3 Hearts Farm Animal Rescue

01/19/2025

Thank you Hanaeleh

We totally agree

01/19/2025

We have had the rare occasion to free range the herds we’ve had in the past. This is a great guide on what to expect

Just be patient. Time will work it all out eventually

01/16/2025

Amen

We have a Google Nest thermostat at our lake house so that I can adjust the temperature before we arrive and also to warm it up in the winter when we have freezing temperatures. The other day I got a message that it wasn't connected to the wifi. Our wifi is awful so that wasn't surprising but I just kept having this nagging feeling that something was wrong. Do you ever do that? It happens to me often. I asked the Cowboy and he wasn't too worried about it but it just kept popping in my head. Sadly, this past year it happened a couple of times and I ignored it. Little silly things like "I think I should put my sweet puppy up while we are processing bulls?" and "You don't think a dog could get their head stuck in that watering can do you?" I won't share those awful stories because they both still haunt me but YES AND YES are the answers to those questions.

My mom's sweet boyfriend BB was going down to their house so he went down and checked ours and sure enough, the heat was off. That still small voice was right again. We were mortified that pipes were busted. Luckily, we ALWAYS turn off the water so we haven't discovered all the damage yet. But I went down the next day to turn on space heaters.

Here's the thing. Fear is a liar. But...God speaks to us in a still small voice. Sometimes I have trouble discerning the two. My girls were going to come to our Christmas party together, in bad weather and I had a panic attack. "Please don't come together. I know fear is a liar but, please don't." I didn't tell them I had a bad feeling. Quincy immediately replied, "Yes fear is a liar. We will take Colt's truck." They both arrived to and from the party safely. I don't want to freak people out and I'm not always right but gosh that sick feeling I get haunts me.

God also gave us brains for a reason. We need to use them. I've had a watering can sitting on my porch for 30 years but for some reason, moving under a hydrant was a bad idea. The voice told me to move it. I didn't and I left town. My sweet sidekick of eight years tried to get a drink and it's on me. She's never done it before, but she did it then. I have 47 water tanks, bowls, ponds, etc. but let's stick our head it here. Ugh. I would have heard her if I was home. I promise you I'm listening to that voice very carefully now and I almost get sick leaving my animals. I still miss you every day Bubbles. You were the best.

We cannot live in fear but I also feel like God must be holding a sign that says, "Do not fear, but don't be dumb." So the point of this awful story is this. LISTEN to that still small voice in your head and heed the warnings. If you are in an uncomfortable place, get out. If it tells you to do something, act. God still talks to us, but so does the devil. The key is figuring out which is which.

01/15/2025

Can you find Wyatt?

He’s living his best life with Freedom Reins Youth Ranch Inc. right now.

12/23/2024

Friendly reminder: the shelter IS OPEN today (December 23, 2024) from 8am-1p! We are closing at 1pm and remaining closed through Christmas. We will resume regular business hours on Thursday!

Please come by and visit the dogs and cats and adopt your next best friend!

Have a safe holiday and Merry Christmas to all!

12/23/2024

12/20/2024

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12/19/2024

We aren’t looking for another dog…..

But this guy sure is tempting.

12/18/2024

So true
Be a good steward of your Blessings

I sat in my chair last night, in the glow of the Christmas lights of my 1920 farmhouse.
I had decided I would watch “The End.”
The end of a TV series that I have watched, sporadically over the last several years.

I watched it the first time, out of curiosity. I heard sarcastic and angry and emotional commentary from people I know and trust. On Monday mornings, my farm and ranch friends would do a run down about the evening’s episode.
Never was the commentary about the made for TV drama, alone. Always wrapped inside, were the observations about the silly and inaccurate portrayals of our lives. But also, the snippets of the very accurate and real parts of our lives, lived out on screen by men and women who will never know our faces and names and stories. But in this act, I saw many (including me on occasion) express a wee bit of gratitude for the chance to be heard. And isn’t that what we all want in life, at one point or another?
To be heard, seen, and understood.

There are no spoilers here. Nothing to give away, outside of all the previews that led up to the finale last night.

For me, I found myself shedding tears and a bit emotionally drained.
Because the tiny threads that coursed throughout last evening that resonated with my life here, exposed the very raw truth that all that was given, or purchased, or taken from others, that makes up our lifeblood…well, in all reality it can and will end one day.
Perhaps by choice. Perhaps not.
But that is the very real risk we signed up for, when each of us chose to live our lives as stewards of the land.
And for as hard as it may be to face that reality, there is also something intrinsically beautiful about the idea that none of this really belongs to us, anyway.
It’s just ours to take care of, for a short while.
In finality, if all I ever manage, is to leave it better than I found it, I know I will not only honor my heritage, but honor He who owns it all.
And there is no greater life’s work than that.
Hold fast, friends. While the appeal to sell for the developments that offer you money and security and prosperity are legitimate and powerful, they will NOT fulfill your soul.
We cannot afford to give more land away, to take it away from the way it was made. Farm it, with intentional care and purpose to raise food. Ranch it, to graze the prairie and raise the protein upon it. Curate it to clean the air, protect our water, and leave the soils healthy.
This IS its purpose.
Because. There is no more land to be made.

12/14/2024

What a good looking boy !