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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.
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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.

08/29/2024

We have safely arrived at ride camp for the Grand Canyon XP Ride. Horses are all settled in. We have to drive a few miles to get service, so we are planning to come to this spot once per day to post updates.

08/29/2024

We are on route to the Grand Canyon XP Endurance Ride with six horses! 🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎

08/28/2024

Charming will hopefully be at his first endurance ride in October, at the Bill Thornburgh Ride! We have several horses that will be ready by then, hopefully we will have enough riders. We won’t have training/riding interns again until the middle of September. We will have quite a few horses ready by then.

08/28/2024

We are pooped, our backs hurt, our feet hurt! But we are packed and ready to leave to AZ to compete with six of our horses at the Grand Canyon XP Endurance Ride.
We packed 7 saddles (just in case), 8 saddle pads, 12 girths, 7 bridles, 6 warm blankets (it gets cold in the north rim of the Grand Canyon), 6 cooling blankets for after the ride, cooling wraps for the legs, standing wraps with polo wraps, emergency first aid for horses & for humans, plenty of buckets and hay bags, grooming supplies, electrolytes, supplements, two bags of grain, two bags of shredded beet pulp, 8 bales of hay (120 pound rectangle bales, stashed on the top of the trailer, stocked the hay mangers and filled water buckets, … oh boy, now we have to pack the people stuff still.

08/28/2024

This is a good Arabian rescue located in Michigan. This mare would make a good endurance horse. Contact the rescue if you are interested in meeting this mare.

08/27/2024

Falcon was a three-year-old unhandled stallion just a few months ago, when he came to us as part of a law enforcement seizure. He was in total survival mode on top of it. He is a gelding now and Tamarah has tirelessly worked with him. He is growing and flourishing!

08/27/2024

It always makes us very happy when we get updates of our adopted horses. Remember “Two Step Betty”? She is kicking butt and taking names in the Northwest AERC region. We could not be prouder of Jessica and Betty! 💖

For those not familiar with Betty’s story, we rescued her from a loose horse auction in MT. We got a call by an auction attendee who told us that an Arabian was going to run through the loose horse auction. We said: “Grab the horse.” We want to keep Arabian’s out of the auction pipeline and all the big horse traders from TX were present. It turned out that Betty was dumped all the way in MT by a horse trainer out of San Diego. (Shameful, we agree!)

Vera had to drive to MT to pick up Betty. What a long drive! Betty turned out to be a NSH (Arabian/Saddlebred) and she had a big cyst on her face. We got the cyst removed and got Betty to gain some weight. Then we started working with Betty.

Initially, Betty was adopted by a long time, elderly endurance rider out of Canada. But Betty and the lady just did not click. Betty came back to us. We kept Betty for a while and Erna rode LDs and a 50 (in record time) on Betty. Jessica and her mom traveled down from Idaho and both fell in love with Betty. Both ride her, as does Jessica’s daughter. We could not be happier for our Betty. 💖🐴💖

08/26/2024

Ships to slaughter today! We need $1,500.
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Now that we have gotten your attention, please help us with the intake cost of Spirit, a 10-year-old neglected Arabian mare, that came to us via Los Angeles County Animal Control on Saturday.

She will need to be vetted, properly halter trained (she is fairly unhandled), teeth floated, immunized, microchipped, feet trimmed and fattened up.

If you’d like to help us, we’d appreciate your donations:
🐴 PayPal.me/lovethishorse
🐴 Venmo lovethishorse (1712)
🐴 Zelle 818-857-1769
🐴 via our website lovethishorse.org (where you can also sign up to be a monthly donor)
🐴Facebook Donate

Thank you for your support. 💖🐴💖 We do not understand that when there are the “ships to slaughter unless you send us your lunch money” posts, people contribute hundreds if not thousands of dollars in donations towards those rescue posts. Many times, once the funds are collected, the horse is never mentioned again. But those fundraising posts get attention and get the donations. Yet when real rescues assist local law enforcement agencies and local horse owners in need, it’s crickets?

We have received just under $400 in donation assistance toward Spirit. That is not even going to cover her vet bills because her back needs to be x-rayed, her teeth need to be floated, she needs a f***l count done, she needs to be immunized. She needs several months of refeeding. She needs farrier care. Her intake and three months of feeding will cost around $1,500. And guess what! There is NO BAIL cost to be paid to a slimy horse trader!

