by Kaya Mead | Nov 12, 2020 | Piper
Piper is a riding horse! While she’s still technically in training and on hold, Piper is proving herself to be quite a capable riding partner. In the beginning of her training, Piper was a little dull and didn’t move forward very easily. She has since overcome a lot...
by Kaya Mead | Nov 12, 2020 | Pippi
Pippi is growing up right before our eyes! In the last clinic, Pippi got her first real taste of groundwork. It’s clear that she is quite herd bound and since she’s been surrounded by people her whole life, has little respect for human personal space. During the...
by Kaya Mead | Nov 12, 2020 | Lacey
Lacey Lacey Lacey…what a difficult pony you can be! Lacey participated in the recent Joel Conner clinic and gave the small, social-distanced audience quite a show, bucking and squealing away at the rope. It looks like it’s going to be a long journey for...
by Kaya Mead | Nov 12, 2020 | Merry
After 30 days of professional training and working in SAFE’s horsemanship program, Merry is now a riding horse! She is still very green and can have a bit of an attitude at times, but she’s progressing quickly through training and is ready for an advanced rider who is...
by Kaya Mead | Nov 12, 2020 | Artie
Little mister Artie sure is becoming a gentle little gelding! While he still has quite a ways to go in his training, the amount of improvement that Artie has shown is incredible. It wasn’t that long ago that Artie was the wild stallion kept in the round pen because he...
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...
