Magical Menagerie Sanctuary

08/16/2024

Pickett’s bill for yesterday 😞 I have already paid it but if anyone can help by donating, we would sure apprappreciate it! His medication alone was $292.50. This does not include Sunny’s bill from the same appointment yesterday. His won’t be inputted till Monday.

We also had some farrier work done for the guys today! Please help if you can!

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08/15/2024

Very thankful for our vet and making time for an extra patient today. Both Pickett and Sunny had some tough work done! One needed a drain from a wither injury and we lanced what was built up in there already, yuck! And Sunny had his ulcer remnants removed and cauterized. Both horses are feeling much better but it’s a long way to recovery and tons of meds, some, 3 times a day! If you can help with their vet bills (we desperately need the help), please head to our website and donate right on the site. ❤️‍🩹

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08/15/2024

Our Hay Fundraiser is Live on Zeffy! Please share, share, share! Share with like minded individuals that share our mission. Share in your local animal groups. Share to community groups. Share to yard sale groups in your area. Just share this post/link! ❤️ We need all the exposure we can get to keep these guys fed over the winter months! Animal shelters and sanctuaries hurting right now and full to the max! We are still low on the hierarchy chain because we have only been a registered 501(c)3 for a year now. But we can do this with your help and support! We must start our stock pile now to stay on top of things. 🌾

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Help Magical Menagerie residents secure the hay needed to get through the winter and in to late spring 2025, when hay cutting will resume. We must start stock piling NOW!The sanctuary residents will go through approximately 100 round bales each winter period. The “winter period” is when hay supp...

08/14/2024

Star has a talk with his security detail…

Sorry for not posting daily but back to school for the kids and my volunteers being gone has made me super busy trying to get everything done by myself. I have also had a construction company in the home to try and juggle. Not fun!

We are going to start our Back to School Hay Fundraiser this month! We will be launching it on our Zeffy Donation Platform. It will have its own special link. Please consider donating what you can as it is going to take a lot of money this fall to secure the sanctuary for the winter months and we are struggling with donations to keep up! All donations are tax deductible! I will post the special hay link over the next day or so but till then, you can still donate with zero fees, right on our home page. 👇

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08/11/2024

When all the hurt horses gather on the porch because they know you are inside the window. All my Walmart greeters just hanging out on a lovely day!

Another vet appointment this coming week, along with the farrier. Sunny’s vet bills are $1200 for his cellulitis, to date. We would love some help with that if it’s on your heart to help him. This week he will have more antibiotics, an IV and have his ulcer proud flesh surgically removed.

The farrier visit will be approximately $220 this week as well.

Poor Pickett will also be seen by the vet because my 3 year old stallion broke out of his pasture and scared the dickens out of Pickett overnight where he hit himself on a hay feeder creating a wound. 😔 It was healing just fine till late last week and he’s already on antibiotics. But we may need to surgically drain it and culture. Picketts vet services and price are unknown as of right now, but we will update.

Our hay bill still sits at $2500 and we haven’t even started hoarding the round bales for winter, that will come by the end of August. It will take approximately 170 round bales to get through the winter with the sanctuary residents. That will bring the round bale bill alone to $7900.

If it’s on your heart and mind to give to these old and crippled souls so they can continue to have a comfortable rest of their life, please consider it. Please also help spread the word so we can get our sanctuary in front of more like minds ❤️

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08/08/2024

Sunset with a storm on the TB’s… ⛅️ To help sponsors any of our sanctuary thoroughbreds, we have 5, please visit our website to sign up.

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08/07/2024

08/05/2024

How is it that these two STUNNING gentlemen don’t have a sponsor yet?! This is Casper and Twister. Twister is probably the sweetest boy, always looking for tons of love! Come out and meet him! ❤️

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08/05/2024

It has rained/stormed non stop here for almost two weeks! We needed it here bad but it’s like all or nothing. Very humid conditions and look… we have fairy communities growing all over the farm! 🧚 Time to mow!

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08/03/2024

July was rough, just not enough donations coming in and I dont have the time to get out in the community more as I am a one man show. 😞

08/02/2024

Pickett snoring during his siesta during more storms today. This horse snores like no one’s business!

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08/01/2024

Be careful people, I knew something was up with this place IMMEDIATELY! Be very careful where you send your donations! They do deals to actually ship to slaughter! It’s a money game, not about horse welfare! 🫣

Once again, Animals’ Angels has uncovered infuriating proof that it is always a terrible idea to support any online program linked to a kill buyer such as Bruce Rotz, a convicted animal abuser who runs a horse slaughter operation in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania.

