GRG Ranch Horse Rescue & Sanctuary

09/15/2025

🪣 The first 4 fashion forward friends sporting our crafty feed buckets. For when you're sick of your feed bags biting the dust...

Added bonus? WAY easier to clean!! 🧼

09/14/2025

🦄❤️‍🩹 Dinky Dolly Parton: "Don't mind me. I'm just over here being all magical and stuff..." ✨️

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09/14/2025

09/13/2025

🐴❤️‍🩹 Raise your hand if you have the most INCREDIBLE volunteers on the planet!! 🙋‍♀️ Talk about busting B***Y and truly getting into.the work!!

🙏 I cannot say thank you enough to this incredible crew!! From getting the blankets and fly gear all squeaky clean, to picking up donated hay, to grooming of the ponies. You bust it out and give your all for these rescue kids, and my gratitude is endless. 💜

🤔 Are you interested in volunteering your time and talents to help rescues as they heal and get ready for their forever homes? 🐴 For more information or to complete a volunteer application, email us at [email protected] or visit our website at www.grgranch.org

09/13/2025

🤔 Are you interested in volunteering your time and talents to help rescues as they begin their best lives? Join us at our first volunteer meet and greet of 2025!!

🐴 Volunteer Applications will be available for completion. Tour GRG and meet the rescues and some of our team members - and find out how YOU can help the rescues of GRG Ranch!

👉 For more information or to complete a volunteer application ahead of time, email us at [email protected] or visit our website at www.grgranch.org

09/13/2025

🐴❤️‍🩹 Our final introduction - Hilde, a 15 year old registered Appaloosa mare. Who arrived to her new home a bit chunky - and bred - on Aug 4th... After just 4 weeks, this is what was left of her on the day we assisted the Animal Humane Society in removing these mares from the human that caused this deterioration.

Hilde was Tilde's sister, and they'd been companions throughout their entire lives.

Hilde had been bred earlier this spring. Previously a brood mare, her breedings had always settled. But her pregnancy check showed no fetus. Why, you ask? Well, it may not have settled this year. But given the state of starvation and neglect ' it's very possible that she reabsorbed the fetus to try to save herself.

Like CrabApple, her chest is covered in scrapes from leaning across the sharp, broken cattle wire - attempting to reach what little vegetation was within reach.

With a BCS score of 3.5/9, Hilde is in the best shape of the rescued trio. Yet she's still in awful shape, a long road to recovery ahead of her. And don't let those mare ears fool you - she's nothing but sweetness, smart and already learning so much. This beautiful girl has such a wonderful life in store for her, and I'm excited to help her continue to learn and heal. 💙

GRG Ranch Horse Rescue & Sanctuary is a registered 501c-3 charity organization (88-1660703) All donations are TAX DEDUCTIBLE and go DIRECTLY to the horses of GRG Ranch.

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3380 233rd St E
Prior Lake, MN 55372

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09/12/2025

Don’t ignore a cloudy, watery, or squinting eye — it could be more serious than it looks.

09/12/2025

🐴❤️‍🩹 FIVE DOLLAR FRIDAY!! This week for $5 Friday, we bring you sweet Sugar Bar Dillon, testing out our new feed buckets, courtesy of the suggestion from Kelli and some crafty energy!

👉 Sugar is a 2004 registered AQHA mare that lives up to her name 🍬 and she's looking for her forever home!!

👉 Every single Friday, we ask you to skip your fancy drink or that unhealthy snack and send that money to a horse in need! 💵 Did you know that just a $4 donation buys our rescues a bale of hay??

GRG Ranch Horse Rescue & Sanctuary is a registered 501c-3 charity organization (88-1660703) All donations are TAX DEDUCTIBLE and go DIRECTLY to the horses of GRG Ranch.

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09/12/2025

🐴❤️‍🩹 Oh, CrabApple (aka No Gratitude), look at you.living up to the chestnut mare cliché - but let's be real, you have every right to be crabby...

The oldest of the mares at 22 - the excuse was given that these mares looked "like this because they were so old - that's just what old horses look like". 😡 No. It's not. Her teeth need to be done badly, and she needed to be fed. Her chest showed the scrapes from leaning over broken metal to try to reach some sustenance outside the tiny paddock of death. On her body were even more scrapes and scars - and the lice infestation... 🤮

At just over 800 pounds, she was 300 pounds underweight - a BCS of 1.5/9. And in spite of her nickname, she's been nothing but a lady with her vet work and handling. Though she has a long, long way to go following a careful refeed, her noticeable weight gain in just 10 days is clear evidence of the neglect she'd endured.

She is sweet and she is strong. And I believe without a doubt that this 🔥 fiery senior citizen will make a full recovery - physically, mentally, and emotionally - and go on to lead a pampered existence as a much loved pasture potato 🥔 for some very lucky human.

GRG Ranch Horse Rescue & Sanctuary is a registered 501c-3 charity organization (88-1660703) All donations are TAX DEDUCTIBLE and go DIRECTLY to the horses of GRG Ranch.

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Prior Lake, MN 55372

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09/11/2025

🐴❤️‍🩹 On August 30th, we assisted a humane agent with Animal Humane Society and were joined by deputies with the Aitkin County Sheriff's Department to remove 3 severely neglected, emaciated Appaloosa mares. Earlier that week, a 4th had passed away as a result of the extreme negligence.

This is a rare situation where we were able to track down the previous owner of these mares. A good person who was trying to downsize, she offered these mares for free to a good home. Told all the right things, by people who presented well, she sent them on their way - thinking they were off to a wonderful new start...

Meet CrabApple - 22 years old, Hilde - 15 years old, and Tilde - 16 years old. Lady Jet was the name of their fallen mate.

I'll introduce CrabApple and Hilde more in depth tomorrow. Today, I share the story of 16 year old Tilde. She was blind, glaucoma, and trying to survive in an environment littered with straps, scraps of tin, and bent and twisted wire cattle panel. She developed a fear of moving unguided as a result of the mine field she'd been living in. It had left her legs horribly sliced up, swollen, and stiff. We couldn't believe she was still alive, and feared she wouldn't make the 3 hour trailer ride to bring them directly to the clinic.

But she did, and it gave us hope. Weighing in at less than 900 pounds, she was at least 400 pounds underweight. With a BCS of 1/9. She was an absolute champ through her exam. Bravely handling all the things. And when she was moved to quarantine 3 days later, our hope grew stronger.

But her body had been so damaged, this incredible fighter finally grew tired. After just 5 days, she'd gone down. In spite of all our efforts, she wouldn't get up - and we knew it was time to let her go.

I am grateful for the 5 days of good care, good food, and so very much love. I'm also angry, because she deserved so much more.

We want to thank the incredible staff - our family - at Cleary Lake Veterinary Hospital Equine along with Debbie Lynn and her entire family. You all loved her so fiercely right along with us, helping us make sure her final days were filled with nothing but kindness and good. 💜

GRG Ranch Horse Rescue & Sanctuary is a registered 501c-3 charity organization (88-1660703) All donations are TAX DEDUCTIBLE and go DIRECTLY to the horses of GRG Ranch.

DONATE VIA:

PayPal : https://www.paypal.me/GRGRanch

Venmo : https://www.venmo.com/u/grgranchhorserescue

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Prior Lake, MN 55372

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