Latest SAFE News
Love comes in all sizes
by Bonnie Hammond | Oct 23, 2012 | Strider
photos of Aiden, by Justin Schmauser
by Bonnie Hammond | Oct 22, 2012 | Aiden
SAFE is fortunate to have so many professionals as friends, who donate their time and talents to our rescue mission. One such person, photographer Justin Schmauser, has not only produced stunning images of some of the SAFE horses, he also supports SAFE as a monthly…
Kat video Oct 2012
by Bonnie Hammond | Oct 20, 2012 | Kat
Strider Update
by Bonnie Hammond | Oct 17, 2012 | Strider
Strider’s story will be featured in an upcoming issue of Pet Connection magazine, in an article written by Dr Hannah Mueller. Our Assistant Herd Health Coordinator Chelsey Braswell took these photos of Mr Strider a few days ago. Look at his back! It’s almost…
Zanadu’s angels
by Bonnie Hammond | Oct 16, 2012 | Zanadu
Zan’s been a SAFE horse since June of 2010, and she’s come a long way from the unhandled and underfed filly she was when we first met her. Restarted under saddle by professional dressage trainer Andrea Lucianna, Zan became a superstar riding horse — willing, easy,…
Poster Hub
by Bonnie Hammond | Oct 16, 2012 | Announcement
Looking for an easy way to help SAFE? Here’s a biggie — we have several healthy and well trained horses that need to be adopted. Every horse we adopt out means that we have space to take in a new horse who needs our help! So if you live in Western Washington, you can…
New blankets for Sunny and Shasta!
by Bonnie Hammond | Oct 14, 2012 | Sunny and Shasta
Many thanks to Patti, Gael and Kirann Gable for donating new rainsheets for our resident Minis. Shasta looks fabulous in her new red coat and SunnyD is sporting the blue. They will stay warm and dry thanks to this generous donation.
Thank you, Pierce County Animal Control
by Bonnie Hammond | Oct 12, 2012 | Commentary
On behalf of SAFE and its Board of Directors, I would like to express my admiration and appreciation to Pierce County Animal Control for their recent work in seizing 39 horses in Graham, WA. While I am not privy to all of the details in this case, it is my…
Justice for Bud and Brandy
by Bonnie Hammond | Oct 11, 2012 | Brandy, Bud, Rescue Stories
Yesterday in King County Superior Court, a jury returned a guilty verdict on two counts of felony animal cruelty against the woman who starved and neglected Bud and Brandy. Here is their story. The call came late on a Sunday afternoon in February…two elderly horses,…
Straight to the horse’s mouth!
by Bonnie Hammond | Oct 11, 2012 | Announcement
Once a year we hold the Fall Into Winter Feed Drive, and ask our good friends to donate funds that will be earmarked for purchasing hay, grain, and a moderate amount of horse treats for the horses in SAFE’s care. We’ll all feel more secure knowing that our haylofts…
Chance’s History
by Bonnie Hammond | Oct 11, 2012 | Chance
Chance is a Thoroughbred cross gelding that was one of the first horses rescued by SAFE in early 2005. He was supposedly a failed bucking stock horse who was so sweet and friendly that no one wanted to see him be sent to slaughter. SAFE paid his feedlot ransom, and…
Oscar: A Perfect Gelding…A Perfect Gentleman
by Bonnie Hammond | Oct 10, 2012 | Oscar, Rescue Stories
Oscar came to SAFE as a stallion, one of 16 horses seized from a breeding operation by Pierce County Animal Control in Dec 2011. Oscar had been starved and badly neglected. As a breeding stallion, he’d lived a life of isolation and was aggressive and “studdish”…

