Sasha — Feb 8, 2011

From Megan: Hello everyone–sorry I’m not as good at keeping up with posts here as I should be. I wanted to share a quick update on Sasha. She had about a year off and back in September we started into work. Once we got back to full work in December (including…

Baxter Update — Feb. 5, 2011

It’s been a while since we have given a Baxter update. Baxter is a tough nut to crack, he’s clearly got a strong distrust of people and shows clear signs of being abused. However, he’s also retained a lot of his stallion-like behaviors from being gelded late in life…

Sinatra Update — 1/27/11

Our volunteer Sara stopped in and visited Sinatra on Thursday and also got a chance to watch him being ridden in a jumping lesson.  He is just as cute a button jumping, and what was on his stall but FOUR BLUE RIBBONS!  He won all four of his cross-rails classes at the…

Sinatra — Jan 22 2011, Gold Creek Jumper Schooling Show

This past Saturday Sinatra attended his first show under saddle at Gold Creek Equestrian Center in Woodinville!  Sinatra has been fostered by Sundance Equestrian Center and has been ridden by a teenage girl under the guidance of trainer Katherine Wade-Easley. They…

Delilah Update — Jan 20 2011

Delilah is coming along beautifully in her training and is going walk/trot/canter under saddle. Today we put shoes on her as she has been a little footsore ever since the ground was frozen. She immediately was moving much more comfortably. The trainer called me today…

A Special Offer from January’s HeARTist

Here’s a wonderful gift from SAFE’s HeARTist of the month, Liz Stabbert Photography! A free desktop wallpaper calendar featuring Liz’s portrait of Honeycutt! Click here to visit Liz’s site and download your free gift. Our Featured HeARTist, Liz Stabbert is just going…

Welcome to the new SAFE website!

The new SAFE website debuted today. It’s located at www.safehorses.org. My hope is that this website will incorporate all the best features of our Message Board, our old website, and Facebook. This post is somewhat of a test to try out our ability to automatically…

Zan Update — Jan 12 2011

Zan and I rode last night, despite the wind. I decided to lunge her first to see how she felt with the wind whipping and let her adjust to the sound the arena roof makes with a big gust (it even made me jump the first few times I heard it!). She gave a few bucks on…

Charmeon Update

Charmeon has had some training now and lightly started under saddle but still needs more. The owner has since lost her home and sold her furniture to pay for board and training for her two horses. This is a nice mare that still has a lot of potential!

Zan Update from Jan 9 2011

I liked Zan so much I called the trainer to see if she’d come down and give me a lesson today. While Zan was a bit of a nut on the lunge line yesterday (bucking and racing around before settling in) today she gave me a quiet, rythmic trot instead. I’ve been told this…

Lexi Update from Jan 9 2011

I just thought I’d update Lexi’s thread. She’s a volunteer favorite. She’s so sweet and easy to handle. It seems like she’s always out getting groomed or loved on. I rode her a few times last fall in anticipation of her being looked at by a potential adopter (and of…

Dexter Update from Jan 8 2011

I’m sad to report that Dexter is back at SAFE. While I like to hang out with him- I was really hoping to never see his cute face again. He was a very good boy for his potential adopter for about 2 months and then he had some behavioral issues and was returned. It…

Lola & Bubbles Photos

Here are some lovely photos of Lola and Bubbles taken by Karen Wegehenkel this fall. This photo shoot included photos of Sampson and Lucky too. All of the photos can be viewed by visiting Karen Wegehenkel’s website.

Monroe Monitor: Featured Non-Profit

Featured Non-Profit: SAFE by Polly Keary Published Dec 16 2010 Editor’s Note: Each week through the holiday season, the Monroe Monitor features a local non-profit, as many non-profits depend on the donations they get during the season of giving. This week we go to a…

Honeycutt Update from June 9 2010

We were worried that Honeycutt might have troubles adjusting to his new foster home, as change is hard for him as he is such a worried, timid horse. We needn’t have been concerned, he has settled in just fine. 🙂

2010 Best of Western Washington

SAFE is honored to be among the winners of the KING‑5/Evening Magazine 2010 Best of Western Washington awards. We were voted 5th place in the category of Favorite Local Charity, out of a total of 132 nominees in that category with more than 400,000 votes cast. Thank…

Seattle Times: Animal-cruelty charges filed against Enumclaw woman

Animal-cruelty charges filed against Enumclaw woman by Christine Clarridge Originally published Friday, March 5, 2010 at 2:53 PM An Enumclaw woman who has been blamed for the deaths of more than two dozen farm animals over the course of two months was charged Friday…

KOMO-TV: Investigation finds gruesome horse neglect

Investigation finds gruesome horse neglect By Michelle Esteban and KOMO News Staff Aired on Feb 5 2009 SNOHOMISH, Wash. — A Snohomish woman has been linked to a gruesome animal cruelty investigation that was launched after one of her horses was found starved to death…

Everett Herald: Horse Rescued from Starvation Still Struggling

Horse rescued from starvation still struggling By Debra Smith, Everett Herald Writer Published Dec 22 2008 MONROE — Whisper, the horse rescued from a Snohomish field, lived through the weekend, but she’s not out of danger yet, said her caretaker. “We’ll keep trying…

