We provide health and training rehabilitation to our rescued horses, and then use them in our lesson and outreach programs to promote good stewardship of horses. The goal of Once Upon a Rescue is to save horses from various situations, including feedlots, kill pens, auctions, and private owners, who are in need of either physical or training rehabilitation. Through our intensive retraining program
, horses who were once thrown away can become useful and wanted horses again. Cashapp is $onceuponaresuce and PayPal is [email protected] to support our rescue horses. We are the only queer-run horse rescue and rider education program in Oregon. We believe that being present with animals is part of learning to be our own authentic selves, and that in helping animals be their best selves we can become better as well. Our human education program includes helping people learn to connect with horses though softness. We believe horses can be a reflection of our best selves if we are open to finding that place with them. Our lesson program focuses on principles of softness, connection, openness, consent, and self-improvement. Our students become both competent riders and good stewards of the horse through understanding how horses see the world. We teach riders and horse stewards of all ages and of varying abilities- we are not a therapy program although most of our students get therapeutic value from our work. If we cannot meet an individual's needs we may be able to offer a referral to an appropriate program. In addition to our in-barn training programs for horses, we take our horses out to events and shows to promote rescue horses as capable, competent and useful horses.