08/26/2024

Video summary of yesterday’s visit of Brioklynne and her mom Ashlee. Riding one last time before their first endurance ride next weekend. Ashlee is the president of our local Arabian Horse Association Club.

Then you see them snuggling with Falcon who is the three year old who was part of the eight unhandled stallions that were part of a law enforcement seizure. Not so unhandled anymore!

The third part is Spirit who came to us from Los Angeles County Animal Control this weekend.

08/26/2024

Pepper LTH ridden by Ashlee who is going to ride her first endurance ride with us next weekend at the Grand Canyon XP Ride. We are so excited that Ashlee and her daughter Brooklynne will be coming along with us to ride their first endurance ride! It’s also going to be Ashlee’s birthday!

08/26/2024

Today, we went on one last training ride with Erna’s mentee before heading to the Grand Canyon XP endurance ride this week. Brooklynne did great as always, but we ran into some tack issues, which are now resolved and we will be all good at the ride.

08/25/2024

Adonis is progressing nicely in his training. After he was “rounded up” he and another stallion fought through the fence and he cut his left front lower leg. It was superficial but because of the circumstances, he could not get doctored as a handled horse would have been. It has created an ugly scar on the front and on the back of the same leg is another scar. From what we can tell, and from his vet check up, it was superficial. But now that he is trained, we will have an ultrasound done by Dr. Sullivan who is an orthopedic specialist.

If you remember, we took in eight unhandled stallions from a law enforcement seizure. Since the herd was located near the main BLM station in northern California, they assisted in the round up of the herd of unhandled feral Arabians. Of the eight, seven are trained to lead, pick up feet, etc. two that are old enough are being saddle trained. One of the boys, the second youngest, has been a challenge and has been difficult to halter train. His name is Chong. We will get there eventually. Adonis has been the easier one to saddle train.

08/24/2024

Please welcome Spirit, a 10-year-old neglected Arabian mare, that is coming to us via Los Angeles County Animal Control. She will need to be vetted, properly halter trained (she is fairly unhandled), teeth floated, immunized, microchipped, feet trimmed and fattened up.

If you’d like to help us, we’d appreciate your donations:
🐴 PayPal.me/lovethishorse
🐴 Venmo lovethishorse (1712)
🐴 Zelle 818-857-1769
🐴 via our website lovethishorse.org (where you can also sign up to be a monthly donor)
🐴Facebook Donate

Thank you for your support. 💖🐴💖

08/24/2024

We have been using Equi-Cool-Down products for a while now and especially love the leg wraps because there is no ice needed to use them.

The neck wrap works very well to cool a horse down and to bring their heart rate down. We’ve seen people use wet towels but those actually trap the heat.

The blanket works very well too, but at a ride, you don’t cover the horse’s croup area, the muscles need to stay warm.

We like these products so much that we have decided to become distributors and use the earnings toward the rescue’s hay bill. We will be bringing extras to upcoming endurance rides, so that you can try them out on your horses.

Here is the url for you to get a 10% discount off your order and we get the credit:

https://www.equicooldown.com/?coupon=vera10

08/24/2024

This is a quote from our rescue director for a 2023 article about what it means to rescue a horse. Recently there have been several rescues that have spoke to the problematic practice of “mass bailing of horses”.

There are several mega-mass-bailing horse rescues that have become well known via social media. They attend auctions and visit horse trader lots and start fundraising for 20, 30, 40, 50…120 horses in one auction or one weekend. They do this once per month, 12 times per year.

At 20 horses per month, that’s 240 per year…and at the higher end,that’s over 1,000 horses per year! It’s a massive effort to quarantine, vet care, farrier care, train, etc. each one of these horses and the main concern is that it’s not possible to do this with the large number of horses that keep being “rescued”.

As a result, many horses that needed rehabilitation and could possibly have been rehabilitated are euthanized. Yes, many need mercy and euthanasia is the kindest option, but often euthanasia was not necessary.

