The Horse Shelter

02/14/2025

Sending love to all our supporters. We cherish each and every one of you.

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02/13/2025

02/12/2025

She wants to be mine! And she could be yours too if you would like to become a sponsor. If you insist on exclusivity (so outdated!) don’t worry, we have 40 horses that no one has spoken for and who would be thrilled to be your one-and-only. Still time to get this done by Friday, Valentines Day. Call the office at 504-471-6179 - we make hookups easy!

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02/10/2025

Can we be valentines? Skittles is happy to have the very handsome Blizzard sharing her paddock, now that he is out of quarantine. Wait, there is a poem in the making here - valentine, quarantine, will you be mine?

You can be one of our horses’ valentines just in time by becoming a sponsor. We’ll even hang a heart for you in our volunteers’ HQ on Friday. Whatta you say?

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02/08/2025

Oakley is feeling spicy today 🌶️!! Hard not to feel good when the weather is nice!📹:

02/08/2025

We are proud to participate in the Forever Foundation’s Equine Excellence program. Many of our volunteers and staff have signed on over the years for the 60-day training challenges, following a set of guidelines with THS horses and winning awards for their outstanding achievements . So proud of y’all.

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02/05/2025

Winter has its challenges when you have a herd of 100 +/- horses and need to keep the water troughs free of ice. We can’t afford to put water heaters in all the troughs and as you can see, on the coldest nights the ice can get quite thick. On the plus side, some of the horses think it is very nice to have chilly water to drink.

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02/01/2025

Edna and Elise are our newest intakes. They are approximately 20 years old and need some groceries! Edna is very shy and appears to have some Arabian in her and Elise seems more calm. Welcome ladies!

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01/31/2025

Sheila is lovely gal who is recovering from some lameness in her front feet. She has been making progress as we have been able to give her regular farrier care. Once she is deemed to be sound enough for further assessment, we’ll find out more about her.

In the meantime, if you would like to help with her care, Sheila would be oh so grateful to have a sponsor to call her own!

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01/30/2025

Adoption Alert ‼️ We are pleased to announce our first adoption of the year! Beautiful Vienna has found her forever home with Becca! Vienna will be spending her days in a small herd with another Peruvian Paso and two mini donkeys! Thank you so much for giving Vienna a good home, Becca! Congratulations to all!

📸: TK

01/29/2025

This handsome hunk of a horse came to us in the nick of time: he had somehow managed to remove a large strip of skin from his hind leg. It was a grisly sight but nothing to faze our ace veterinarian Berkley Chesen nor ranch manager Traci Kipnes. They soon had him pieced back together and aptly named ‘Stitch’.

Despite this tough patch, Stitch is a happy boy and once he is fully mended we will find out what he knows.

Want to make him your funny valentine with a sponsorship? See our website for details.

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01/27/2025

Amigo is a special needs horse but he is also a special love. Just look at those big brown eyes! He is very huggable and friendly, and as you can see, he will never need to be blanketed.

Amigo has struggled with laminitis. He wears customized plastic shoes to support his feet. We don’t know if he will ever be comfortable enough to be used as riding horse but we do know he will make you smile every day if you decide to adopt him.

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01/24/2025

Golden girl Vienna is somewhat of a rarity for us. She is a Peruvian Paso, which is a gaited breed, and you can see it even in the way she walks with that smooth, swishy stride.

This was a frightened mare when she first arrived; she liked to keep a safe distance away, especially from photographers trying to get close for a portrait. As you can see, she has overcome a lot of that skepticism .

Vienna is 14 and has a pending adoption in the works! Big hugs to her sponsor, Leslie R!

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01/22/2025

Chowder is such a goodie that you want to just eat ‘em up, like some kind of creamy cheesecake. He is one of a gang of young chestnut boys that we are holding onto until they reach 3 yrs old, when they can safely start under saddle training. By 3, most horses have matured both mentally and physically to handle the stresses of training but our number 1 goal is to proceed with each horse as they show they are ready.

For that reason, we especially love to have sponsors for the ones who need time to grow.

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01/20/2025

We think that Oakley is going to be gorgeous when she grows up. She is a bright and happy girl who was born at and has known nothing but love all her life.

Want to sponsor her with an eye to getting first dibs or at least first hugs? Check our website for details.

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01/17/2025

Sometimes the ones you think are feral and untrained can surprise you. Here is little Knox, such a teddy bear kinda guy, who came in with several “wild” horses that were running loose on a Mesa.

He seems to have some smarts and looks to him!

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01/15/2025

Meet Elly. She is one of our oldie but goodies. She came to us sad and emaciated but as you can see she has no trouble keeping up her mature figure with proper nutrition. Elly has been with us going on 8 years - don’t you think it’s time she had her own loving home, or at least a sponsor? She is available as a companion horse.

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01/13/2025

Rocinante, someone needs to write you your own theme song…here are some lyrics. Rosie boy, you are so cute, makes us want to skip and shout. You bring joy, our baby boy, so let’s go get you a a toy…

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