Natalie's Blind Saves Sanctuary & Rescue

09/07/2025

Now if youd like to donate, thats different and always helpful as we run solely off of donations to provide feed,adequate care and living conditions for these magnificent animals. Donations can be made on our website nataliesblindsavessanctuaryandrescue.org
EIN # 92-1117248

First randon drawing will be announced in the comments on Sunday the 13th and mailed out the following Monday.

Thank you for your support and good luck! 🐎 🐴

28/06/2025

Additional medicine was $188.82 for 3 horses

Total annual vet expense was $2,198.53!
Wow! That was a lot less then our estimates!

That said, we have money left over towards the upcoming surgeries in the fall we just learned about! Estimates will be in next week along with the pregnancy results for Honey.

Fully blind Oliver will need all of his incisors (front teeth) removed due to the shifting and has caused severe pain. This will require a mash diet and the expense will be high for him as he will no longer be able to eat hay. We're looking at around 9lbs of a complete type forage grain twice a day to sustain his quality of life. Expecting the vet bill to be over $1000

Fully blind Bentley needs his other eye removed as it's looking really bad due to shrinkage and has become painful. Expecting the bill to be around $800

Fully blind Destiny had a molar split in half and doctor can only attempt to remove it in the office. If for some reason the roots are too deep, she will need a transfer to a specialist in lower Michigan! I can only imagine that expense 😯

As you know the normal expenses are $700 a month for hay and $155 a week for grain. We dont give grain on hot days but it helps stretch the needed use for cold days. Hay is given 24/7.
Once estimates are included, I will be able to provide accurate information on what we have towards the surgeries. 🙏

We are 100 percent donation and volunteer based. Donations can be made on our website at https://www.nataliesblindsavessanctuaryandrescue.org

23/06/2025

Wow! Thank you everyone for your generosity and support! We are down to needing just $682.20 from our total $4,485.07 within 3 days before the upcoming vet expense!

Edit 6/23 donation $67 , $615.20 😍
Edit 6/23 donation $250 and a paypal fee $5.47 🙏
6/24 donation $14
New Total needed: $356.67 😲
Almost there folks, thank you SO much for helping us help them!

Update 6/25, 3 horses, serenity, olivia and chance need dormgel before their dentals which is an additional $188.82 so we are now in need of a total of $545.49 🙏

https://www.paypal.me/nataliesblindsavesr

Help us, help them 🙏 😍

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23/06/2025

We're so very excited to announce this!!

Sighted Misty has been chosen for a foster to adopt home!

Misty came to us in 2021 before we became a non profit. She was said to be unhandled in a pasture for 8 years. It took us hours to get she and her "buddy" loaded. They were not buddies. The other horse was adopted by a local of the Upper Peninsula but Misty was less fortunate and now 4 years later and intense training, she is no longer that feral horse we once knew but a follow me around puppy dog willing to learn. She was overlooked due to being mareish towards other horses she doesn't like but we've never changed her entire scenery so with fingers crossed and many prayers, we hope this amazing home works out for her. She will get to be ridden and loved on and have green pastures with a lifelong buddy and human bestie, just as she so deserves ❤️

20/06/2025

She wasnt born in clean barns or under soft lights.

She came up with blistered hands and busted nights.
Steel in the fire, sweat in her eyes,

Learning to listen when a broken horse cries.

Her father taught her with grunt and glare,
“Don’t just fix the hoof, fix what’s there.
There’s pain in the limp, there’s fear in the fight,
But you show ‘em your calm, and you hold ‘em right.”

She watched his back bend, his knuckles bleed,
As he worked for more than money or need.
He did it for the horse that couldn’t speak,
For the ones left scared, forgotten, blind or weak.

Now she carries the nippers, the rasp and makes change..
But it’s not just her, it’s more than a name.
Shes taught a crew of calloused hands and open doors,
Serving souls that the world ignores.

Rescue horses with haunted eyes,
People who ask “Can I try?”
We teach, we patch, we heal,
And never forget what’s raw and real.

So here’s the truth, no fancy spin:
We’re here to help, from deep within.
If your horse needs care, and funds run thin,
Don’t look away, just come on in.

We do farrier work by donation, no pride, no game.
Just good hands, and a heart for change.