Everett Herald: Cold is Cruel to Ailing Filly

Cold is cruel to ailing filly By Debra Smith, Herald Writer Published Dec 20 2008 MONROE — Jaime Taft is trying to save a horse’s life, and Mother Nature isn’t helping. The filly — gaunt and covered in sores — was rescued along with two others from a Snohomish…

KOMO-TV: Help needed for starved horses

Help needed for starved horses by KOMO staff Aired on Dec 8 2008 SNOHOMISH, Wash. — Animal control officers are asking for help caring for neglected horses after finding one horse dead and several others starving at a Snohomish home in what they’re calling the worst…

Horsebytes: Crocodile Tears

Crocodile Tears by Monica Bretherton Published Nov 4 2008 Do crocodiles cry for the victims they are eating, as legend holds? Certainly not — they have no tear ducts. Jean Elledge does, as she demonstrated again at her sentencing hearing in Snohomish County Superior…

Horsebytes: Facing the Ghosts

Facing the Ghosts by Monica Bretherton Published Oct 19 2008 Jean Elledge appeared before Judge Ramsdell at the King County Courthouse at 2:45 yesterday for sentencing on the three counts of Animal Cruelty in the First Degree to which she entered a guilty plea in…

Seattle P‑I: 9‑month sentence in case of starved horses

9‑month sentence in case of starved horses By LEVI PULKKINEN Published Oct 17 2008 Lilly was a foal when animal control officers saved her from Jean Marie Elledge’s pasture. Skinny and sick, she was still better off than the four horses found dead on the Carnation…

KING-TV: Carnation woman sentenced in animal cruelty case

Carnation woman sentenced in animal cruelty case by LINDA BRILL / KING 5 News Aired Oct 17 2008 SEATTLE — A Carnation woman was sentenced to nine moths in jail for felony animal cruelty today in a major animal abuse case involving dozens of dead and starving horses.…

Seattle Times: Carnation woman sentenced for letting horses starve

Carnation woman sentenced for letting horses starve By Nancy Bartley Published Oct 7 2009 A Carnation woman who allowed several horses to starve to death was sentenced Friday to nine months in jail, a year of community supervision and ordered to no longer care for…

Monroe Monitor Sept 23

ARTICLE IS NO LONGER ONLINE — WE ARE SEARCHING FOR AN ARCHIVE COPY http://www.monroemonitor.com/Issues/090908issue/090908B1.pdf

Seattle P‑I: Carnation woman pleads guilty to animal cruelty

Carnation woman pleads guilty to animal cruelty By LEVI PULKKINEN Published Oct 17 2008 A 57-year-old King County woman could spend a year in jail for allowing three horses on her Carnation farm to starve to death. On Thursday, Jean Elledge pleaded guilty to three…

Vigil channel 5

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Horsebytes: Can a candle light a fire?

Can a candle light a fire? by Monica Bretherton posted Apr 6 2008 “It was difficult for everyone to hold back tears,” King County Animal Control Officer Steve Fuchser said, standing at the microphone, referring back to the events of February 22nd and 23rd, when four…

KOMO-TV: ‘It was a bunch of walking skeletons’

Horse rescuer: ‘It was a bunch of walking skeletons’ By KOMO Staff Aired on Feb 26 2008 KING COUNTY, Wash. — Dozens of horses are dead or dying in the worst animal cruelty case some local rescuers have seen. A woman is under arrest after deputies seized ten of her…

KIRO-TV: Starving Horses Found At Carnation Farm

Starving Horses Found At Carnation Farm Aired Feb 26 2008 CARNATION, Wash. — Four horses have been found dead and 10 others have been seized from a farm in Carnation where no food was found for the animals, KIRO 7 Eyewitness News reported. The farm was being rented…

Seattle P‑I: Woman charged over dead, dying horses

Woman charged over dead, dying horses By CASEY MCNERTHNEY Published Feb 27 2008 A Carnation woman was charged Wednesday with three counts of first-degree animal cruelty after police found several dead or dying horses on her properties in King and Snohomish counties.…

Seattle Times: Woman booked after dead and ailing horses found

Woman booked after dead and ailing horses found By Peyton Whitely Published Feb 26 2008 A 47-year-old woman has been booked into King County jail on suspicion of 10 counts of animal cruelty after more than a dozen horses were found dead or dying on property near…

Lexi Update from Sept 26 2010

Update from Sara: I rode Lexi this weekend and she was a good girl. SAFE has done a great service to her in putting a fabulous foundation on her. She’s such a sweet girl and so easy to handle. After many rides on a very greeney this summer, riding Lexi was a fun…

Charmeon

Charmeon is a 13 year old Percheron cross mare, gray, 15 hands and approx. 1400 lbs. Her owner has lost her job and is unable to care for her two horses any more and desperately needs to find Charmeon a home. Her current owner has had Charmeon for 5 years and she…

Tia

breed: Appaloosa color: grey with blanket age: 30+ sex: mare height: 15 hh Tia was rescued from a neglect situation and is still recovering from her ordeal. She has chronic uveitis and is blind in her left eye. She came to us about 200 pounds underweight and the…

Baxter

breed: Paint cross color: white and black pinto age: 11 (born approx. 2000) sex: gelding height: 15 hh Adopted by Mandy K. of Yelm, WA. Baxter was rescued from an animal cruelty case in Skagit County in December of 2009 where he was starved to a Body Condition Score…