Many times horses are immediately “adopted out” or are sent to other rescues. Thereby the rescuing organization has very little control or oversight as to what happens to those horses. If the horses are sent to a good rescue that actually rehabilitates horses, that’s a good thing, but many times horses end up in hoarding situations, they do not receive necessary care and often end up starved or dead. Over the past years there have been many such situations where law enforcement had to step in. One of the worst cases, 50+ starved horse carcasses were found on a rescue property.

Often times, the private adoptive homes turn out to be people who want free horses and they take the horses to the next auction to make a quick dollar.

In the worst scenario, the rescues itself dumps horses back at auction or has them leave on a truck to Mexico to a slaughterhouse.

It feels good to think that a horse was helped out of a bad situation at a low end auction. It’s a quick high to know the donation helped buy a horse. But don’t stop there, follow the horse you donated towards and ask update questions. Sometimes rescues get really busy, so ask.

If horses are bought at auction or horse trader lots and there are never any updates on the individual horses, ask questions for updates. We are standing by our director’s quote as to what a “good” rescue does.

08/24/2024

This is Kristina. She will make a great trail and arena horse for someone, we doubt she has the endurance stamina, but we are planning on taking her to next weekend’s Grand Canyon XP Ride. It will be helpful as part of her training to trailer and camp.

08/23/2024

Pepper LTH is fit and sound. We are so happy for her. She will be riding at the Grand Canyon XP Ride over Labor Day Weekend.

08/23/2024

A long time retired Tevis rider gifted her Tevis buckle, that she had made into a hackamore band, to Erna. The lady is 82 years old now and is retired from riding. We are going to display the buckle as a keepsake until Erna has earned her Tevis buckle, then we will refurbish it into a bridle. That gives us time to find a leather worker who can do this for us. This is an amazing gift to receive. The letter that was included explained that the lady wanted to gift it to someone who’d have appreciation for it. Erna really was so excited to receive such a thoughtful gift.

08/23/2024

Eqaadir “Q” on trail today, condition ride. It was a relatively cool day, so refreshing! He is not available because he belongs to one of our adopters. He is back from trail and endurance training. He was successfully shown as a halter horse and then was trained some in western pleasure. We are working on him to relax and stretch his neck. Unfortunately that’s the neck position that’s desired for western pleasure.

08/22/2024

Here is the link to our May endurance ride:
https://www.lovethishorsearabianrescue.org/lth-endurance-ride.html

The website page is a work in progress and as we progress in its preparation, we will post updates. Our goal is to have all junior and young riders’ entry fees sponsored.

Let us know what you think. We are also considering adding a 100-mile trail evening ride, just in case it’s a warm day. We looked at 10 years of weather data. We are talking to some ride managers on the East Coast where there are night rides.

08/22/2024

Adonis is really progressing nicely! Erna is riding him now at a walk. The photos and videos from yesterday’s training session did not turn out. So much for Tamarah’s photography skills! 😩 Adonis is eight years old and 14.3h tall. He is not a tall horse, but he is strong & solid! Adonis has a calm and easy going personality.

08/22/2024

How do you feel about riding at night? What is your experience?

08/21/2024

“Why am I wearing girl colors? I am a BOY! And then you try to give me a piece of carrot 🥕 to make up for the purple bridle? NO, that’s not how this is supposed to work!” — Freddie is the cutest solid colored Appaloosa gelding! We are working with him to prep him for the Grand Canyon Endurance Ride.

08/20/2024

Our handsome Armani is adopted. His new mom has experience with horses that have Armani’s personality. We are really looking forward to Armani growing up into a great riding horse.

08/20/2024

In 2018, we adopted out a mare that was pregnant and this is her “foal”. 😊 He is a gorgeous gelding who is learning to be an endurance horse. (No, he is not available for adoption. He is back with us to complete his training.) 😊 He is smart, curious and very willing, plus super cute! His nickname is Q. 😊

08/20/2024

It’s on the AERC Ride Calendar for May 3rd & 4th, 2025 our own Love this Horse Endurance Ride. Distances are Intro, 25, 50 & 65 miles, located in Ridgecrest, CA.

We hope that you will join us at our first ride!

08/19/2024

We are on the 730-mile drive back from the 2024 AERC National Championship Ride to Home. It was an amazing weekend of riding. TU Amira Eleganza and Holly placed in 2nd place in the Open LD Ride. Sharif and Vera placed in 3rd place in the Open LD Ride and also won the Best Condition Award.

