K & D Performance and Versatility Training

01/16/2025

Slow and steady wins this race, refeeding neglected horses.

Not too bad for 4 weeks in care War Envoy. Of course we had to start very slowly with no “grain” at all for a while, just careful hay in the beginning to avoid death by refeeding syndrome. Even then when feed is added it’s not so much grain as it is quality senior feed that’s high fiber and some balancer added.

The first month is about not losing them, and supporting them as they re-acclimate to proper nutrition. The following months are usually when the magic happens. ❤️

Top: War Envoy at KHS today. He has access to a come-and-go extra large stall bedded with shavings and more hay available in case he wants to eat outside. He is more of a come-and-go socializer, he likes to browse who’s around the farm and check the perimeter between snacks. Bottom: War Envoy on the day of rescue and shortly after in a stall at KHS’s quarantine barn.



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Adoptable horses and adoption application link: https://www.kyhumane.org/adopt/adoptable-horses/

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01/06/2025

What is even more at risk is the geldings. That’s why I had a specific training business in CA for Western OTTBs.

It was the Christmas present the horses involved didn't deserve, and one that horse racing didn't need. Last month, the Kentucky Humane Society's Equine CARE program rescued 13 horses from a Franklin County farm, including War Envoy, a former stallion and Royal Ascot winner. The news soared around s...

12/11/2024

Part 2

Social media bail pens appear to be making huge profits, but how are they impacting non-profit horse rescues?

12/11/2024

Very good read about the horrendous horse slaughter industry. STOP FUNDING KILL PENS AND BAIL OUTS!! Stop falling for the “Ships out tomorrow” scams! Let’s focus on responsible horse owners and breeders. Do the right thing owners!

Social media is littered with posts about horses who are supposedly about to be exported and rendered for meat, if the public doesn't pay the owner's "bail" price. What's going on here?

12/08/2024

Thoroughbreds are not regular horses. Do your homework and spend some time with them before you own one.

11/26/2024

Im very grateful to my dear friend of many decades, Lucia, who gave so generously! She's taken us 1/2 way to Renee's matching goal - can anyone else help to get us the rest of the way? I'm gonna be calm, I know people are traveling and getting ready for Thanksgiving and probably shopping on Friday. But we're here, humbly hat-in-hand - its hard to ignore the matching lure, right? Even $10 turns into $20!

11/25/2024

11/23/2024

Ok, I find myself actually afraid to tell you that "nothing" bad happened in the last few days! Talk about tempting fate! Getting things done tho. Supposed to be some chances of rain in the next five day, I guess we will see. But here IS some GOOD news!
Our friend and supporter Renee (sponsor for Renee and Boo) has offered one last match for 2024! She will match donations up to $1,000! I've had to hire help to make wind damage repairs, plumbing repairs including materials, tractoring for anticipated runoff, etc, and need tor replenish the coffers. (I was grateful that I HAD a helper tho, you know how hard that is!)
Many have suggested "Giving Tuesday". Renee knows that I did that the first year it was out, when donations were matched by PP. But all the matching funds they had budgeted were used up by the East Coast, and I think only a few rescues here on the west coast got any matching funds. And the donations, and matching funds were held for 30 days! I think the benefit was that if you signed up for it, your plea for donation would be seen by more people.
Since then, TGC doesn't participate. And when I went to look at it this year, it seems to have changed somewhat anyway.
I hope that when you think of holiday giving, whether it's this matching opportunity, or just any time for these last five weeks of 2024, that you will think of the horses at The Golden Carrot. We will be VERY grateful if you do!
www.paypal.me/TheGoldenCarrot - or just go to Paypal.com, ignore where they pimp you to open an account, you'll see an option to donate with your credit card, our PP addy is [email protected].
Venmo: -OConnor-01239
or mail: TGC, 33175 Temecula Pkwy, #917, Temecula CA 92592
Thank you!
THANK YOU to everyone who shared our post! With any luck, that will get new people interested in TGC, and maybe new donors! Our website, which pretty much archives the past 30 odd years, is www.thegoldencarrot.org and anyone interested in more can view our info at www.guidestar.org

11/22/2024

11/21/2024

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10/31/2024

10/22/2024

A thought-provoking read.
By Jane Smiley

Most horses pass from one human to another - some horsemen and women are patient and forgiving, others are rigorous and demanding, others are cruel, others are ignorant.

Horses have to learn how to, at the minimum, walk, trot, canter, gallop, go on trails and maybe jump, to be treated by the vet, all with sense and good manners.

Talented Thoroughbreds must learn how to win races, and if they can't do that, they must learn how to negotiate courses and jump over strange obstacles without touching them, or do complicated dance like movements or control cattle or accommodate severely handicapped children and adults in therapy work.

Many horses learn all of these things in the course of a single lifetime. Besides this, they learn to understand and fit into the successive social systems of other horses they meet along the way.

A horse's life is rather like twenty years in foster care, or in and out of prison, while at the same time changing schools over and over and discovering that not only do the other students already have their own social groups, but that what you learned at the old school hasn't much application at the new one.

We do not require as much of any other species, including humans.

That horses frequently excel, that they exceed the expectations of their owners and trainers in such circumstances, is as much a testament to their intelligence and adaptability as to their relationship skills or their natural generosity or their inborn nature. That they sometimes manifest the same symptoms as abandoned orphans - distress, strange behaviors, anger, fear - is less surprising than that they usually don't.

No one expects a child, or even a dog to develop its intellectual capacities living in a box 23 hours a day and then doing controlled exercises the remaining one.

Mammal minds develop through social interaction and stimulation.

A horse that seems "stupid", "slow", "stubborn", etc. might just have not gotten the chance to learn!

Take care of your horses and treasure them.

10/16/2024

If you choose to rescue animals, I am going to give you some sound advice - Grow thick skin and don't care what people think of you. I have known people to lose the battle with their minds and we just lost a kind, caring individual in my rescue network. Compassion fatigue is real, but nothing is worth your life. No pet. No rescue. No person's opinion. Nothing.

In rescue, that person that tells you what an angel you are and how wonderful you are every time you pick up a stray pet thrown at their door will also be the first person who tells people how your organization is worthless when you don't have space to pick up the 30th pet thrown off on their property. It's ok.

In rescue, the adopter that leaves you the five star review about how wonderful everyone has been will change that review quick when they return the pet even though you have spent hours trying to keep it in their home. One star reviews are ok.

In rescue, your friend will be your friend until you deny their application for a pet because they are a great friend but a terrible pet owner. That's ok too.

In rescue, you will answer 143 calls in a day (yesterday to be exact). But if you miss 6 calls in a row while you are in the shower, you will be the one who "never answers their phone". It's ok.

In rescue, other rescuers and random trolls will judge everything you do but never have time to pitch in a hand to help when they see something needing more attention. They will, however, have lots of time to talk about how they’d do it better while they harass and judge you. It will be ok.

In rescue, you will have to involve animal control and the police department sometimes. The people who you take pets from will hate you - and I mean REALLY hate you. Trust me, it's ok.

In rescue, pets will be put down and pets will die at the hands of abusers. We can't save them all - and that's ok. We save the ones that we can and pray for peace for the ones we can't.

I have been in the animal rescue world since 2009. I have dealt with every problem and every situation imaginable. I used to take some things to heart, then I realized - I am doing this for the animals, not for any person in this world. I have found my joy and no person will take that. If you are in rescue, don't let anyone or anything take your joy. Find peace that you will never please everyone. Find peace that you will never save them all. Never allow something you love to turn into something that ends your life.

By: Tiffany Rebecca