Kalahari Heart Animal Welfare

15/01/2025

Our monthly newsletter is on the go and will be released at the end of the month.We still need the public to advertise R150 an for the month and this newsletter gets shared all over our media platforms.
This is also for a good cause .... As we at Kalahari Heart are getting boxes of tack and meds( please more sponsers are still needed)to send to Lesotho at the end of January

If you have an amazing story or even something which is really playing on your heart send us a write up.
We would love to post your story in the newsletter..
Febuary is around the corner so love is in the air... Send us some fotos and stories of true love and connections with your horse.

Much love
The KH family

11/01/2025

It has been raining, raining and raining some more.
The girls took the dogs to play and they had a ball.

11/01/2025

Thankyou dear Yvonne for donating Desperado's oil to my babies.
They are looking really well.
Thankyou sweet Abi for all your help with the animals.
So happy they have you and your family to love them like we do and for all the help.
Thankyou Bertus & Linda that our animals are welcomed with so much love as well.
Thankyou Mary Stanford for always being there for me ❤️

Much love

09/01/2025

‼️ *SPECIAL FOR JANUARY*‼️
*Any sales of the Hackmores in January KEEP IT COUNTRY Leatherworx will donate 20% of it, to Kalahari Heart*

The ULTIMATE HACKAMORE
manufactured by "KEEP IT COUNTRY" leatherworx.

Offering a practical 4mm thick and 19cm long steel shank design in 3 different powder coated colours.

Light pink
Teal
Hammered Black

We use top quality, locally sourced full grain leather which we then infuse on the flesh side and edges with our unique natural oils and beeswax to provide a water repellent protective coating.

All stitching is done meticulously by hand to provide superior strength and quality.
This also allows us to naturally contour the soft inside layer of the noseband so that it let's your horses face correctly and still have enough "rigity" to be effective

Noseband and curbstraps also come in different colour options.

Tan
Dark chocolate brown
Black

Sizes:

Cob
Full
Fits most horses.
(Custom sizes can be accommodated)

A side-pull bitless option is also available.

*ANOTHER SPECIAL*
The first 20 paid-up orders qualify for a 20% discount on the retail price of R1575 and pay only R1260*

Pudo or courier guy fees for buyers account

Contact Jolien 081 795 7801 to process your orders.

07/01/2025

Hey everyone so
As u know Kalahari Heart Animal Welfare
Is sponsering a young girl this year we need to find a hat like this and a bit that someone is willing to donate.
If u have one please contact:
Linda- 073 609 2543
Mary- 0662460289 or Magda -081 522 1751

Thankyou
Kalahari Heart NPO
FNB
Gold Businesses acc
63031335276
Swift code FIRNZAJJ
Branch code 210835

05/01/2025

31/12/2024

Thankyou for all the support and love we received in 2024

31/12/2024

I watch as everyone comes and goes.
The noise is more than usual , a door opens and closes.

Different smells, new people, children that touch me.
If i move more into the corner maybe they won't see me.

Its dark outside and my tummy hurts, so many sweets and treats.
I hear a different noise, people are swaying and laughing, i feel how my heat beats.

I get pushed outside because i could not control my bladder.
Daddy has a bottle in his hand and he is shouting at me, hes getting madder.

Suddenly theres a loud bang, bright lights and my ears hurt more than they ever have before.
Im so scared, i try hide, i run and run till my paws are sore.

I look around and see a place i think i can crawl under.
I just need to cross this hard hard surface and get away from this thunder.

Nearly there, what are these bright lights?
This hurts, it really hurts.
Sorry mommy, no more good nights.

Happy New Year everyone
Give a thought to all the animals and all the rescue organisations who will not be celebrating tonight.

Linda

30/12/2024

Saying goodbye to Deben was very hard, we had so many memories there, many good ones and unfortunately quite a few bad ones.

One thing i learned is that to many people are not nice. I like to see the best in everyone, give to many chances and want to believe everyone is inherently good.
This is not true, people have very mean sides and often when someone comes with hands outstretched, professing to love animals, offering to help, they actually have ulterior motives.

I had to open my eyes to the reality of rescue politics, jealousy and people lying about the most ridiculous things to make themselves look good. Over the years I have learned to just keep quiet and carry on, actions speak louder than words.

Since we started KH I got threatened with r**e, having our house burned down and Crystal and I were held at the police station many hours being told to pay for a horse or all our animals could be taken away... because they could.

To often we got surrounded by horse or donkey owners screaming at us about taking their animals and we had to explain we were there to help, sometimes getting a helper to come help us out with the language barrier or begging the police to assist us.

