Love this Horse, Equine Rescue Inc.

Love this Horse, Equine Rescue Inc. "Love This Horse, Equine Rescue Inc." is a 501(c)(3) Arabian horse rescue located in Southern California. We believe that every horse deserves a job.

is a horse rescue specializing in taking in forgotten, neglected and abused Arabian horses from local animal shelters, distressed owners, and from local horse auctions. We bring them into a safe and nurturing environment, where they are brought back to health are gentled and loved. When the horses are strong enough, they are evaluated by Vera and Eileen, and if possible, restarted for a new life a

s a riding horse. For some of our horses, this means becoming a great trail or lesson horses. Others are destined to become therapy horses, helping kids and adults healing from their own deep wounds. We work hard to take care of these horses, all the while knowing that the horses are secretly taking care of us.

Long Legs Louise is one heck of a sweet and talented mare. We are so in love with her! Erna loves riding her and we are ...
12/20/2024

Long Legs Louise is one heck of a sweet and talented mare. We are so in love with her! Erna loves riding her and we are going to compete with her at an endurance ride next weekend as part of her training. After that weekend, she will be available for adoption, though you may have to pry her out of Erna’s hands! 😜

Louise is 12 years old (aged by the dental vet), she is 17+ hands tall, has the nice dishy big hooves. She is the sweetest horse! She doesn’t even mind the geldings bumping into her on trail or having them ride up on her. She just takes it in stride. Louse can cover some ground! She has a long stride.

There are the two youngest residents at Love this Horse. The pinto filly is Ashoka who was born to one of our rescued ma...
12/19/2024

There are the two youngest residents at Love this Horse. The pinto filly is Ashoka who was born to one of our rescued mare in May 2023.

The bay filly (that is going to turn grey) is Dora who came to us from auction with her mom. We don’t know her exact birthdate, but we think it was around May 2023 as well, based on her age when we rescued her in November 2023.

12/19/2024

Nemo is progressing nicely in his saddle training. He is a BLM mustang. He is one of the BLM mustangs that showed up at the gate of our rescue ranch last spring. He, along with the other two mustangs, had been adopted by a man who had abandoned them at a boarding stable (it was a pretty runs down charro backyard actually). They just opened their gates and let them run into the desert to get rid of them.

Vera wrote 150 holiday cards thus far to send to our donors to thank them. However, for many donors, we only have email ...
12/19/2024

Vera wrote 150 holiday cards thus far to send to our donors to thank them. However, for many donors, we only have email addresses. So, if you receive an email asking for your postal mailing address, it’s not spam, it’s us asking for your mailing address. ❤️❤️❤️

Nothing more beautiful than having horses rest in the sunshine. We have had beautiful weather this week, so grateful for...
12/19/2024

Nothing more beautiful than having horses rest in the sunshine. We have had beautiful weather this week, so grateful for that.

Charming chilling with Charlotte, one of our interns. Charming is ready to find his adoptive home. You can visit his ad...
12/18/2024

Charming chilling with Charlotte, one of our interns. Charming is ready to find his adoptive home. You can visit his adoption profile on our website lovethishorse.org under “adoptable horses”.

is one of the four unhandled Alkhamsa stallions that we rescued two years ago at Christmas. His breeder had suffered a stroke and was hospitalized unable to communicate. Everyone assumed that he had someone at his ranch to feed the horses. That turned out not to be true and when he died a few weeks later and his family went to his house, the herd of horses was starving and consequently 13 horses had died.

Vera drove to Oklahoma, by herself, over Christmas 2022 to rescue the unhandled stallions when no other rescue in the TX/OK area could/would help the horses. Stone Valleys Ray of Hope,
a Michigan based Arabian horse rescue, took in the mares through their vast network of foster homes.

Go get yourself the new January/February “Horse Illustrated” magazine! It features a multi-page article about Erna’s and...
12/18/2024

Go get yourself the new January/February “Horse Illustrated” magazine! It features a multi-page article about Erna’s and Susannah’s Tevis Ride experiences and also about our rescue. It is such a nice article!
Merri Melde

12/18/2024

Starting horses under saddle takes a lot of patience and listening to the horse to ensure that the training is at the individual horse’s speed.