Sadly, Susannah on Ely in the 100-mile ride, Erna on Love Story in the 75-mile ride, and Leah on ES California Dreamin (Spencer) in the 50-mile ride all got pulled at the same vet check, nine miles before their respective finish lines. We are calling it “The Nine Mile Curse”! They rode 91, 66, and 42 miles respectively.

Ely spooked at something just before the 9-mile vet check and twisted his left front leg somehow. Love Story had a cramp on the inside of her left back leg. Erna thinks that in the last hill, the sandy ground gave way as they were riding up that hill. Spencer was off on his front left leg for some reason (we are having him examined in depth this week for that).

As we are driving back on this long trip, we asked ourselves if we’d do this ride again and it was a unanimous yes! The ride was extremely well organized, everyone was so amazingly kind and friendly, the ride camp and trails were gorgeous, and we got to make many new friends.

08/17/2024

Susanna and her rescue horse Ely just came back mid-ride vet check, they are riding the AERC Championship 100 mile Ride today.

08/17/2024

Vera on Sharif won the Best Condition “BC” Award at the AERC Championship Open LD Ride. 💖 Go Vera & Sharif! 💖

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8800 Wetzel Lane
Mojave, CA
93501

Website

http://www.lovethishorsearabianrescue.org/

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Videos

Video summary of yesterday’s visit of Brioklynne and her mom Ashlee. Riding one last time before their first endurance ride next weekend. Ashlee is the president of our local Arabian Horse Association Club. Then you see them snuggling with Falcon who is the three year old who was part of the eight unhandled stallions that were part of a law enforcement seizure. Not so unhandled anymore! The third part is Spirit who came to us from Los Angeles County Animal Control this weekend. #ltharabianrescue #lthfalcon #lthspirit #lthspencer #enduranceriding

Pepper LTH is fit and sound. We are so happy for her. She will be riding at the Grand Canyon XP Ride over Labor Day Weekend. #ltharabianrescue #lthpepper

Amira placed in 2nd place for the AERC Championship Open LD Ride today. She is such an amazing mare! Her mom Holly is so excited! #ltharabianrescue #enduranceriding #lthamira

Love Story and Amira were highly offended that they were being ponied out on trail today. It was easier than walking two horses per person! We did a nice little 4-mile trail ride. #ltharabianrescue #enduranceriding

From this morning’s training ride. Brooklyn riding up front on Spencer. Brooklyn is being mentored by Erna and will ride her first endurance ride at the Grand Canyon XP Ride at the end of the month. That’s Vera filming with her phone on Sharif. Erna is coming up from behind with Love Story. We rode 10 miles early early this morning, average speed was 7.9 miles/hour, top speed was 13 miles/hour. #ltharabianrescue #enduranceriding

Adonis is progressing nicely in his saddle training. He is 14.3h and 8 years old. This is his first ride. Disclaimer for the armchair trainers: He looks like a drunk walking on eggshells- but all horses do when they are learning to navigate walking with a rider in their back. The funny thing is when we post training videos of first rides, inevitably someone will comment, “the horse looks lame” or “something is off on the horse’s back end”, etc. NO! Part of being started under saddle is for the horse to learn to walk and balancing himself with a rider. This is a normal process and the horse is NOT lame. 😆 #lthadonis #ltharabianrescue

The Horse Talk Show

Today, Erna and our rescue were featured on “The Horse Talk Show”. Here is a link to the full show: https://fb.watch/tOsupO50Tt/?mibextid=v7YzmG