🙏 🐎 🙏
$40 per horse for trims every 6 weeks and yes we can come to you.

We have our first client added today. ❤️

18/06/2025

Half blind Chance is said to be a Morgan cross gelding, up for foster to adopt or foster program. He is said to be 5 years old and still has his baby wolf teeth which will hopefully be removed on the 26th. He will come with all vaccinations, physical,coggins and dental done. Trim is happening tonight on his feeters.

He is very skiddish but very willing to learn when he is one on one. He has almost completed his weight management and will receive vet clearance soon as well!

We want to see if anyone has interest for him, hes a sweetheart once he trusts you.
Hes scared of geldings but does fine with them. Good with mares.
Adoption fee will be determined after his vet and dental expenses but lifelong contract remains.
Free educational course for blind caretaking as well ❤️

**he is not broke to ride, he was feral at arrival and will be a project. Corral panels or cattle panels are a must for his living situation as hes too wild.

18/06/2025

Update !

Our foster to adopt program has been such a success!

Sighted Karma came from a rescue that originally rescued she and blind Bentley from a kill pen in lower Michigan. She was with us for quite some time and often overlooked as she had dropped fetlocks or weak suspensory ligaments and no one wanted the responsibility until we placed her with a family in our first ever foster to adopt program!!
They loved her so much, they adopted her!

Now we want to spread the kindness in our foster to adopt program...

I will post photos later but we are offering up Partially blind Diesel, partially blind baby chance and possibly Natalies personal horse fully blind Clyde Cottontail who would come with his friend Misty. All except chance are fully broke to ride by intermediate and confident riders. Details will be posted with photos. Free educational class for the blind will be provided as well as lifelong contracts regardless of if adopting or just fostering.

Please comment if you are interested. We also would love to see pasture pet homes as well.

08/06/2025

Welcome

08/06/2025

Hi. I'm Little Bit aka Lucky. I’m blind, vertically challenged (I prefer “fun-size”), and living my absolute best life in what the humans call a "sanctuary." I call it “Heaven with snacks.”

Let me paint you a picture. Except I can’t see, so YOU do the painting. Imagine a horse. Now make it smaller. Smaller. Nope, smaller than that. Okay, now imagine he walks like a Roomba because he keeps bumping into everything and correcting course. That’s me.

Before I came here, life was... not cute. I was in a place where I had untreated eye issues. They said I bumped into a metal bolt on a hay feeder and it went through my eye (6 months ago!) , I can tell you, the previous owner before my savior thought “vet care” was a nice idea from fairy tales. So yeah, not exactly Spa Day.

But then something magical happened. Some squishy human with too many feelings and a car full of snacks showed up. She had a son with no eyes and she said I was “special.” I immediately headbutted her in the thigh because I thought she was a fence post. We’ve been best friends ever since. She had me brought to this slice of heaven called Natalie's Blind Saves Sanctuary & Rescue and told me that id have the best life just the way I am there. Thank you for saving me angel, I love you.

Upon arrival at sanctuary, I was immediately taken into surgery along with 4 other horses having eye removals! I was told both of my eyes came out. I couldn't see but I could hear and all other senses kicked in. Healing time was a struggle and the volunteers said it was like a murder scene when I tore my bandage off not once, not twice, but 6 times! They helped me round the clock along with 4 other horses and now we're all healed, what a loving team of hoomans here!

I’ve got a fully blind quarter horse roommate who thinks he's a giraffe with his head tilt and humans who trim my hooves, kiss my nose (don’t sneak up on me, Pat), and tell me I’m handsome at least 3 times a day. I am handsome. I just can’t verify it myself.

Here’s what I want you to know: Animals like me,broken, blind, older, “weird-shaped”, we still matter. We still love snacks. We still deserve kindness, safety, and a soft place to land.

If you laughed, cried, or spilled coffee on yourself reading this, do me a favor: share my story. Tell someone. Or better yet, follow us, donate, volunteer, or just drop off a snack (apple slices preferred, carrots acceptable, celery is an act of violence).

Love,
Little Bit, CEO of Bumping Into Stuff and Looking Adorable

https://www.paypal.me/nataliesblindsavesr