Devil Dog Depot Equine Sanctuary and Rescue

07/11/2024

❤️❤️❤️18 YEARS TODAY!!!❤️❤️❤️
💕HAPPY 7-11 DAY, BABY!!!💕

Eighteen years ago, I had returned from Iraq and went to the courthouse to marry my best friend. He proposed in a letter via snail mail while I was deployed. I don't think it was much of a surprise to anyone as we were inseperable from the start!

Been lots of ups and downs but we've stuck together. Blended families are HARD.

Thank you, Jason, for not only putting up with me, which I know isn't easy, but for showing me what love, patience and friendship really is. I'd marry you a hundred more times!

Happy Anniversary, my love!

No matter what life brings, I will always be blessed having you and our kids (when they behave 🤣) in my life. Time flies when you get to spend it with your best friend.

Growing mature with the s*xiest Marine! I know how lucky I am 😘 Jason Gallentine

Here's to 18+ more!!! Long-awaited honeymoons, adventures, empty-nesting to come. Elderly makeout sessions in public places, etc. And SOMEDAY we will get our free slushies, too?!?

07/09/2024

Going on 29ish hours without power. House getting hot! Luckily I bought some solar fans not long ago that will be in the barn soon -- in house for now!

LOTS of debris from trees. Checking fences soon. Horses are good.

Definitely didn't need more yard cleanup chores, or having to toss all perishable food BUT our little tribe (human and other) is safe -- so we are good.

Appreciate all those who checked in on us.

Hoping power is back on for all of us soon 🙏

Will get better look at structures later today.

Pic of both "babies" laying on and on top of me for the majority of the storm, yesterday. Bit sore from that, butt clenching it while driving through it for an appointment and jumping in and out of truck to pull limbs and branches out of the road.

I'm too old for this stuff!!!

Devil Dog Depot Equine Sanctuary and Rescue

07/08/2024

Bit freaky sounding. No power and tornado watch., too. Hope everyone is doing OK. Pray for those on the coast. They got hit bad.

06/13/2024

According to multiple, credible sources (VSOs, VA and national healthcare organizations, etc.), "There are an estimated 1 million veterans who identify as le***an, gay, bis*xual, transgender and q***r."

So it's irritating to see posts "declaring" June be made into another veterans' month (there's already three of those plus multiple holidays) to downplay/challenge Pride Month.

For one ... there have always been LGBTQ+ serving in all first responder fields. Even prior to the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" nonsense post mid-90s. I've served with many great members in both the military and hospital settings. Not a single one would have withheld protection or care discriminating against you ... yet, bigots fill the world with ignorant comments -- way too focused on other people's s*x lives and harmless lifestyle choices.

And what about the veterans??? So quick to dangle our struggles and needs for change as deflection on every other topic YET you don't care enough to actually DO SOMETHING CONSTRUCTIVE to help us. Stop using us as excuses to further your own agendas.

PS -- Not all veterans are good people, either. We are a mixing pot of everything from everywhere and unfortunately turds still get mixed in, too. So the racist, s*xist, anti-good hypocrites can shut their pieholes, too.

Separation from church and state. Freedom to practice religion without persecution. Freedom from tyranny and oppression ...

Remember why the majority of veterans served. To keep our country safe and thriving FOR ALL CITIZENS. Not just ones just like you.

-- Sarge

Devil Dog Depot Equine Sanctuary and Rescue

06/01/2024

I tried to make a difference.

Until you step into the realm of rescue, you don't know how heartbreaking, stressful and overwhelming it is IN EVERY ASPECT.

Seeing how cruel people are. Not just the ones who abuse and neglect animals. The cutthroat charities and foundations, fraudsters and those in alliances with horse flippers.

Being a designated 501c3 public charity does not mean you automatically get any federal, or state funding. A common misconception. As is the dreamy grants that get scooped up by the multi-million dollar, paid CEO charities with full-time grant writing teams ... ridiculous amounts of money and no change to show for it.

So much suffering. It's getting unbearable having my hands tied. The desire and ability ready but no means available. Dying dreams to grieve.

I'm burned out.

My health reflects it. Labs look like crap. Thyroid was the latest autoimmune victim. Another damn pill. No rest. Keep pushing.

Veterans are dying from all sorts of illness and cancers with service-connected environmental exposures -- or by their own hand. Numbers growing every day.

Mental health crisis is affecting our youth, too. Takes sometimes six months or more to get the first appointment. Half a million kids in Texas foster care. So many needing positive mentors bouncing around in the juvenile justice system.

