to believe that just a month ago he would not look at us. Now he is the first one to greet me at the gate! He nuzzles and gives kisses! Today he got his feet done and was a good boy! Every day he makes progress! I lunged him and he now stands for baths and fly spray! We hopefully have someone interested in adopting him! Keep your… Continue

Added by Lori Tankel on June 24, 2009 at 10:00pm — 1 Comment

The Heart of the Sahara

Last time I was talking about our veterinary clinics in the North of Tunisia, and the bleak arid zone around Kasserine in the centre. But of course, Tunisia stretches way down to the south - in fact it's shaped like a dagger pointing right at the heart of the Sahara.

But I love it there. It is another world, and worlds away from the forests and mountains of the north.

Our centre is in Kebili, where we were given a bit of sand by the Ministry to play with, and over the last six… Continue

Added by SPANA on June 24, 2009 at 9:03am — No Comments

The Working Animals of Tunisia

Tunisia is a strange country - in fact it's more like two countries. Many people might wonder what SPANA is doing there at all, but that's because they go there as holiday makers in search of the sun, and rarely stray out of the coastal beach resorts. There they see slick tourist resorts and villages along with the wealth and prosperity that brings to local people.

But move inland, and only a few miles at that, and you come across a totally diferent Tunisia,

Here life is… Continue

Added by SPANA on June 8, 2009 at 6:06am — 1 Comment

Help Heart Land Horse Rescue! Get an autographed photo of Calvin Borel!

www.specialhorses.org

www.heartlandhorserescue.org

We are down to the wire with just one week left of our fundraiser. Thank you to those of you who have already donated, we have raised $400 for Heart Land!

We at Heart Land are not above stooping to low levels to get your votes!

So, for everyone who donates $50, you will get an autographed photo of Calvin

Borel! And if you donate $100 or more, he will personalize it!

So stop what you are doing and… Continue

Added by Lori Tankel on May 24, 2009 at 8:05pm — No Comments

10 Hours as a Donkey - We did the London Marathon!

Hurrah, hurrah. The nightmare that was the 2009 London Marathon is over. I survived – but only just. In fact the reason it’s taken a few days to write this, is that I’m only just now walking again without sticks.

Blisters. I’m now an expert on blisters – my poor feet – I had blisters on the blisters. But since, if you remember, the whole point of the exercise was to get a worn-out, broken-down old geezer (me) to…

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Added by SPANA on May 11, 2009 at 8:00am — No Comments

With SPANA in Syria and on the Streets of London!

Last week we were in Syria – we’ve had a SPANA project there for fifteen years now. Slightly strange place, difficult, tough government, yet the people are some of the nicest in the Middle East. They are, because of the politics, very cut off from the west, so when Diana (our Education Director) gives a Teacher Training Course (we have just produced the standard curriculum text-book on animal welfare and the environment), everyone is aching to hear and try out the latest methods.…

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Added by SPANA on April 27, 2009 at 6:00am — No Comments