On Carriage Horses
Today’s city carriage horses often live miserable lives working more than nine hours a day, seven days a week, pulling a heavy carriage that weighs hundreds of pounds, on busy streets in heavy traffic, pounding hard pavement, with loud frightening noises, deprived of fresh, clean drinking water, breathing toxic exhaust fumes, working in extreme heat […]
Becky’s Hope Horse Rescue
Becky’s Hope Horse Rescue (BHHR) is an all-volunteer organization, dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation, and rehoming of abused, neglected, and abandoned horses and farmed animals. BHHR was founded in 1997 in Marlin, Texas, by Sue Chapman, named in honor of the first horse it rescued, Becky. In 2014, BHHR relocated to 120 beautiful acres in […]
Donkey Sanctuaries
Donkey Rights Group Donkey Rights Group is an animal welfare group that was formed with the sole aim of addressing the plight of donkeys in Kenya and other parts of the world. According to recent statistics by the Nation Media Group, Kenya is the leading donkey-smuggling hub in East Africa. This group seeks to recognize […]
Throwaway Ponies Horse Rescue
Throwaway Ponies (TaPs) was founded by Karen Bander and her daughter, Mary, with the dream of providing a home to horses who were old, lame, and virtually unadoptable. They began their rescue mission in 2005. Very early into the process, they realized there was a need to rescue more horses, as well as donkeys, mules, […]
Peaceful Valley Donkey Rescue
“The strongest animals on earth are plant eaters. Every creature we’ve enlisted to do the work we couldn’t handle—the horse, donkey, elephant, camel, water buffalo, ox, yak—is an herbivore whose huge muscles were built from plant protein, and whose strong bones got that way, and stayed that way, from grazing on grass and eating other […]
Wild Horse Advocate and Horse Rescuer Jim Clapp
It is with a heavy heart that I share with you the passing of my friend of nearly 30 years (and also my ex-husband) Jim Clapp (1944-2016), wild horse advocate and animal savior (once on the dark side). I will add my own special stories of Jim, along with photographs and video, to this page, […]