Community members suffering from grief and trauma. Hands need extended out for domestic violence victims to become survivors.

I wanted to help so many more heal, too. Advocate and demand change in so many broken, or absent programs.

Why are people so selfish, entitled, evil and uncaring?

Just needed to vent. Being sick makes you stationary and without manual labor distractions. I made some big differences to those affected. Nearly 40 horses over three years. More than 20 people with several free therapy sessions each. Three made known were no longer at-risk to themselves. Because I offered to help.

I wanted to get this bigger. I wanted to do more.

-- Sarge

Devil Dog Depot Equine Sanctuary and Rescue



DEVIL DOG DEPOT EQUINE SANCTUARY AND RESCUE, LLC., 501(c)3 Public Charity. EIN 87-3056766. Sanctuary and Rescue for all equine (horses, donkeys, mules and ponies) surrendered, displaced, or threatened to be slaughter-bound. Proven malnourishment, sickness, injury and wound care success. Striving to become equine therapy retreat for trauma survivors. Directed by disabled female combat veteran and psychiatric registered nurse.

TAX-DEDUCTIBLE:

Venmo: -Gallentine (last four 0164)

PayPal: [email protected]

Zelle: [email protected]

Checks made out to: Devil Dog Depot Equine Sanctuary and Rescue, 1250 Allentown Loop, Lufkin, TX 75904

One voice can only scream so loud to be heard. A crowd can become a roar. A force. The change.

Where are the warriors at?

05/30/2024

Rescue has brought so much loss, too.

We loved each hard in the little cherished time we had. My heart broke with each.

I held several in my arms and told them how sorry I was others did that to them. That they were good horses that didn't deserve anything but love.

A few seniors passed in their sleep. Bellies full. Safe maybe for the first time during their lives.

Babies, teens, adults and elders. Horses, donkeys and ponies. All too soon in my heart.

I pray they left knowing love. 💔

Devil Dog Depot Equine Sanctuary and Rescue

05/29/2024

Because you like it 😘

05/26/2024

✨️ What You Send Out
✨️ Into The World
✨️ Is What You Get Back

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Actions, energies and intents aren't always met with quick progress. In a society which expects instant rewards and gratification no matter the amount of effort or true passion put in, patience and commitment while staying focus on lasting, sustainable change can feel overwhelming and even hopeless at times.

Something I've struggled with in rescue countless times. There will never be happiness every single day. But there will also never be sadness and loss forever, too.

Yesterday the Marine went to mow down the rapidly growing jungle several bouts of storms kept from upkeep. He rushed inside frantically looking for a box and urging me to come outside. He had miraculously saw a teeny baby Bluejay hidden beneath the tree and right in the path of the mower.

It had fallen at least 40 feet and remnants of a sibling a predator had found lay near it. Too young and without any flight feathers grown in, the task of baby bird rehab is exhausting and the majority of the time, unsuccessful.

BUT YOU HAVE TO TRY! We are creatures with abilities to either help and preserve our ecosystem OR lose it and ripple effect generations to come.

Why does EVERYTHING always happen on holiday weekends??? Plus there are limited wildlife rescue services in our state. Something we've contemplated getting involved in with the encroachment of humans and consequential increase of displaced, abandoned and/or injured wildlife.

Let's dismiss one birdie "old wives' tale." Birds olfactory organs (ability to smell) sucks! Just as fairytales were conjured up to instill real-world warnings, I'm wondering if this may have been to prevent spread of bird-to-human, zoonotic diseases. Which are still very possible, prevalent and can be life-threatening.

I digress ... registered nurse, after all.

Wash hands before and after plus gloves if handy. YOU CAN SAFELY RETURN BABIES TO NEST! I mean wild animals are best kept in the wild with their own parents caring for them. Plus it's illegal to keep many wild species without permits and lots of birds are also protected by federal laws.

Their nest was very far up and impossible to reach. With recent high winds, it may have been damaged too which caused the little one to fall. So, I hung a new one up with hope the parents would find and care for it. Plan B would have been caring for it while frantically getting ahold of a rehab and traveling against time to it.

Unsure if there was internal, or neurological injuries, shock, dehydration -- I put little Ingrid in a plant holder lined in dried grasses and hoped for the best. She still had some liveliness but my heart knew with any rescue there is possibility of loss.

