Hugs for Horses Therapeutic Riding Program

01/01/2025

12/11/2024

Georgetown County, SC Chamber of Commerce, Thank you for visiting with Hugs!

11/28/2024

Happy Thanksgiving, from our happy place to yours! ❤️

11/21/2024

*UPDATE*
*Found*
George is home!! So far he seems ok and happy to be back. Thank you all for sharing!! 🐾💙

If anyone sees a Great Pyrenees in Georgetown on Hwy 51 area please let me know. He has 2 collars on, but they are hard to see with all his fur. We miss him terribly. Went missing around 7:45am this morning. He got upset when someone backed a car into him here at the barn and he ran off. Contact Rona Jacobs at (843)833-3929 or me at (843)344-3148

10/29/2024

BLOOD DRIVE IS CANCELLED FOR NOW! Stay tuned! Hugs for Horses supporters in Murrells Inlet please make an appointment to give blood 11/12!

10/22/2024

Smiling faces, where life embraces,
Joy that flows through peaceful spaces,
Horses healing body and soul,
With every connection, making us whole.

09/01/2024

Remember Sandra? What a difference a little time makes! Rona rescued Sandra 3 months ago. She was suffering from terrible heaves, was dangerously underweight, and had a terrible skin infection; her condition so poor we were concerned she wouldn’t live. The first picture is 2 weeks after Rona got her. The bottom picture is Sandra today! While she still has weight to gain, there are no more protruding ribs and bones. Her coat is shiny. Her heaves have greatly improved with a special diet and minimal medication. Having not been ridden much in her former life, we are riding her a little at a time at a walk/jog and she doing great. She has remained very sweet. We have high hopes for her!

07/17/2024

Apply NOW! No cost to participants. A different way to give confidence in reading skills using horses as peers in learning. For kids one or more years behind in reading skills.

Only a few spots left. Accepting applications till 7/19.

07/12/2024

Horse Powered Reading®️and Therapeutic Riding Camp for kids who have completed 1st grade and up who are at least one year behind in their reading. No cost to rider. Space limited.

Camp is FREE if you have a child struggling with reading or a grade level behind. We just got approval for a second Horse Powered Reading Camp at Hugs for Horses. Located in Georgetown. Contact info is on flyer. — at Georgetown Equestrian Center.

07/04/2024

🎆 Celebrate the 4th of July with Old Georgetown Creamery! 🎆

Make it a perfect Independence Day with ice cream, music, and fireworks!

Start your evening with the 4th of July Concert on The Lawn at the Kaminski House Museum, featuring music by Indigo Choral Society from 7-8:30 PM. Feel free to bring a chair for the lawn.

After the concert, swing by Old Georgetown Creamery for some delicious ice cream before heading to the city of Georgetown's fireworks display at 9:30 PM. We're open until 9 PM as usual, so take advantage of our special deal: Buy 1 scoop, get the 2nd scoop FREE!

Enjoy a sweet treat, fantastic music, and a spectacular fireworks show. It's the perfect way to spend your 4th of July! 🇺🇸🍦

See you soon at Old Georgetown Creamery!

06/26/2024

Taking applications now! Spots limited.

05/30/2024

When people hear our name, Hugs for Horses, they often think we are a horse rescue. And we kinda are! While saving horses is not our mission, we are often approached by horse owners far and wide who can’t, or don’t want to, take care of their old/sick/lame horses anymore. We get, “If you don’t want him, we’re going to have him put down.” Often they don’t tell us quite the whole truth about their horse’s health, personality, and training until we are there to see with our own eyes this “free” horse.
Now, meet Sandra! Note her ETF tattoo. Sandra had been an Embryo Transfer recipient mare used to artificially inseminate, gestate, birth, and nurse 7 “test tube” foals over several years. When she became too old to be an optimal recipient mare, this company sold her to a feed lot to be fattened up and auctioned off to be trucked to Mexico for slaughter. The woman who contacted Rona about taking Sandra had bought her from the feed lot pre-auction, but then allowed her over time to decline to the point Rona found her when they went to look at Sandra. Sandra was extremely skinny, had horrible heaves (like COPD in people), and a skin infection so bad puss was running down her face. Rona decided to give Sandra a chance at great life in her quest to find a perfect Hugs’ therapy horse. If Rona ended up having to put Sandra down, at least she’d have been given the best feed and medical care,and a clean stall and lots of TLC before she died.
I took these pictures of Sandra 2 weeks after Rona got her. Rona gave her antibiotics for the skin infection. For the heaves, Rona took Sandra completely off of hay, put her on a diet of alfalfa cubes and senior feed, and gave her a course of steroids. Sandra will never be given hay again because it often harbors a mold if not properly stored that many horses are allergic to. According to the vet, Sandra will always have lung damage caused from allowing the heaves to become so bad. But, her improvement at our barn is astounding! Two weeks in and she is steadily gaining weight, her heaves are in remission, and her skin infection is almost cleared up. And, we found she has the sweetest disposition, very grateful to be in a place that must seem like Heaven to her. We are cautiously hopeful that she may, one day, have what it takes to be a miracle-working Hugs’ Therapy Horse!

05/23/2024

School is soon out for the summer and this week our classes came for the last time this school year. Here’s a few images of this week’s last ride….Until we see you again! 💕

05/15/2024

Love our little Sampit Elementary School class of 4 year olds that comes on Tuesdays, where little miracles happen on horseback! Wren Pigg is a wonderful, enthusiastic teacher for these kids! ❤

05/11/2024

I have thousands of great Hugs pictures on my iPhone from over the years. Today, this picture I took 2 years ago, a sweet student in Maryville Elementary School’s pre-K program, has made me smile BIG! Are you smiling, too? -Anne Marie 😀