CUHA awards 2012 Gelding grant
The Colorado Unwanted Horse Alliance has awarded a 2012 program grant in the amount of $3,000 to continue funding for the Gelding Assistance Program for Southwest Colorado. This is the second grant awarded to FSHR from CUHA and we are gratified to be able to continue to be a resource for horse owners by providing reimbursement [...]
...read moreA horse for the holidays!
You can be a special Santa to a rescue horse this year. Become a horse sponsor, or choose an item from the horse’s wish list and your tax-deductible donation will make it come true. You’ll receive a picture of your horse enjoying his new gift after it arrives! Read on to see how it works… [...]
...read moreWelcome Pepper!
Today we welcomed a splendid gelding to our “family.” Pepper is a 15-year-old Quarter Horse gelding who is reputed by his previous owners to have been ridden hundreds of miles, both as a working horse and a cherished family horse, a kind and reliable mount for a rider of any age. Pepper came to FSHR [...]
...read moreDa Boyz!
Stormy, Tucker and Arroyo hang out in the arena All summer I have been trying to find Arroyo Royal a buddy…someone he might eventually be able to share a patch of grass with for next summer. Coco would be okay, but they really don’t think that much of each other. Disdainful is the best way [...]
...read moreEventful Farrier Day
Wow…two farriers, four volunteers, and a BUNCH of horses all over the place! Thank goodness for these faithful Tuesday volunteers!!!!!!!! (Ya see…I’m trying to get my Celtic New Year’s resolutions going early, one of which is going to be keeping this blog updated). Today we had a new farrier, Charley Blackmer, visit our facility. Charley [...]
...read moreTempo
Running with friends while fostered on a ranch I’m a beautiful 1987 purebred Arabian granddaughter of *Bask. When I came to the rescue in 2007, I was pregnant and very thin. I was being used as a broodmare, but even then the pregnancies took too much out of me, even with pelleted feed and supplements. [...]
...read moreWorking Liberty & Clover
This morning Erin and I worked with Liberty and Clover. Liberty had not been ridden since coming back from fostering with Donna, who had ridden her quite a bit. Reunited with the other “kateers,” she had been running around in the forty with them for a little more than 2 weeks, and required a quite [...]
...read morePrincess
Charging in front of the herd, Sept. 2011 I’m a 2011 filly…a weanling now (Oct, 2011). I’m halter trained and eager to be your friend. It did not take me long at all to realize I was safe at Fresh Start, where my mom and I ended up after that nightmare called the “livestock auction.” [...]
...read moreLiberty (adopted 2/20/12)
Donna rides Liberty while Freedom follows along I am a 2006 Quarter Horse mare who shows an aptitude for working cattle. I am healthy, current on vaccinations, dental work, and deworming. I trailer well, accept farrier work, love grooming and all sorts of attention. I came to the rescue in April, 2011, pregnant and [...]
...read moreBlizzard
I am a 15-year-old Arabian/Welsh Cob mare. I came to Fresh Start after my loving owner’s homestead was lost in a fire. I have always known love, and am great with children and people with special needs and disabilities. For the past three years, I have been a “Program Horse” for the informal empowerment program [...]
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