Marine saw the parents taking turns caring for Ingrid first ❤️ He is such a beautiful soul. Protector of all, my Devil Dog personifies "The Proud. The Few." He was ecstatic to tell me his keen-eyed save may infact thrive again. And I've been sitting on the porch since grinning about it, too.

I'll take any victory no matter how small it may seem to others.

Disclaimer: all sorts of various factors would determine how to appropriately help wildlife in need. This baby was near predators, without feathers and near its nesting area. If you have wildlife rescues near you, can get a game warden involved, vet -- please use your best judgement on what is needed for your particular situation -- and your safety, too. Plus, wash your hands A LOT!!!

Devil Dog Depot Equine Sanctuary and Rescue is still here and doing the best with extremely limited resources. I do get upset believing the majority would also want to help at-risk equine with as much passion and conviction as I do -- only to be disappointed to be reminded otherwise.

No creature should suffer. No human should allow it, either. So if me, you, us give up -- its them and future generations who lose. Help us if able. Lots of small efforts DO make big differences even if we can't see them immediately.

Go be good humans 🙏

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DEVIL DOG DEPOT EQUINE SANCTUARY AND RESCUE, LLC., 501(c)3 Public Charity. EIN 87-3056766. Sanctuary and Rescue for all equine (horses, donkeys, mules and ponies) surrendered, displaced, or threatened to be slaughter-bound. Proven malnourishment, sickness, injury and wound care success. Striving to become equine therapy retreat for trauma survivors. Directed by disabled female combat veteran and psychiatric registered nurse.

"Saving Them To Save Us"

▶️▶️▶️ TAX-DEDUCTIBLE DONATIONS 💕

✨LINK:

️https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=QXG2A6N7QYGVE

✨️Venmo: -Gallentine (last four 0164)

✨️PayPal: [email protected]

✨️Zelle: [email protected]

✨️Checks made out to: Devil Dog Depot Equine Sanctuary and Rescue, 1250 Allentown Loop, Lufkin, TX 75904

05/08/2024

Happy Birthday, Marine!!!

19 years together and NEVER ONCE has he wanted to celebrate his born day! Stubborn punk ass ... I'm happy you came into this crazy world ❤️

Happy Birthday to my Marine (and mf'er ... haha ... get it, Mothers Day), Jason Gallentine! I’m so grateful to have such a patient, hard-working, awesome father and husband and most of all, best friend to share my life with. You deserve to be spoiled. You make me want to keep fighting for my health -- you deserve less worry, awesome adventures and lots of titty-time! Here’s to many more years of aging gracefully together, my stud!!! 😘😘😘

PS -- He sent this pic to me while I was deployed to Iraq. My sanity in uncertainty ❤️

Love You!!!

05/05/2024

Didn't want to spook the flock of cow birds in the dead tree out back. Or walk through mushy fields. Or expend any energy, really ... 🤣

But it's cool to see all the critters that visit the property. These guys ate their fill of crawdads in the field then opted for a tree nap 💕

I ate my fill of street tacos and now want a couch nap! Happy Cinco De Mayo!!!

03/21/2024

Still kicking. Sporting gardening sunburn on chest with sweater -- Texas weather acting like it's bipolar self? Doing lots of prep before another drought this summer and before surgery. Dreaming of a shady oasis and my health/energy back.

Sanctuary residents well. Little tribe here well. Missing our Liam bad.

Still keeping a low profile, too. Leaving phone behind more and more. Don't take it personal. I've neglected me so long that I'm paying for it. Once I've got my energy back -- I'll be calling, visiting and catching up with many of you 💕

02/20/2024

Just a quick note to let everyone know that Devil Dog Depot Equine Sanctuary and Rescue is still present and accounted for ... sound off?!? 🤔

We've decided (as a few other rescues and sanctuaries have as well) that we've got too much to focus on with our mission, the residents and our families to dedicate constant social media presence. Donations have been slim to zilch unless a frenzy is created and we prefer less dramatic approaches.

Rescue is constant stress as it is and not all of it is marketable. Feeding, vetting, etc., is always a financial worry but once the horse is deemed safe from imminent danger and in a rescue's care ... the continued, daily needs and costs are forgotten -- and that part is closing doors on many reputable charities.

Lots of glorified horse flippers are getting rich pulling heartstrings with threats of slaughter. They've dominated all social media platforms. Even with recent, horrible cases of dead and missing horses (and other animals in their care) published in news sources, people are still defending them and others similar.

