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The Warriors of the Rainbow Horse Sanctuary, Inc.

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The Warriors of the Rainbow Horse Sanctuary, Inc.

Our mission is to save horses from cruelty, neglect and abandonment.
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08/08/2024

Thank you everybody I am overwhelmed by the outpouring of birthday wishes. I love you all!!!!!

07/08/2024

Ain't this the truth!?

05/19/2024

Have i got my Open Jumper here, or what?? Not even a week and a half old!!! Proudly presenting our newest Warrior: "Holly Siobhan" - Irish Connemara "Skyview's Triton" x Curly Mustang "Out of the Blue"

04/10/2024

Amen, sistah!

I read this post on a FB horse site this morning, an “anonymous person” complaining how hard it it to adopt from a rescue as well as how expensive and how intrusive to their personal life….

Frankly I am tired of this BS on behalf of legitimate rescues who do a good and necessary job…. many of them are my friends and colleagues.

First of all why do you have to hide behind “anonymous”? Nothing says “pot stirrer” more than anonymous.

Rescues who have had vetting, training and feeding… you don’t recoup the costs of most rescues via the adoption fee. I don’t know of any rescue who is adopting their horses for thousands of dollars… maybe someone can point them out to me? If the horse is well trained to do a job, is healthy , good foot health and is ready to go… why can’t the adoption fee be what he is worth in this horse market? Have you been horse shopping lately?

I also have never heard of a legitimate rescue who just up and wants to take their horse back from you, the adopter, if the horse is well cared for. Personally I have only taken horses back that the adopter couldn’t keep (due to finances or health or death) I don’t want the horse back unless you have turned some corner that you can’t come back from. Heck… I even have in our adoption contract that you can sell the horse … say like you have developed him into a superstar who can jump the moon or he’s become an FEI horse .. but I do want to know where he is going and that future owners know he has a place to come back to.

I have placed several horses that we spent literally thousands of dollars on at a very minimal adoption fee because it was a stellar home and I knew every need would be met. I am in this for the horse.. not the adoption fee…. The adoption fee will never pay us back for the hours, the sweat or the heartache.
We got in this to help horses out of bad situations and get them into better circumstances.

Why do we all have background checks and adoption contracts? To keep the horse from falling through the cracks again….to make sure we aren’t adopting to people with criminal pasts or people who have AC complaints (hoarding, neglect, abuse)… because those people often try to adopt believe it or not. YES, they do. Site checks? Yes.. to make sure it is safe.

If you don’t want to go through a vetting process… go and rescue a horse yourself … maybe you can fix him , maybe you can’t … send him for training somewhere @1000 a month for a couple of months … maybe he will be sound… maybe he won’t…. Maybe he will come along at the trainer and be quite rideable in 60 days but maybe it will be 90-120. Nothing is for sure until you get there. A legitimate rescue has likely done this work and knows the horse and what it can or can’t do… and the type of rider it needs. But seriously … do it yourself if you can take all the risks and come out with exactly what you want…. It just takes time, effort, money and RISK.

Someone else chimed in on this conversation and said that rescues send their horses to the kill buyer… I want to know who that is? Who is doing that? Their names should be known to the rest of us.

Lots of people chimed in and said rescues just beg for money and don’t take care of what they have.
Someone else said she won’t adopt , donate or surrender to rescues anymore… ?? What?

I am just speaking up on behalf of all of us who are out there legitimately working …. Keep your head up.. walk it off..it takes all kinds to jab anonymously.

02/23/2024

Only in Wisconsin, right?

Remember to check before starting your car as heat can attract animals!

02/20/2024

Newly arrived from the kill pen, newly christened "Strawberry Blossom", a strapping big Belgian mare who had only a tag number: "Suitable for human consumption ". She has a a terrible case of shipping fever, and a badly swollen hind leg, but at least she's not skin and bones.She flinched when I first went to pet her. As tough and as experienced a horsewoman as I am, that still made my eyes fill with tears.

