Wild Hearts Rescue Ranch

01/01/2026

I am doing better! Surgery was successful and other than check ups with oncology every three months for the next two years, I am currently “in the clear” and was cleared to go back to work carefully and slowly. Surprising few, even in my darkest time of need, I find myself helping animals and others in need. Tomorrow I am taking the new human resident of the ranch and her cat to the vet in safford for an ear hematoma. It’s affordable there. Around $200 at worst. This woman was facing homelessness while extremely ill, and we were able to get her refuge here in a camper on the property. She has next to no income. Help with this bill would be amazing. Her animals are about all she has left besides an unbelievably hard battle with her health. It’s also time for the farrier for all hooved residents of the rescue as well as time to buy hay and i am so financially buried from my own illness, its daunting to face the new year with over a thousand in animal expenses right out of the gate. Your support at this time is appreciated more than ever. Soon, I should be back to meeting 90% of our needs or more off my income. Besides, it is THE YEAR OF THE HORSE! I sure hope it isn’t a $300 auction chestnut mare nobody lunged… 🫠 Tater and Fern featured for cute tax.

THANK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF OUR WILD HEARTS!

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Wild Hearts Rescue Ranch
10940 E Calle Venado
Hereford Arizona 85615

EIN 46-4375052

11/29/2025

Surgery is Tuesday. I’m faced with having to attempt returning to work immediately. Please share or donate. Anything helps.

My name is Jessica Gray, and I never imagined I’d be making a GoFundMe for … Jessica Gray needs your support for Urgent Help Needed for Jessica's Medical Care

11/24/2025

Someone said something extremely hateful to me this morning about the gofundme I put up for my long health ordeal. All I have to say is this… we are pretty much all a few months sick, a natural or man made disaster, a lay off or a disease away from poverty. None of us are a month away from being billionaires, or anything remotely close. I’ve been a helper my entire life. Any time I find someone in need, I do whatever I can. Animals, people, friends, strangers… I help. I’ll even help the as**at who was so incredibly rude this morning when their time comes. I’m definitely gonna remind them… but I’ll help. Stop aligning your morals with an imaginary situation in which you are immune to circumstancial need. It doesn’t exist. One day, empathy and kindness will be the grace that saves YOU from ruin, and if you’re lucky, folks will be gracious enough to forget your behavior to others when they were in need.

My name is Jessica Gray, and I never imagined I’d be making a GoFundMe for … Jessica Gray needs your support for Urgent Help Needed for Jessica's Medical Care

11/08/2025

These designs are for sale to help fund the rescue and my recovery. ❤️

11/04/2025

With my ongoing medical nightmare, I could really use help with hay and feed for the animals remaining at the ranch. I have rehomed everyone I can, and have been primarily paying for their needs, farrier, feed, vet etc out of my income which is normally fine. I’m unable to do much until this is resolved without getting much weaker any time I try. Please consider a donation for feed. I’m running out of reserved funds quickly with a lot of medical needs ahead. New insurance is helping but still without full treatment plan and likely facing procedures that will require rest. Thank you!

THANK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF OUR WILD HEARTS!

To donate

PayPal.me/yourwildheart

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Cashapp $jwild1998

Zelle 5206614522

Wild Hearts Rescue Ranch
10940 E Calle Venado
Hereford Arizona 85615

EIN 46-4375052

10/23/2025

https://gofund.me/538a5bc15 Never thought it would be me, but here we are.

My name is Jessica Gray, and I never imagined I’d be making a GoFundMe for … Jessica Gray needs your support for Urgent Help Needed for Jessica's Medical Care

09/22/2025

You’ve all watched and helped as I saved animal lives for the last couple decades. Now I need your help on a more serious level. My dear friend has faced unbelievable loss, health issues and financial struggles over the last ten years and now it’s killing her. She’s in Denver in the hospital because stress caused a bleeding and perforated ulcer that resulted in loss of a large part of her stomach. She will come out of the hospital further behind on bills and likely facing an eviction with no where to go. She has no immediate family, and no one else capable of providing her a stress free place to stay. I have to revitalize one of the old bunk houses from the homelessness relief program immediately and go to Denver to bring her to the ranch where she can heal and be protected from fear of homelessness, loss of her beloved cat and general stress. This is a human life. A very worthy, kind and loving human life that has served in animal rescue and humanitarian causes endlessly, and can hardly bear asking for the help she desperately needs. Every penny donated will be used to update one of the old bunk houses into a fully functioning guest space (the inn is full here at the ranch without adding this space) and get alternative storage for the tools in that bunk house that I make my living with and to facilitate her safety in Denver upon her release until we can go get her and bring her to the ranch. Stress nearly killed her, and with a resectioned stomach and a pile of stress waiting for her when she is finally released from the hospital, the prognosis is not good. This is the surface of her medical issues, after spinal surgeries and nearly dying of sepsis put her in this situation to begin with. I AM BEGGING YOU. We have saved horses, dogs, cats, pigs, goats and more together. Now I am begging you to help me save this beautiful sweet woman from literal hell on earth and protect her life so she can heal. I can’t lose Erin. That’s too much cruelty and unfairness to face. PLEASE HELP. WE ARE A TAX DEDUCTIBLE 501c3. The goal is at least $5000 to get through her release and safe transport to the ranch and into a comfortable and functional tiny home type space as fast as possible. We may need to pay a month of rent in Denver for her if she’s too medically fragile to make the move right away.