Real rescues are drying up. The problem will only grow and at the horse's expense.

We will focus more within our community for support and try to make if even a small dent to keep a few horses from going to auction or into the hands of "kill buyers." We will also continue to advocate for change and protection of all horses.

It's hard to be in the present and literally hands on when there's a phone screen glued to your face.

We will always be grateful for any support. If you'd like to donate, it's very much appreciated and needed. But we are not going to beg, lie,cheat or steal for growth.

-- Sarge

▶️▶️▶️ TAX-DEDUCTIBLE DONATIONS 💕

✨LINK:

️https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=QXG2A6N7QYGVE

✨️Venmo: -Gallentine (last four 0164)

✨️PayPal: [email protected]

✨️Zelle: [email protected]

✨️Checks made out to: Devil Dog Depot Equine Sanctuary and Rescue, 1250 Allentown Loop, Lufkin, TX 75904

02/19/2024

Gunny and her baby, Sgt. Reckless 💕
Growing like a w**d, she's almost as tall as mama. Both came over to watch the future orchard and forest tree cuttings get watered. 🍃 🐎 🌞

12/30/2023

The world is getting pretty scary. When others are easily swayed into scams, the horses suffer in the end. Credible, extremely long-runned rescues are closing. Talking decades old because of lack of support. And us underdogs don't have a chance.

Doesn't pay to be good, I suppose.

12/28/2023

UPDATE: Good Food for the Soul HAS MARE NOW! Please consider donating directly to this rescue to help with her rehab! Another 501c3 underdog trying to bring more light into this world.

Our sanctuary was tagged in this plea for help. We reached out to see if we could offer assistance to the good Samaritan heading there now.

When will the madness stop??? When will consequences be harsh enough to make humans humane?

Evil ... I get beyond pi**ed on what is ignored and what takes precedence. And laws enforce ownership rights but rarely enforce ownership "wrongs."

Appears other rescues have been alerted, too. Owner surrender or court involvement will be necessary according to livestock laws.

I'll update as the situation plays out and will find out what needs are required by whatever agency intervenes. Let's pray for a good outcome. It's already too late for one.

12/27/2023

As this year draws to a close ...

We will be highlighting some of this year's adoption stories, remembering those who passed and thanking the few who continously have supported us -- through sharing our mission AND through donations.

Coming up on three years! Still haven't managed to raise enough funds for mandatory financial reporting but our little charity will file this year to allow for a real-time assessment and accountability.

Tax time soon ... please consider donating to our mission for a deduction. Ask businesses to help us too! Generosity now will help us with so many needs and we so desperately want to grow our mission. Horses AND people need help. It's a constant struggle for all in rescue and mental health services.

This month has been the lowest in public charity donations. $140 ... IRS designated 501c3 public charities do not receive any special funding. We rely on public donations. Foundation gifts and grants are a rarity.

We are optimistic for a new year. New and better everything! Including a healthier, more lively Sarge who will be having major surgery, soon, from service-connected injuries.

Please ... please consider donating. Tax-deductible and every cent appreciated.

Share to businesses and individuals 🙏

Thank you to the few throughout the years who have helped 💕

-- Sarge

▶️▶️▶️ TAX-DEDUCTIBLE DONATIONS 💕

✨LINK:

️https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=QXG2A6N7QYGVE

✨️Venmo: -Gallentine (last four 0164)

✨️PayPal: [email protected]

✨️Zelle: [email protected]

✨️Checks made out to: Devil Dog Depot Equine Sanctuary and Rescue, 1250 Allentown Loop, Lufkin, TX 75904

12/27/2023

Some days it feels like forever ago. Others, like it was yesterday. Training as a military photojournalist at 18 definitely got a life-long passion started. I was even chose as photography chief in our final cut at DINFOS. Bit of an honor and curse for a teen?!?

Yah ... military don't give a s**t. Stress shapes you ...

I don't haul the expensive equipment around anymore BUT I still love to take photos. And write ad nauseam ...

My little family surprised me with a new phone for the holidays. One with pretty spectacular photo capabilities!!! Like night shots?!? Moon photos!!!

Splendid ...

Full Moon tonight with my rescue horses. Absolutely breathtaking backdrop for these beautiful healers. And thanks to my hubby and kids, I have something capable of capturing to share it all.

Ahyoka is the "white" horse (actually termed grey) in the distance. Captured Socks at the gate with her cute blaze amongst the darkness and light. And then there's a blur in one shot ... I'd like to think it's one of my babies peeking from the Rainbow Bridge. I miss them so much.