Thank you for all the kind messages- we have rescued over 600 Arabian horses since we officially started our rescue. Many of our horses have had ailments or are aged, where they are not adoptable. They stay with us until they cross the rainbow 🌈 bridge. We try to give them a good life until then. We have some oldies that have been with us for close to ten years! These horses may not have value to most people, but they are beautiful souls and we love them. We have over 60 of these sanctuary horses. We never intended to be a sanctuary, only ever wanted to be a rescue. It’s expensive to have sanctuary horses, especially the old ones because they require extra feeding. We have a few that cost almost $450/month to feed. Many rescues/sanctuaries will euthanize a horse that is expensive to feed, but we see their sparkle and will to live. Catata is such a horse. Feisty and full of life, but a super hard keeper. He does best on Total Equine, $30/bag at its cheapest. $450/month just for Catata, plus alfalfa hay. We also have Jimmy, Artimus, Chism, and Mister Bean in the $450 per month club. 🤣 This is why we call our monthly donors our Hay Angels. 😇 We could not do this without you. $10, $20, $50 per month. It really all adds up and together you make a difference in providing these oldies a retirement where they are happy, after having a rough life. Simply visit our website lovethishorse.org and click on the donation button, follow the directions to sign up. Again thank you for your kindness and generosity.

Here is the link to the news story and the televised news video. Click on the link and at the top is a link to the video, in addition to the written news story. https://www.foxla.com/news/local-teen-competes-grueling-equestrian-race-rescued-horse #roadtotevis2024 #ltharabianrescue #LTHLoveStory #tevis2024 #enduranceriding

“Good boy Freddie!” ~ He is our Appaloosa gelding who came in with an Arabian and Morgan gelding. He was said to have been ridden as a youngster. He is 13 years old and 14.2h tall. Freddie is learning and is waking out nicely now with a rider. Freddie is incredibly sweet! Next step is to get him out on trail, we don’t like overworking them in the roundpen. It’s an unnatural setting and riding out with other horses gets more accomplished than riding alone in a roundpen. #lthfreddie #ltharabianrescue #appaloosahorse

When you take a 10-year-old young rider under your wings and she got what it takes to make an endurance rider! Erna is coaching Brooklyn. She is the young girl who pestered her mom until she drove nine hours to meet up with Erna at Tevis. Brooklyn is riding ES California Dreamin (aka Spencer) who is one of our mentor horses. They will ride Brooklyn’s first endurance ride together this fall. #enduranceriding #ltharabianrescue #lthspencer #nextgenerationendurance

Love Story in November 2020, one month after rescue. She was not touchable back then. #lthlovestory

Keziah compiled this beautiful video of Erna and Susannah at Tevis. It’s such a well done and beautiful video. 💖 Erna and Susannah rode as far as Foresthill (mile 66). They had been affected by the accident that happened just before Devil’s Thumb and spent extra time inside the hot canyons which really affected the horses. Even though they were given one extra hour to complete and the horses passed their vet check at Foresthill, they decided to Rider Option (RO) and pull the horses out of the race at that point. The horses were tired and had given so much that day. Horses always come first. The Tevis completion buckle will be there waiting for Erna next year. Susannah has earned several Tevis buckles in the past. Erna and Susannah are already planning for #teviscup2025 #ltharabianrescue #LTHLoveStory #teviscup2024 #enduranceriding #roadtotevis2024

Some video from Robinson’s Flat’s one hour vet hold. There is no cellphone reception at the vet stops. Sorry, it delays posting updates.

Coming into Robinson’s Flat this morning at 11:15 a.m.

Coming into Robinson’s Flat this morning at 11:15 a.m. Erna with Love Story and Susannah with Eli.

Davey

Davey is a very gentle Arabian gelding who came to us via owner relinquishment. His owner passed away and the family wanted Davey to have a soft landing. Davey was ridden by a 70+ year old lady who preferred leisurely trail rides. Davey is 13 years old and stands at 14.3 hands. He has been with us for a few months now and is still gaining weight. He was a little skinny when he arrived with us. He will have an adoption profile soon. #lthdavey #ltharabianrescue

Erna was a guest on the Los Angeles news station, KTLA Channel 5, this afternoon. She spoke about her journey developing a partnership with Love Story, her preparations for the Tevis Cup, and her love for endurance riding. We are so proud of her. Only a few more days until Tevis! Thank you everyone for your support, and thank you to KTLA for having us on. 🐴✨ #ltharabianrescue #LTHLoveStory #enduranceriding #teviscup2024 #roadtotevis2024 #rescuehorses

Fire

Fire - we moved all the horses from the north side of the property - we did have some horses get kicked and injured in the process because our former stallions are in cramped quarters at the moment. According to what we were told, it is an arsonist that is starting all the fires in our area.