THANK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF OUR WILD HEARTS!

To donate

PayPal.me/yourwildheart

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Cashapp $jwild1998

Zelle 5206614522

Wild Hearts Rescue Ranch
10940 E Calle Venado
Hereford Arizona 85615

EIN 46-4375052

09/09/2025

I’ve tried to not be ruined by what man has begun to routinely do to the horse. I’ve tried to not be stricken with rage and grief and pure hatred for what many have made of rescue. Once the greatest refuge and short stop on cruelty and heartlessness for all animals, now so much of it is a scam, enriching vile performance artists and in turn enriching the kill buyers and auction houses that are the greatest purveyors of equine suffering and desperation. If they truly cared, would they not get between the owners and the auction houses? Would they not take those millions of dollars and go to the Amish or any other horrificly immoral group or individual pumping tragically, neglected, and overused horses into auction houses, and just buy them directly instead of lining the pockets of evil absolute? Instead, they’ve made a business deal with the devil himself, and they are all much richer as a result. Netting sometimes over $100,000 in donations per horse, and most of the time, not even being able to tell those donors where that animal went in the end. Plenty of those same horses have been found at those same auction lots being circulated back into the system after they were used to cheat people out of money, exploiting, the few remaining shreds of empathy and compassion left for horses, while good rescues doing hard work sit forgotten. So that I did not collapse into insanity and hopelessness, I have stepped away and will quietly work whatever cases I can. I will speak out against the ignorance, foolishness, and corruption that rescue has become. I will call out donors for their misplaced empathy, gullible nature, and thoughtless support of something far worse than anything that came before their dollar was misplaced. That’s the best I can do, and still remain whole. Maybe someday, the truth, integrity, logic and reality will become valuable to others again.

This haunting photograph from 1899 shows Friedrich Nietzsche in a mental asylum, nearly a decade after the collapse that silenced one of philosophy’s most provocative voices. Once a giant of thought, he spent his final years consumed by frailty, unable to continue shaping the ideas that had stirred generations. The image captures not triumph, but the fragility that overtook brilliance.

The unraveling began on January 3, 1889, in Turin, Italy. As the story goes, Nietzsche saw a carriage driver mercilessly whipping a horse. Stricken with emotion, he rushed forward, embraced the animal, and kissed it with tears in his eyes. Moments later, he fell into collapse, a turning point from which he would never return.

The tale of Nietzsche and the horse endures as one of history’s most haunting symbols: a philosopher who wrote of will and strength undone by a sudden flood of compassion. It lingers as a reminder that even the most unyielding minds are bound by human tenderness, and that his tragic fall closed the life of one of philosophy’s most enduring figures.