This year is almost done. What a tough one in a row. Tomorrows are full of uncertainty. But right now, in this very moment, seconds of peaceful bliss.

Devil Dog Depot Equine Sanctuary and Rescue

12/26/2023

And I own it!!!

Thank you for the holiday wishes and messages! I'll catch up returning the "love," soon ❤️

Weather is permitting outdoor chores so things need done! But sincerely, thank you. My heart needs the reminder at times of the wonderful people in our lives even from afar.

12/25/2023

Getting all festive up in here!!!

Wishing ALL a safe, happy holiday season and better 🤞 New Year to come. ✨️ ✨️✨️

12/24/2023

Had to modify Dale a bit ...

If I was just in my un**es, the neighbors would talk more than they already do??? 🤣 bra and shorts??? Long, colored hair too!

PS -- Devil Dog Depot Equine Sanctuary and Rescue could still use some support!!! Better marketing to come next year 🤞

12/22/2023

Similar to what I pray for my loved ones, every night. Sending Yule blessings to all ✨️✨️✨️

12/04/2023

Angel

12/03/2023

Want the RUSH from "saving" a horse .. in a killpen scheme???

Your hand is free and there are also t*ys for that. Seriously, same psychological chemicals released.

Way less creepier than being screwed by a stranger online.

They really don't love you. They say that to everyone.

Plus you won't have regrets in the morning?

Or want to projectile vomit when the truth comes out.

-- Sarge

Devil Dog Depot Equine Sanctuary and Rescue

12/02/2023

💕🎁🐎DEVIL DOG NEEDS HELP 🐎🎁💕

LEGITIMATE charities across the country are closing with lack of financial support. A 501c3 public charity relies on PUBLIC funding. There are no federal/state incentives with this designation.

And talk within the sector is soul-crushing. Many of the oldest, highly accredited and credible organizations are on the brink of shutting down. Personal savings, retirement funds gone trying to keep charitable missions going. Operating a real, honest equine rescue with the animals' needs actually met is extremely expensive.

We can't compete with massive social media scammers -- ploys pulling at emotional heartstrings with fear-based panic donations. That temporary serotonin rush for donors is lucatritive but in the end, someone is rolling in YOUR money and that horse will disappear.

Watch the news.

Running a legitimate sanctuary is also hard, time-consuming labor. In the barn, out on potential surrenders, working with court seizures, at the vet, wound care ... that is why the majority of us have a near non-existent social media presence. I personally don't have time to appropriately care for them AND be TikTok infamous.

$62 total from two donators over Giving Tuesday. But requests for equine assistance and free mental health therapy sessions NEVER stop coming. There just isn't enough me to pay for it all, work all the work and beg on the side.

Show us some love so we can keep a good flame going in this sometimes very dark world. Push the real rescues and sanctuaries into nonexistentance while funding schemes that only hurt animals in reality, or just ignore us until you need us -- you are promoting animal neglect, suffering and abuse.

Thank you to those few who have helped in the past. We APPRECIATE every single bit 💕

And as a 501c3 public charity all donations are tax-deductible.

Here's some different ways to donate:

Donate here ▶️▶️▶️

https://paypal.me/devildogdepot?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US

Venmo: -Gallentine (last four 0164)

PayPal: [email protected]

Zelle: [email protected]

Checks made out to: Devil Dog Depot Equine Sanctuary and Rescue, 1250 Allentown Loop, Lufkin, TX 75904

Help support your local veteran-operated charity! Devil Dog Depot Equine Sanctuary and Rescue All donations are tax-deductible and VERY appreciated ❤️ 🇺🇸 🐎

Devil Dog Depot Equine Sanctuary and Rescue

11/28/2023

💕🎁🐎BLESS DEVIL DOG DEPOT 🐎🎁💕
‼️‼️‼️Help DESPERATELY Needed‼️‼️‼️

It's Giving Tuesday and Devil Dog Depot Equine Sanctuary and Rescue could sure use some holiday love!!!

Hay rolls are still at $130 each! And our residents require WAY more than just hay.

Plus the darn tractor is STILL DOWN!

Please keep us from sounding like a sad country song! Our mission is at a standstill with limited abilities due to lack of funding. My military retirement only goes so far ...

Show us some love so we can keep a good flame going in this sometimes very dark world.

Thank you to those few who have helped in the past. We APPRECIATE every single bit 💕

And as a 501c3 public charity all donations are tax-deductible.

