This is Sahara, our newest equine angel. She came to Charlie’s Angels Horse Rescue as a surrender, due to financial reasons. She is a 19y.o. Arab x Warmblood, approx 15.2hh, who has wonderful manners and has had fantastic training. Due to past injuries, she can now only be lightly trail ridden, which she really enjoys. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘adopt’
28 Jan
Shona and Joleena Find a Forever Home
Well, this is big news. Shona and Joleena are our longest-term residents, having been with us for two years, as our first rescues after the initial dogger yard rescue of four horses that began this charity. We rescued them from a slaughterhouse holding yard, along with their two-month-old colts at their side. They had come from [...]
24 Jan
Oscar Has Been Adopted!
Rescue pony, Oscar, has been adopted into his forever home! Oscar came to us in September 2011 as a two-year-old stallion with extreme stallion behaviour. His people couldn’t keep him because they lacked the facilities to keep him safely and happily and couldn’t find him a new home because of his stallion behaviour. Obviously, the [...]
10 Jan
Update on Grace
Beautiful Grace is doing much better after a lengthy abscess draining process. She was lame throughout, but not too seriously, and now she’s healing she is up for more activity, enjoying walks out and about with her foster dad, Adam, and some Parelli play. She’s still in really good condition and in really good spirits. [...]
5 Dec
The Horse Rescue Turnover Tension
Here’s the tension we face: the ‘turnover tension’. Donation history tells us that people are most likely to donate money when they see pictures of starving horses in dogger yards, horses with horrific injuries, horses at stud lined up for slaughter, and especially when there’s a ticking clock to save the animal’s life. Once that [...]
18 Oct
Jimmy Adopted!
The beautiful, beautiful Jimmy man has been adopted! Jimmy has been with us for 15 months, after he was surrendered last year. His people were told he needed an eye removed and teeth removed. They couldn’t afford to do the surgery so asked us if we’d take him. When we took him, that turned out [...]
11 Aug
August Horse of the Month: Tansy
Tansy is Miss August, and is looking for a great new home. Tansy was rescued from the Gympie dogger sales in February 2011 and narrowly escaped leaving with the dogger man. Her name means “eternal life”. Tansy is an 11-year-old Thoroughbred, ex racehorse, approximately 15.3 hh. She arrived with terribly seedy toe that had been left untreated, [...]
8 Jul
July Horse of the Month: Steve
Steve, fostering in Palmview, Sunshine Coast Our horse of the month this month is Steve. Steve is a five-year-old brumby/waler, who has been started under saddle but is green. He is a gelding and is 14.3 hands high. Steve’s life began very roughly, and he nearly starved to death as a young foal. He was [...]
7 Jun
Horse of the Month: Molly
Molly is approximately ten years old and a Shetland pony mare. Her story goes that she was left tied up on the side of the road for months, while the council checked on her regularly. Eventually, they approached a local man who bred Shetlands if he wanted her. She was with him for around a year, [...]