02/16/2024

Please, gang, if you wanna donate money do so ONLY through my website www.warriorsoftherainbowhorsesanctuary.com. Facebook has stolen the last several donations which people had set up for me ( birthday donations, etc).First off, they told mr that they only pay out money quarterly (may be hoping I'd forget it?) then, when I went to remind them about the money I haven't gotten, there's an endless series of steps I have to take which ends up with me always getting an error saying "something happened try again later." There is no way to contact a human being that I can discover, only robotic help, and "frequently asked questions". I am removing my Donate button from my page and please do NOT donate through Facebook for me ever again. You're only lining the big boys"pockets, at the expense of small nonprofits. I mean, seriously, who steals from a nonprofit? Apparently, Meta does!

Warriors of the Rainbow is a non-profit Horse Sanctuary in Reeds, Missouri. Rescuing horses in need. You can adopt, volunteer or give!

02/15/2024

Ok gang I did it. she may not be another Lttle Beth, but her eyes said "I don't wanna die." and the response was 100%: do it! (Only one of you responded lol.)

01/12/2024

The first day of Cloudline Hounds 50th anniversary celebration we hunted an exotic animal park: we got to see zebra and wildebeests and African antelope up close and personal. I got to hunt the own horse of the son of the Master, "Sentinel". What an honor! Later I found out it was this horse's first fox hunt ever!

10/24/2023

Kentucky Equine Research

10/24/2023

More. Stupid Facebook only lets you post one graphic at a time now, apparently

10/24/2023

Sad farewell to my Swiss and French volunteers, Joelle and Juliette. We will miss them! We had fun. Went to a special reception for horse rescues put on by Anheuser Busch, got to see the Clydesdales up close and personal! Went to Churchill Downs in Louisville KY and watched the racehorses gallop. Went to Kentucky Equnie Research and learned a lot about current hindgut research, got to watch TBs on the treadmill!

10/17/2023

“Fuente Don Arturo AnniverXario , anyone? “ Smarty asks

09/22/2023

Done!!❤️❤️❤️

Address

9793 County Road 30
Reeds, MO
64859

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 4pm
Tuesday	9am - 4pm
Wednesday	9am - 4pm
Thursday	9am - 4pm
Friday	9am - 7pm
Saturday	9am - 7pm
Sunday	10am - 6pm

Telephone

+14172461143

Website

http://www.warriorsoftherainbowhorsesanctuary.com/

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Churchill Downs morning work

On the treadmill!

Kentucky Equine Research

Here is my brand new S&S Trailer

These are the children getting free horse rides.

Here are two short videos of the Parade. We were also on KSN TV!!!

Randy Robbins canters Cattle Baron

So proud of and grateful for Randy and Joe! They have the Crossfence almost finished and I really showed up out of the blue for the weekend at least I hope she stays longer will really get some riding done now! Here is Randy on Cattle Baron, the 16.2 hh American saddlebred gelding that we rescued from another organization in MN when they were over full and the adopter they had found for him had to return him. Also Randy on Sierra, our champagne/colored Missouri Foxtrotter mare - according to equine.com, there’s not another champagne Missouri Foxtrotter for 500 miles

And finally the third video, showing how non-inflamed tissue (on the horse's shoulder) reacts differently to the Magnawave than that which is sore.

Here is the second video, the one showing the response of inflamed (sore) tissue to Magnawave treatment.

Easy Way to Diagnose Sore Back in Horses

Due to popular demand (and despite the record heat, yesterday) I produced these short videos with the help of my extremely patient and extremely competent volunteer, Cierra Relph, (My goodness, I had no idea how testy I can sound! I shall have to work on that! She is a GEM to put up with me!!!) The first video demonstrates an easy way to diagnose a sore back in a horse. Later it occurred to me I should demonstrate this same technique on a non-sore horse, so I had Cierra go over and take videos with her phone (my battery having died) on a similarly built, but sound-backed horse, my gelding Cloudline; she promises she is going to post those videos later under the "Community" section of this Page) The next videos demonstrate what to DO about back soreness -- treat it with MagnaWave pulsed electromagnetic field therapy! These machines, invented by NASA to cure space sickness in our astronauts (which resulted when they first went outside of the magnetic field of the earth) have proven to heal a magnitude of complaints, and are great at preventing problems at well. (All but one of the last seven Kentucky Derby winners were treated daily with them, for example.) The machines are quite pricey, but I will be offering individual sessions of this revolutionary and effective treatment at a reasonable price to the general public soon - this situation has convinced me of the necessity of that ! (Out of every bad situation always comes some good., I always maintain.) I have to complete my on-line certification course first. Meanwhile, I will also continue to post videos weekly of this individual horse (conveniently branded with an H so you can tell it is the same horse each time) so that you can follow her progress and judge for yourself how well MagnaWave works. Back soreness is a terribly often overlooked reason (yet perfectly VALID reason, in my humble opinion) for misbehavior in horses. If you have ever had YOUR back go out, you know how painful it is -- no

