Horse Adoption and Rescue
Honesty, integrity, compassion. The Midwest Horse Welfare Foundation, Inc. (MHWF), has been on a mission in Wisconsin to help bring awareness and education to the public regarding horse adoption, horse rescue and horse welfare since 2001. From the period of 2001 to 2018, MHWF has saved more than 1500 horses from an uncertain fate and have put more than 1200 horses into adoptive homes directly through MHWF's equine adoption program. The equines that come to MHWF receive the best of care and are provided a healthy environment where they can heal from neglect or abuse and feel like they are home, and will move on to be adopted when they are physically and emotionally ready and up to date with all of their cares. We are happy to work alongside the Wisconsin Horse Alliance to help facilitate their mission of working to ensure the safety and well-being of Wisconsin's horses, through empowering owners, coordinating resources, and educating the community. MHWF is continually striving to add more programs and services to help our equine community and equines throughout the United States.
MHWF helps any equines who have found themselves in a transition in their life, whether that means that they wound up in a bad situation, neglected and/or abused or their person could no longer keep them for whatever many different reasons that may be, they all need a place to go and they all need to be cared for and loved. Many horses each year wind up in very bad situations of neglect and anywhere between 70,000 to 100,000 horses wind up in the slaughter pipeline each year because of landing in the wrong spot. We are working to help as many horses as we possibly can and this includes taking in, rehabilitating and finding great homes for horses. At the same time, educating people about owning a horse and horse adoption. We want to see horse adoption be the route that more people choose when looking for an equine partner. We continue to add more ways of showing that rescued and adoption horses are just as great as any other horse out there, including our yearly Fun Show as well as the Midwest Rescue Horse Trainers Challenge.
MHWF's strategic goals include increasing equine adoption, being a support system for law enforcement and helping to strengthen cruelty laws, increasing awareness of support systems and help to build those systems available to horse owners to keep their horse, geld their horse or euthanize their horse when they are unable to accomplish this on their own. MHWF is a no-kill shelter, meaning that they do not euthanize horses for space, and sometimes there will be horses who will wind up spending many years with MHWF.
“There are no unwanted horses, just unfound connections. Let us help you find your connection”, Midwest Horse Welfare Foundation, Inc.
