by Bonnie Hammond | Nov 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
Earl is a 10 year old Arabian stallion, surrendered to SAFE by his owner who has stage 4 cancer. He and his late wife owned the horse from the age of 2, and kept him as a pet, with little handling and no discipline. Earl has always has gotten his way and is very pushy...
by Bonnie Hammond | Nov 9, 2020 | Flynn
Errol Flynn is a POA pony in his mid-20s who was surrendered to Animal Control by his owner who could no longer care for him. Flynn’s right eye is badly infected, and vascular mass is growing over his cornea. Unfortunately, this has gone untreated for the past year....
by Bonnie Hammond | Nov 8, 2020 | Sienna
Recently, Sienna showed up lame at the walk. Assuming she had an abscess, we soaked her foot and kept it wrapped in an Epsom salt poultice. When she seemed to stop favoring that foot at the walk, it appeared that she was still off on her front left at the trot. With...
by Bonnie Hammond | Nov 8, 2020 | Teddi
Sweet, smart Teddi seems to be doing well, despite some complications from her previous surgery. Over the summer, it seemed that her lameness was much worse and noticeable at the walk even. Since then, Teddi has been on “stall rest” in her small paddock and seems to...
by Bonnie Hammond | Nov 8, 2020 | Billy
Billy seems to have settled into his new life at SAFE. He’s so quiet in his stall, you could walk right by him with noticing he’s there! He loves his salt block, his meals of timothy and doesn’t seem to mind that volunteers are always fawning over him through his...
by Bonnie Hammond | Nov 8, 2020 | Alder
from Kaya M. Alder continues to impress me with how accepting he is of new experiences and learning new things. I think I have been underestimating him! I was a little nervous about the clinic because we’ve never ridden with so many other horses or horses from...
by Bonnie Hammond | Nov 8, 2020 | Barb
by Kaya M. Sweet Barb is coming along so well with her training! She started the last clinic weekend a little dull and Joel explained that she needed to get her feet a little freer so that she could voice her opinion. We worked a lot on freeing up her feet and...
by Bonnie Hammond | Nov 8, 2020 | Rae
Rae recently was seen limping on her front right leg. We had our vet out to look at her and she was diagnosed with white line separation. We treated Rae four times a week with Venice Turpentine, but when out farrier came out a week or so later, she noticed a large and...
by Bonnie Hammond | Nov 4, 2020 | Announcement
by Debbie M, our hay bank admin The Year 2020 is going to go down in the record books for a number of reasons. One of those reasons, unfortunately, is the record number of job losses due to layoffs or shutdowns during the global pandemic. This has put countless...
by Bonnie Hammond | Nov 3, 2020 | Hazel
We were asked to help with Hazel just a day or so before we lost Callista, so she is part of the SAFE herd in Callista’s memory. Hazel’s 70 year old owner passed away, leaving his 90 year old mother responsible for his estate and his horse. She lived on 20 acres, and...
