Embers of Hope Equine Rescue

02/21/2025

Dixie Bell doing great in her long term foster home with one of our board members. With being almost 32 years old, Dixie will remain in foster the rest of her life. It’s wonderful to see her happy and healthy and enjoying a family of her own! 💕

02/19/2025

It’s snowy and cold out but the horses are doing well! Stay safe and warm out there!🥶

02/11/2025

Another great rescue in our area! Read this story to hear about a recent rescue they did. We love to partner with KHS whenever we can! They are doing it right over there!

The Humane Society rescues around 100 horses every year.

02/08/2025

Ash is back at the rescue with us. She had spent the last couple of months in a foster to adopt home but it did not work out. But that’s okay because we always want it to be the best fit possible between horse and rider and that’s why we do foster to adopt programs! And having that one on one time in foster allows us to learn more about each horse. Her fosters really loved Ash. She did very well on the ground and under saddle for them. They enjoyed grooming her and just spending time with her. She got along great in a herd setting there, just like she does here. They struggled with catching Ash. Ash has always been a harder catch. At the rescue it has never taken us more than 5-10 min to catch her but she is not a horse that you can just easily walked up to in the pasture and halter. So we recommend her adopters have a smaller area they can put her in to work with her on catching/bonding with her before moving her to a larger field. We will be continuing to work with her on this as well while she is at the rescue.

For now Ash has settled back in here at the farm and seen the farrier. We’re glad to have her back and committed to finding the perfect home for her and so appreciative of her fosters for loving her the last 60 days and making the right choice for both of them.

If you are interested in fostering or adopting Ash, you can fill out the application below!

https://form.jotform.com/222033526809049

If you interested in covering Ash’s most recent farrier visit or donating to her care now that she is back in rescue you can do that below as well!

PayPal
paypal.me/embersofhope

Venmo

https://venmo.com/code?user_id=3562106481804348040

02/05/2025

We are tentatively planing a craft fair in May to benefit the rescue and provide a fun activity for the community! We are gauging interest both for vendors and attendance so if you are interested in being a vendor or just coming to enjoy please let us know in the comments!

Things we plan to have at the event

*Petting zoo with adult and baby goats, pigs, ponies, lambs and more!

*Variety of vendors

*food vendors (if you have a food truck please reach out!)

*A few different horse demonstrations. (Possibilities for a lunging demonstration, farrier demonstration, etc)

*Pony rides

*bounce house for kids


01/30/2025

Finlay continues to thrive in her foster home, but we sure would like to find her a forever home this year! Maybe 2025 is her year!! ❤️

Finlay is an Apaloosa mare around 20 years old. She’s as sweet as they come with a puppy dog personality. She enjoys people and being pet and groomed. She does great in a herd setting and gets along well with other horses. She’s barefoot and an easy keeper. Despite showing up to us completely emaciated a couple years ago, Finlay has completely rebounded and is doing great!! She is pasture sound but being adopted as companion only as we do not believe she would be comfortable riding sound. She would make the perfect horse for someone who needs a companion to their horse or just wants a super sweet horse to give a soft landing and lots of love for the rest of her days. She deserves a family of her own! Companion adoption fees are waived. If interested please reach out of fill out an application below!!

https://form.jotform.com/222033526809049

01/22/2025

Look at Cheyenne go! She is continuing to thrive with her trainer at KevyGo Riding. She has even started doing some free jumping!

01/18/2025

Look how fluffy Vulcan/Spirit is! He’s looking great in his foster home ❤️ Next to him is adopted horse Hope, looking super good herself!

01/18/2025

Courtesy post:

Meet Zeus. Zeus is a 2 year old boy looking for a new home due to no fault of his own. Zeus's owner is moving and cannot take him with him.

He is a pitbull mix, good with kids and other dogs. Cats unknown. He has not been neutered yet but would be up to date on vaccines at the time or adoption. If you're interested in Zeus please reach out to the rescue and we will get you in touch.

01/15/2025

Another rescue highlight! This time we are highlighting Fleet of Angels! If you’re a horse lover in our area worried about the equines affected by the LA fires but feeling too far away to do much, go give this rescue a follow and support! They are providing hay and supplies, assisting with transport and so much more! You CAN have an impact by supporting the organizations that are doing the boots on the ground effort!

