Horses
Raven and Arroyo: Before!
Rescued 2/11/10 by voluntary surrender. To see their “afters,” check out their pages! “Royo” – Our veterinarian scored him at a 1.5 on the henneke body condition scale. (1 is the lowest; below 3 is considered poor; 4-7 is where you want them.) Raven – Our vet scored her at a 2 on the Henneke [...]
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My loving owner had adopted me from a rescue, but could no longer keep me, so she sadly sold me to Fresh Start. I was very sad, too, to end up at another rescue. I get along better with people than I did with the other rescue horses, and when a person came around with a halter [...]
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This gorgeous Tennessee Walker was rescued in winter, 2007. His human family loved him, and were sad to lose him. They were unable to feed him and reportedly had been through an ordeal of having several other horses confiscated. Fresh Start’s founders, the Ryan family, traded their 1993 Jeep Grand Cherokee for him, to get [...]
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Adopted! I’m a cute little red roan pony, who came to Fresh Start through the livestock auction (those who would slaughter me having been outbidden), three years old, wild, injured, wormy and a “gelding”. It took a while, but I began to trust people. They halter trained me, and I became gentle enough to be [...]
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