Here's some different ways to donate:

Donate here ▶️▶️▶️

https://paypal.me/devildogdepot?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US

Venmo: -Gallentine (last four 0164)

PayPal: [email protected]

Zelle: [email protected]

Checks made out to: Devil Dog Depot Equine Sanctuary and Rescue, 1250 Allentown Loop, Lufkin, TX 75904

Help support your local veteran-operated charity! Devil Dog Depot Equine Sanctuary and Rescue All donations are tax-deductible and VERY appreciated ❤️ 🇺🇸 🐎

Pictured: Sarge and her homegirl, killpen rescue mare, Socks. Socks might be "fluffy," now, but came to the sanctuary a barely living skeleton. Fed from a bucket on the ground, I'd lay with her in a stall when she was too weak to stand. She's the herd leader now! You should see her buck (and fart allot) in excitement with every new hay roll 😆

11/24/2023

While off conquering those shopping lists with Black Friday and other holiday deals, please consider adding a few items for Devil Dog Depot Equine Sanctuary and Rescue, too!!!

Tax-deductible and very much appreciated!!! Unlike that tie he doesn't want?!? 🤣

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AMAZON WISHLIST LINK:

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Thank you!!!

11/16/2023

ANNOUNCEMENT

Plagiarism is knowingly taking another's work and crediting as your own. The last post which has since been removed had a byline (author's name crediting). Rarity in FB Land, right? So, if that credit is incorrect, you fix it and state the correction.

Military journalist and newspaper editor.

So, I saw a post and attribution that moved Ol' Sarge. Thought it might move others, too. Little did I know while I was off doing rescue stuff -- a complete s**t show was unraveling on this page. I don't live on my phone nor do I have a team of volunteers, or employees to watch the fort here.

It's me. Trying to save horses and offer equine therapy FOR FREE to all those who reach out.

A simple byline correction. Hell, maybe another rescue to work with to save more horses. No. The toxic side of rescue reared it's nasty head. Threats, libelous statements, total panty-wad madness. I'll get sued for plagiarism (which wasn't what it was as it had a credit that needed correction) followed by credibility-degrading insinuations which can actually be sued!

Granted, most commentors have never made the slightest presence on this page EVER. Some looked like fake/backup accounts. Don't care.

Act like a civilized adult. "Hey, blah blah wrote this. Could you fix the credit?" Of course! My apologies. -- See how that works?

My mission is humble but very real.

Get in my way of helping our local youth overcome trauma, domestic violence survivors finding their inner strength, my fellow veterans FROM TAKING THEIR LIVES -- and I could give a rat's ass about who you think you are.

Play stupid games on here and get a swift combat boot off the page.

Now back to work for me!

-- Sarge

11/16/2023

A HORSE'S WORTH
Written By -- Sarge

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Photo by Jason Gallentine, Marine veteran and husband of Sarge pictured with the late Juno.

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Horses can remember old faces for at least 10 years. They sense a person's emotional status from meters away. Testing has shown their intelligence at par or above than the average canine.

But they won't understand why you've left them at a crowded sale barn. Or what they "did" to deserve a long, cramped trailer ride to a slaughter house. Will they look for you to save them when strung up alive moments before death???

An older, sick, skinny, neglected and/or injured horse has a slim chance of finding a great life at the auction. Legitimate rescues are not funded enough to save them all. It costs ALOT to try to fix what you failed to do. And then there's a massive chance it'll still be too late.

Stop funding the "kill pen" fundraisers, too. Those people make a pretty penny off your emotions. Then those horses disappear -- p**f gone or to another auction -- or possibly among the pile of carcasses somewhere you'll hear about in the news.

Find a verified good home. Or humane euthanasia. They deserve better.

Support legitimate rescues and sanctuaries. Not just the big names. We are inundated with requests for help.

-- Sarge

Dedicated to: Baby Donk Fortunate, Baby Donk Stephen, Donk Big Papa, Donk Junior, Amish Gelding J.R., White Dream Pony Jubilee, One-eyed Hunk Pony Prince, Sweet Mare Juno, and Molly the Hangry Mule -- Always remembered. Loved to the very end. Missed terribly 🐎 🌈 ✨️

Devil Dog Depot Equine Sanctuary and Rescue

DEVIL DOG DEPOT EQUINE SANCTUARY AND RESCUE, LLC
501(c)3 Public Charity licensed through the State of