Sometimes we question why things happen and the day the Kalahari Heart board got taken down i broke down in tears, I could not imagine what was going to happen to all the cart donkeys and the animals who came to us for care.
I got calls of how kids were sworn at by people who have no knowledge of caring for these amazing animals or working with the rural community.
People put jacks and stallions together with mares and jennies in season, a nursing foal in the midst of them all, no fencing between them, all just thrown together, but this was accepted, the community just wanted them off the streets.

I got told its not my problem, i left but it took me years to know these donkeys,
I knew many from birth, to giving birth themselves , even helping 1 or 2 foal.
I was there when a newborn got it’s jaw broken by a jack and holding the owner as he cried.
We treated wounds, stab wounds , burn wounds and battle scars. I knew who owners were and their families.
I cared about the jenny who got hit by a taxi and her foal needed a home,
I cared about the 3 month old jack that was bought and when he got bigger and became a nuisance, he got given away.
I care about the parvo puppies that will be left to die because nobody is going to take them to the vet and pay vet bills, talk is cheap until it comes to a vet bill that keeps climbing.

I love where i am now and i love that I don’t have people at my gate at midnight, I don’t have to walk to the other end of town to remove a tin off a hoof and i am happy that i don’t have to hear stories that i am stealing a horse even though i have an IB number and the police captain escorted us home in the dark.

I do not for 1 minute regret that i left that town but i am sad that i had to say goodbye to a few good friends and to some amazing vets and i am heartbroken that the donkeys are now left in the hands of immoral people who know nothing about these precious animals.

We still have a vet bill that we are responsible for and the promises to pay are of cause just that, promises, The stories told about us are laughable and i take it coming from the people who tried to take Kalahari Heart ( Seriously anyone who thinks rescue is a money making venture, wake up) it makes you poor in pocket but if you want riches in other ways like your heart and soul then yes i can see why they wanted KH.

I made the most amazing friends in that little dirt road town and i walked barefoot many miles over the years i was there but what i take with me is the memory of all the animals that left hoofprints in the yard and i cherish the hours spent chatting to those close to my heart.
I miss having my son and daughter in law close by and the most beautiful sounds of donkeys braying.

Now we start a new journey, 2025 will bring new challenges and my other babies are almost home, I am close to my daughter and her little family and my husband and i spend more time together.
Sometimes we need to realise that things definately do need to change, not just for our health but for our souls as well.

I am happy and i am blessed.
I pray for all the animals like those in Deben, left to graze on the side of the road, left without food, the animals who get neglected and abused.
I hope 1 day that animal laws will not just be words on paper that actually dont mean much but rules and regulations that make South Africa a place where animals can be safe.

Have a blessed and safe New Year everyone.

30/12/2024

Morning everyone, I received very bad footage of horses that were involved in an accident near Olifantshoek. 3 people are in hospital.
We want to do something about this as it has gotten out of hand.

Please send any videos, photos ( include location and date please) where animals are roaming free near or on the roads.
We need to get more attention on this.
You can send to us and we are going to try our best to get this out there.
We know that different orgs have been fighting this fight but we are going to try from our side from a few points of view.

The rescue, the rurul and the motorist.
Thankyou

Linda :073 6092543
Mary : 066 246 0289
Crystal : 081 606 9151

30/12/2024

Good morning, we really need help on the KH vet account.
Even though we helped Deben, Deben did not help us and this account now falls on us to settle.
Dr Gerhard came out

*VET ACC*
Mokala Animal Clinic
Capitec Bank
Business account
1051018030
Ref: Kalahari heart or 14871

28/12/2024

Hi everyone.
Our January outreach is for the mountain equine in Lesotho and we would love some help.

We have a guy there who is trying his best to educate and teach the rural community on proper horse care... But he cannot do it alone.
He is in desperate need of medicines and tack

We have quite a bit of tack we are sorting out and making up bridles from the pieces we have but definitely need bits.
Mary has some fulvic poultice and cbd she is also sending.
Other wound care would be appreciated.
We would like to send flysprays to them. But its going to be far cheaper to send something like cyperdip which is readily available here.
We are looking for donations for meds for wound care and also alot more tack.
Please contact us if u can contribute in any way
As u can see in the fotos wound care and general health is our main focus here

Much love
The KH family

Linda :073 6092543
Mary : 066 246 0289
Crystal : 081 606 9151

Kalahari Heart NPO
FNB
Gold Businesses acc
63031335276
Swift code FIRNZAJJ
Branch code 210835

28/12/2024

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24/12/2024

From the our family to yours we wish you all a blessed Christmas holidays.
Stay safe.

19/12/2024

Today is the last day to get ur stories in for the Kalahari Heart Animal Welfare monthly newsletter . please lets get going ..
Also last day to place ur adds which cost r150 per month.
This newspaper is shared via all plarforms of social media..
We are looking for amazing stories
Christmas fotos...
Succefully shocking wound treatmemts
Survival of horses that should not be alive....
Watsapp me at 073 609 2543 or Mary at 0662460289.