In recent years, Bruce Rotz has teamed up with Virginia horse rescue Colby’s Crew, which was established in 2021, and which has been helping Rotz make exorbitant amounts of money online.

On October 12, 2023, Colby’s Crew announced their biggest online fundraiser yet. They claimed that if they could quickly raise $50,000, Bruce Rotz would stop shipping horses to slaughter and keep his pen empty for the final two months of the year.

As of October 14th, $36,000 had already been raised. Colby’s Crew announced that this was the chance to literally end East Coast horse slaughter. The next day, Colby’s Crew joyously announced that they “did it” and “history was made”.

Unfortunately, the official documents we’ve uncovered tell a much different story. USDA health certificates clearly show that Rotz never stopped shipping horses in 2023.

In fact, three loads totaling 83 horses were shipped to the Viande Richelieu plant in November and two loads were shipped in December.

A review of previous records all the way back to 2021 confirms this shipment pattern is consistent with Rotz’s past activity, making it clear that he took the donors’ money and continued on with his slaughter business as usual.

Read more about this and the aggravated cruelty case here:

https://www.animalsangels.org/investigations/horses/bruce-rotz-avoids-aggravated-cruelty-charges-deceives-donors

07/31/2024

Pig purring… it’s a thing! 🐽 Hagrid LOVES his mud! Don’t mess with his mud hole! 🕳️

Doing financials to close out the month of July and with vet bills and the hay blil we are paying on, we are in bad shape. Donations are stagnant and sponsors have slowed. Can you help an animal out with a new sponsorship or one time donation? Go to the website for more details and to donate. ❤️

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07/30/2024

George says… “Welp, it’s raining again! How does this mud make me look?” ☔️

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07/30/2024

We had so much rain all at once that Buckey lived in the jungle today till we could mow his grass. I think he enjoyed it though!

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07/29/2024

Yep. I never leave. Ever… 🥴

07/29/2024

Momma Peno for the obligatory sunset photo! This was right after the torrential downpour today in Central Kentucky.

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07/27/2024

Body clipping the mini donkey ❤️ She always loves it! Thanks Malin!

Our donations this month were very scarce. 😞 With multiple vet visits and medication for Sunny and his cellulitis, we are being forced to pocket a big deficit! Please consider a donation to help us with the sanctuary residents.

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07/26/2024

Cassie wins sunset photo this week! 🌞

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07/25/2024

Welcome to Kentucky bluegrass! The views never get old!

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07/22/2024

They are always doing such a great job guarding their ponies! Tonight, Pickett at the lake.

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07/21/2024

A view of the to***co barn and corn on a ride. So peaceful, so calming, so blessed. Love seeing all these horses so content and so loved… just being horses.

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07/21/2024

I see a bad moon risin’… 🌙

07/20/2024

Pickett sleeping his snack off. Apparently it’s really comfortable to sleep in your feed pan. Maybe we should try it 🤔

07/20/2024

Sweet Goliath watching the barn swallows over the lake.

We are still treating Sunny vigorously. He is not out of the woods. However, he is very slowly improving.

We had volunteers out today from Centre College’s Compass Program. We had 31 kids out here painting fences and cleaning all the barn doors. Lots of work today and we are so appreciative ❤️

07/17/2024

So sweet sweet Sunny has relapsed with his cellulitis. The vet was out yesterday to treat him again. This is his second treatment, we have switched things up, they treated very aggressively with IV’s and IV DMSO. He needs all your love and support as we battle this. He his having a very hard time walking at all now. His vet bills are rising along with his medication list. We are at $450 in 2 days since relapse. If you have any money to spare this month, please consider a donation to Sunny and his continuing care.

Our hay bill still sits at $3,000 as well. That’s after 3 payments we have personally made.

You can donate via any means, right on our website at:

www.themagicalmenagerie.com

07/17/2024

The Swap Dog from the Black Lagoon 🥴
Please send help! This is why my dogs stink. 🤦🏼‍♀️

07/17/2024

The monster from the black lagoon… this is why the dogs always smell 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️🥴🥴🥴

07/16/2024

This weekend we had the Governors Scholar Program at Centre College out to the farm and they were so amazing! What wonderful helpers on the farm and we were lucky to have them out! I think the animals enjoyed them too 😉

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