Bennett Canters at Free Longe

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WHAT WE DO

These days, more horses than ever are homeless, unappreciated, abused, underfed. What can we do about it? WHAT WE DO:

We are saving branded BLM mustangs from the kill pens. We have hauled over five hours one-way to save a single mustang.

We are taking in horses which are wandering loose on the highways (most counties in the Four States areas have no formal rescue set-ups for livestock).

We are accepting horses from private owners whose finances have taken a downturn and who need to get horses placed before they turn to skin-and-bones.

WHAT WE DO: Most importantly we are rehabilitating ALL these horses and then recruiting new people to the soul-satisfying world of horse ownership, providing them with the lessons and 24/7 support they need to become successful horse owners /horse riders in their own right. (Most of them are happy to volunteer with the day-to-day running of the Sanctuary, as recompense). All of you who know me, know the depth of horse expertise I possess, and what a huge gift this really is – both to these individual new owners, and to the world of horsedom at large.

This usually involves teaching a horse major ground manners – to be led through a gate without rushing. To be led anywhere on a slack line, without crowding or preceding the handler. To load willingly into a trailer by simply being pointed at it, leadrope tossed up over neck as horse precedes handler in. To stand tied without pawing, whinnying, or moving about. To yield feet to be picked or trimmed without resistance. To be sprayed with fly spray without moving. To join up, so the horse can be caught out of a large pasture with no chasing, and can easily be taught any new thing, perceiving the horse handler as the “herd boss”, as he now does.

This also almost always involves teaching a horse to be a better mount. To stand still to be mounted! To stay standing still until cued to move off! To yield to the bit. To become supple enough to manage small circles, prompt departures from gait to gait, and very importantly, to stop promptly when cued with that all-important word “whoa”!

We strive to discover a horse’s specialty skill. That is, the thing(s) he does well, which he enjoys doing. We focus our training towards that so he can become not only an adequate, but a superlative mount. Therefore, we train some horses to drive, to be put-to a fancy carriage. We train some horses to surmount obstacles, to become competitive in the EXCA challenge races. We train some horses to jump quietly and fearlessly and to stand perfectly still after long invigorating gallops, to be useful foxhunters. We train some horses to be absolutely 100% quiet under all circumstances so they are safe children’s mounts. The fact that the average time it takes to place a horse is under four weeks, once we have decided he is ready to be advertised, is testimony to our training skills.

WHAT WE DO: Every day, we get up and feed and water and doctor and groom and love on and fool with and train and enjoy our horses, before we go off to the job that helps pay for all this. Every evening, again, we go down to the barn and again we feed and water and doctor and groom and love on and fool with and school and enjoy our horses. Our rescue horses are treated not one whit differently than our own personal ones are.

And then inbetween, we fix fence and mow pasture and chop tree limbs and fix more fence and clean tack and muck stalls and answer emails and fix more fence and teach riding lessons and school other horses and build and repair jumps and obstacles and spray for weeds and scrub water tanks and fix more fence and send out letters like these.

So please, all of you, any of you, feel free to come by and visit, any time. We are located at 9793 County Road 30, Reeds MO 64859: carrots, apples, sugar cubes, or peppermints are the only admission fees.

I am sending you my love and my gratitude. May God bless you and yours, always, in every way. . .

Candy Haasch

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On the treadmill!

Randy Robbins canters Cattle Baron

Easy Way to Diagnose Sore Back in Horses

Bennett Canters at Free Longe

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