Our sweet Theodore had his standing CT scan done at Alamo Pintado Hospital with Dr. Carter Judy. He is a specialist and ...
12/17/2024

Our sweet Theodore had his standing CT scan done at Alamo Pintado Hospital with Dr. Carter Judy. He is a specialist and very well known. When he talked to us after the scan, he told us that he had never seen anything like this in all the years he has been an orthopedic veterinarian and that he is going to be consulting with other specialists veterinarians to come up with a diagnosis and (hopefully) treatment plan.

We had this saddle donated to sell. It is a Tex-Tan Tex-Flex western saddle. The seat size is 16” (it actually measures ...
12/16/2024

We had this saddle donated to sell. It is a Tex-Tan Tex-Flex western saddle.

The seat size is 16” (it actually measures 17” across the seat, but because the cantle is really high, it makes the seat fit smaller). The saddle skirt is 16.5 long and the D-D measurement (front width is 6.5”. The saddle weights about 30 pounds.

We would like to sell it for $450 plus actual shipping cost (if you can’t pick up). Message us if you are interested.

It does not matter how fancy the breeding, it matters that horses are handled and trained! We picked up yet another two ...
12/16/2024

It does not matter how fancy the breeding, it matters that horses are handled and trained! We picked up yet another two unhandled stallions. Yes, both have the same Polish breeding. They are nicely put together. But how does that set them up for a good future without handling and training?

It takes a lot to halter train, geld, and then saddle train horses that start off as unhandled stallions. There are so many unhandled Arabian horses in the United States. Most of them have been bred by breeders who used to have it under control. But now they are aged, many only on social security, yet they never stopped breeding, even though they don’t have their health, strength or financial means anymore to do right by their horses.

Fortunately, we were able to intercept these two stallions before some horse trader or killpen trader got their hands on them.

We are calling the grey stallion “Shiny”, he is five years old and we are calling the chestnut stallion “Intention”, he is four years old. We do not know how their respective ears got injured.

Any volunteers available near Alamo Pintado Equine Hospital in the Santa Ynez, CA area? Our sweet Theodore is traveling ...
12/15/2024

Any volunteers available near Alamo Pintado Equine Hospital in the Santa Ynez, CA area? Our sweet Theodore is traveling to the hospital today where he is scheduled to have a standing CT scan tomorrow morning (Monday, Dec 16), on his right back hoof to see if Dr. Judy can get rid of the growth in his right hoof.

Here is what Dr. Judy stated it could be: “In regards to the coffin bone lesion there are several possible causes

Chronic infection of the area
A keratoma (benign tumor of the hoof) that results in pressure of the region and subsequent bone resorption and bone lysis
A neoplasm (cancer) of other etiology. I have seen squamous cell carcinomas in this location before but could be a variety of different types
A true bone “cyst”
Traumatic resorption - This is considered less likely.”

But only a CT scan can tell us more. Theodore is only six years old and he deserves a chance of having a good life. Fortunately, a small foundation that was set up to help horses in such cases is paying for the diagnostics and will pay if surgery is an option of improving Theodore’s life chances. We were so fortunate to find the foundation to help us.

However, Alamo Pintado Equine Hospital is far from our ranch and we have to be at work/school tomorrow and cannot be present to document with photos/video Theodore’s appointment. I know that we have several followers in the geographic area. Message us if you can help.

We are dropping Theodore off at the hospital today, Sunday, December 15. The CT scan is scheduled for tomorrow morning, December 16.

If you remember Theodore’s story…he was used for horse tripping as a young stallion at an illegal charro rodeo. Then he was “cowboy castrated” without anesthesia by the same guys who were going to dump him at a low end auction. He was with a horse trader who contacted us because Theodore was such a mess, the auction would probably have rejected him.

12/15/2024

Moo Moo 🐮 is living her best life.
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We had to say good bye to Amber today. She was one of our longtime sanctuary horses. We rescued her from auction four ye...
12/14/2024

We had to say good bye to Amber today. She was one of our longtime sanctuary horses. We rescued her from auction four years ago. Shortly after, she gave birth to a very premature foal that was the size of a mid-size dog and only weight 48 pounds (100 to 120 pounds would have been a normal birth weight). The foal named Neo survived and is a happy youngster at the rescue ranch. Amber had been used by charros in match racing and was doped up for those races. She was super lame and in poor health when we rescued her.