08/29/2025

So this is how it ends. Supporting just the horses sanctuaried here is becoming impossible without sacrificing my own health and welfare. Meanwhile, a
“Rescue” who’s name I will not mention since the 200k they pay the husband and wife who run it definitely can afford them bulk legal action against anyone who dares to expose them can afford a 2.5 mil property and continue to stuff the pockets of kill buyers and auction houses with literally millions of dollars a year, pay their neighbors half a mil to quarantine etc etc continue to scam their way to wealth one kill lot horse at a time. Apparently, I’ve been doing this charity thing wrong. I was under the impression that I was supposed to pay for everything I could and only ask for what I needed because what I was doing was for horses, not for myself. My fool ass has been working myself to the bone for a decade and change, only asking for what we needed and filling in for whatever we didn’t get to make sure that we did good for animals that needed care. I was also careful to make sure that we didn’t put money into the hands of monsters to fuel the purchase of more animals for them to send to horrific circumstances or use in ongoing scams with so-called rescues. All that drama and hostage negotiation sure makes for a good time and I bet everyone involved feels like they’ve really accomplished something. Between that and the many lower level scams that I can no longer stomach, I simply don’t wanna be associated with people who call themselves rescuers anymore. We have three horses that need to find homes immediately. Two of them are older mares. They are sound easy keepers. Both are light ride worthy. We have a younger grade stud that needs chryptorchid surgery with complications that will be time consuming and expensive to deal with. Further discussions will only be had with qualified adopters. I will no longer help with Vet bills, feed, surrender, or criminal cases. I refuse to associate with what rescue has become. If the very different way that I have conducted this rescue since its formation is not apparent and worthy of support while total scam artists filling the pockets of kill buyers are worth millions, I’m out. I have never been so sick and disappointed as I have been since seeing the truth on paper about so many rescues. There is one rescue that I know of with integrity and hard work behind it and I’m sure there are a few more I am unaware of, but it is the exception, not the rule. All that rescue has gotten me personally is debt, poor health, a destroyed body, a broken heart and a shattered mind. I ended and prevented a lot of suffering. I made a lot of messed up situations known and assured they would get whatever amount of justice we could provide. I’ve been persecuted by crooked law-enforcement in the neighboring county for doing the right thing in a situation where no one else was even close. I’ve been treated like a pariah for telling the truth. I’m over it. Between the economic realities of horse ownership and the ever widening ignorance and cruelty of humanity, it isn’t going to get any better. It may improve in a few counties that have elected sheriffs that truly care about animal welfare and will prosecute anyone found to be neglecting or abusing any animal.  I cannot continue to watch my health and sanity slip away while working myself to an end to support the forsaken horses of people who should never own an animal. We can’t even get the very little support that we ask for honest needs for a few animals, but I can sit here and look at a $400,000 accumulative salary paid to two jokes that feed the most cruel and vicious system that ever got its hands on a horse shamelessly while making $100,000 or more off every animal they touch. I’ve never paid myself or paid for any of my needs with rescue donations. My housing, vehicles (with the exception of a donated truck) the bills or infrastructure attached etc we’re always my responsibility and donors dollars went to the feed, veterinary care and needs of the animals only. Apparently it’s not that people cannot donate. It’s that I will not participate in hostage negotiations with monsters who only use money to hurt more animals at the cost of my own integrity. I will not make fools of donors to pretend I’m in it for the welfare of horses while every move I execute enriches those who hurt them most after heavily lining my own pockets. I couldn’t live with myself if I did. My integrity and honor is above what rescue has become in most circumstances. There are links to donate in previous posts if you feel compelled to put a little bit of money where it’s actually used for the animals, but I’m done begging for help solving problems I did not create. I’ll be cutting out animals down to the very high needs, extremely elderly with complications, and psychologically damaged few that are not good candidates for adoption at all and deserve to live their end where they know their companions and people. Integrity, health, and truly helping animals without enriching their most dangerous and prolific abusers matters.

08/16/2025

We have recieved $970 towards these needs, giving me a little bit of a break with handling it all on my husbands’ and my own income. I’m so used to being a “me” instead of a “we” it’s hard to change that language… reflecting on my drain and heartache with rescue, I think a lot of it comes from losing Crow in 2021. He was my foundation. My soul. My purpose. I will never be the same without him and no horse will ever take his place. Losing Odin, my beautiful mastiff boy this year added weight and dulled my joy and drive as well. The constant stress of finance, the lack of justice and a wild circumstance I still don’t have the words to describe with a case in 2024 and health issues have not helped. This little burst of support has renewed my spirit quite a bit. I appreciate each one of you so much. If it’s possible to continue that support to knock down this list a little more and allow me to focus on my own welfare some, I might be able to return to intake instead of just the weekly or bi monthly assistance case. We helped lay two beloved horses to rest Monday for a local woman who’s health issues failing, crowd funded off a handful of our dedicated supporters. Provided some feed for another in a bind the same way. I will NEVER stop helping. I wish I could return to the level of action I could offer before. I hope to. Thank you for the love.

Routine dental care $750
Farrier (one round of care due next week for all hoof having residents) $680
Hay and feed for the month of August $1800
Labor assistance for stall mucking and monsoon maintenance $450
Vaccinations for fall $350
Replacing three shelters destroyed in storm $400
Routine vet check for three elder horses $300

THANK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF OUR WILD HEARTS!

To donate

PayPal.me/yourwildheart

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Cashapp $jwild1998

Zelle 5206614522

Wild Hearts Rescue Ranch
10940 E Calle Venado
Hereford Arizona 85615

EIN 46-4375052

08/12/2025

The animals received $650 towards the following expenses over the last two weeks! Thank you for the help! It would be WONDERFUL if we could get another round of support for the remaining needs ❤️

Routine dental care $750
Farrier (one round of care due next week for all hoof having residents) $680
Hay and feed for the month of August $1800
Labor assistance for stall mucking and monsoon maintenance $450
Vaccinations for fall $350
Replacing three shelters destroyed in storm $400
Routine vet check for three elder horses $300

THANK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF OUR WILD HEARTS!

To donate

PayPal.me/yourwildheart

Venmo -gray-226

Cashapp $jwild1998

Zelle 5206614522

Wild Hearts Rescue Ranch
10940 E Calle Venado
Hereford Arizona 85615

EIN 46-4375052