CALLING ALL ANGELS
*aka horse lovers who care about horses that are not even their own
Please make a contribution to this massive effort at www.FleetOfAngels.org if you can. We will be establishing one- and possibly several, hay banks in the LA area to help horse owners who are fire victims have hay, supplies, and help covering the costs of vet care for disaster-related health issues. This is not a mission that will end when the fires do. It will start then.
Meanwhile, we are the primary provider of hay and supplies to two main equine evacuation centers - Los Angeles Equestrian Center and Pierre College, providing other kinds of services and assistance at other locations and we have approved several individual emergency grants. FOA members have made numerous trips to help evacuate horses from unsafe locations and transported them to safe havens.
Helping insure the health, wellbeing, and comfort of the LA 'fire horses' until their owners have been able to regroup, repair, and start to recover is an effort that will take months.
Our goal is to help prevent any horse from falling into dangerous or deadly hands due to an owner's desperation or crisis. And, we want to help bonded horses stay together for their emotional wellbeing- which is just as important to them as having their physical needs met.
All help is appreciated and will be carefully used to help the equine survivors of the multiple ongoing Los Angeles area fires.
www.FleetOfAngels.org
Teamwork works!

01/09/2025

So I thought we might start something new and do a “Rescue Highlight” every week or so where we share other rescues, sanctuaries, shelters etc. The idea is to highlight other rescues our followers might want to know about and to spread awareness and build community. I am a big believer that we are all stronger when we work together! This does not have to be equine specific and in fact our first one is not! If you know of a rescue you think we should hilight, please reach out!

First up is The Tucker Farm! They are a 501c3 non profit located in Georgia. They have captured a lot of hearts with their commitment to the animals they take in and foster/adopt, including special needs dogs like Benny. This is a great example of the impact just one family can make. So if you ever think you’re not enough to make an impact, think again! They have a large and compassionate community already, so go check them out!!

The Tucker Farm

We rescued a very pregnant Betsy Jan, 2012. Sadly, we lost her in 2013 after a battle with cancer.

01/08/2025

We hope everyone is staying warm out there!! Remember over the coming days your horses will need more hay in order to keep warm. Horses generate heat by consuming forage, it’s their own little internal heating system. If you can offer hay free choice, that is ideal, but if not look at doubling thier normal hay ration and make sure they have enough to make it through the night. If you need any assistance with hay, please reach out!

Pictured is adopted horse Kommander, braving the Minnesota winter in style! 🥰

01/05/2025

We hope everyone is staying warm out there!! 🥶 Don’t forget in these cold temps, your horses will need to consume more hay in order to stay warm and dry! Free choice is best if you can do it!

If you are local to our community and need additional hay, please reach out for assistance!

01/05/2025

It has been a very long day (and not over yet) but just want to take a second to shout out our friends at Kentucky Humane Society Equine CARE and Olivia Dixon and all the great work they do. Always a pleasure when we can partner with them to try and help some horses. They are a great group of people who truly care about horses and do rescue right.

We will have some new intros this week! Have to overcome a minor obstacle before we can officially bring them back to the rescue, but excited to introduce you all to them! 🥰

01/01/2025

Happy New Year!! 🎊 We are so thankful to all of our supporters and how they enabled us to help horses this year! Below are some of our goals for 2025! What are your horse goals for 2025?

🎊We are hopeful that are 3 fosters in foster to adopt homes will get adopted this year!
🎊We would LOVE to find Finlay, our longest resident, her forever home in 2025.
🎊Cheyenne with KevyGo Riding should be adoptable this year!! We’re so excited to see her progress in her training and find a wonderful home 🥰
🎊We are ready to send Keeahi to training, once we can find the right trainer for her. If you know a trainer with the experience, skill set and patience for unhandled horses let us know!
🎊More community outreach! We have another movie night planned both as a fundraiser and community event, we are working on planning a murder mystery dinner as well as a spring craft show! If you’re interested in volunteering with either of those we would love to have you!
🎊We are hoping to work more with our local animal control this year to provide education and prevention measures to the community. Including going on equine related calls when needed.

12/31/2024

As 2024 comes to a close, we want to thank all of our supporters for their help this year. We could not have accomplished all we did without you!

If you are considering a last minute charitable contribution for 2024, please think of us. If your employer has a matching program, reach out and ask them to match your contributions.

12/25/2024

Merry Christmas to everyone! The horses enjoyed a nice groom session yesterday and some cookies! We are super grateful for all of our followers and supporters, especially our fosters! We hope you all have a wonderful day spent with family, friends and ponies! 🎄

12/22/2024

Happiest of birthdays to one of our board of directors Tori Heisler!! 🎉🎊