Amber became a happy healthy horse, but in the last six months she developed insulin resistance and we had such a hard time with her losing weight, getting weak, her joints were hurting her and her feet were always sore even with specialty shoes. We got her on the right dosage of meds and she was doing better, but then started to severely decline in the last two weeks and she was losing weight rapidly. The vet suspected organ failure on top of the insulin issues.

Amber was the sweetest mare. She ruined quite a few panels at the rescue ranch because she was a constant cribber! We will miss her so much and it was hard to say goodbye. She is running free again.

12/14/2024

Josephine LTH spent most of the summer in pasture on vacation. It’s time that she gets back to work so that we can find a permanent adoptive home for her. She is broke to ride and even finished a 25-mile LD ride this year. One thing about Josephine is that she really needs to bond with her rider and during a two-hour adoption visit, that won’t happen. She is a National Show Horse (half Arabian/half Saddlebred), 15.2h tall and seven years old. She likes to jump (not high, but cavalletis) and she likes riding in the arena. On trail, she like to snort at things, but it’s just snorting, not anything worse.

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Nemo is progressing nicely in his saddle training. He is a BLM mustang. He is one of the BLM mustangs that showed up at the gate of our rescue ranch last spring. He, along with the other two mustangs, had been adopted by a man who had abandoned them at a boarding stable (it was a pretty runs down charro backyard actually). They just opened their gates and let them run into the desert to get rid of them. #ltharabianrescue #lthnemo #blmmustang

Starting Horses
Starting Horses

Starting horses under saddle takes a lot of patience and listening to the horse to ensure that the training is at the individual horse’s speed. #ltharabianrescue #startinghorses #gentlewaytostarthorses

Moo Moo 🐮 is living her best life. #ltharabianrescue #arabiancow 🤣 #lthmoomoo

Josephine LTH spent most of the summer in pasture on vacation. It’s time that she gets back to work so that we can find a permanent adoptive home for her. She is broke to ride and even finished a 25-mile LD ride this year. One thing about Josephine is that she really needs to bond with her rider and during a two-hour adoption visit, that won’t happen. She is a National Show Horse (half Arabian/half Saddlebred), 15.2h tall and seven years old. She likes to jump (not high, but cavalletis) and she likes riding in the arena. On trail, she like to snort at things, but it’s just snorting, not anything worse. #ltharabianrescue #lthjosephine #nationalshowhorse

Nemo, our little BLM gelding is coming along nicely. We struggle to get our training sessions in during the winter when we don’t have much daylight after work/school. #lthnemo #blmmustang

Charming
Charming

Prince Charming on trail yesterday afternoon. He has completed two intro rides and if we had space in our trailer, he’d come to the December endurance ride with us. Charming has an adoption profile on our website lovethishorse.org #ltharabianrescue #rescuehorsesrock #ridearescue #enduranceriding #lthcharming

Louise
Louise

Long Legs Louise on trail yesterday afternoon. This mare is amazing and we are planning on having her ride her first LD ride this month. #saddlebredhorse #ltharabianrescue #rescuehorsesrock #ridearescue #enduranceriding

Louise and Charming
Louise and Charming

Louise and Charming getting ready for this evening’s trail ride. Charming looks like a shorty next to Louise, but he likes his women tall! #lthlouise #lthcharming #ltharabianrescue #saddlebredhorse #arabianhorse

At the end of yesterday’s trail ride. This contraption is there to prevent people from bringing bikes into the nature preserve. Long Legs Louise and Charming rode across like it was nothing. #ltharabianrescue #lthlouise #saddlebred #lthcharming

Nemo
Nemo

This is Nemo, he is the sweetest gelding and is also a branded BLM Mustang. We have been working with him for the last few months and he loves people. Nemo is not a big horse, about 14h, and he is six years old. He is truly the sweetest boy! He came right us unhandled (he was part of the group of three mustangs that had been dumped near our ranch and who came to our gate), but he has been the easiest horse to work with! We should be getting his title soon. #lthnemo #blmmustang

Here is the link and a preview video of our fundraising calendar- please order one for yourself for gift giving: https://www.createphotocalendars.com/Store/LTHER+2025-1244161534

Riding at the “Carolina Ride” in Patrick, South Carolina. #ltharabianrescue #enduranceriding
Riding at the “Carolina Ride” in Patrick, South Carolina. #ltharabianrescue #enduranceriding

Riding at the “Carolina Ride” in Patrick, South Carolina. #ltharabianrescue #enduranceriding

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