One moment, a wild horse is running free. The next, everything can be gone, his family, his freedom and eventually his life.
Across the American West, wild horses can be removed from the land they have known all their lives. Some eventually find good homes. Others are not so lucky.
These wild horses pass through auctions and sales where their future becomes frighteningly uncertain and where they can enter a pipeline that ends across the border at a slaughterhouse.
Once that happens, there may be very little time left to save them.
That is why Network for Animals wants to act where we can make an immediate difference.
Exhausted and afraid, these horses are on their way to the slaughterhouse, with no idea about the horror that lies ahead. Source: Beth Walker
We know these horses can be saved.
In 2023, dozens of Alpine wild horses found themselves at the notorious kill- buyer-ridden Bowie Livestock Auction in Texas.
These were animals who had once lived wild and free. Now they were standing in auction pens. Many, especially the stallions, were at serious risk of being shipped to slaughter.
Rescuers stepped in.
All Seated in a Barn, working with another wild-horse organization, purchased 45 stallions and mares and moved them to safety. Horses that could have disappeared into the slaughter pipeline instead received transport, quarantine, veterinary attention, food and a chance to live.
Network for Animals has chosen to support All Seated in a Barn.
All Seated in a Barn is a U.S. equine rescue based in California that specializes in rescuing horses and donkeys from the slaughter pipeline.
Their teams go where the danger is – auctions, feedlots and pens where horses can be sold cheaply and moved towards slaughter.
Crowded into holding pens, these wild horses have lost the freedom they were born into, captured and left waiting for an uncertain future. Source: Elyse Gardner
When a horse can be saved, the work begins immediately. But it costs money to rescue animals, transport them to safety and provide urgent food, veterinary care and rehabilitation.
Without money available right when a horse needs rescuing, rescuers sometimes have to walk away.
We want to help fund the kind of urgent rescue work All Seated in a Barn is already carrying out.
This appeal has one simple purpose – to rescue horses from the slaughter pipeline and support their recovery afterwards.
Your gift today can help fund:
- Emergency intervention at auctions and sales
- Transport out of danger
- Veterinary examinations and treatment
- Food for thin and exhausted horses
- Farrier care
- Quarantine and safe accommodation
- Rehabilitation until a horse can move on to a safe home or sanctuary
At All Seated in a Barn and other rescue partners:
- $15 (£11) can help provide a rescued horse with food for a day
- $65 (£48) can help provide essential farrier care
- $300 (£220) can help cover food and care for a rescued horse for one month
Every gift gives us more power to say: “Take that horse off the list. We’re getting them out.”
Wild horses belong wild and free, not rounded up and placed on the path to slaughter. Donate today to help keep them running free. Source: Mikekolesnikov/Envato
America’s wild horses were born to run free.
For those we cannot keep on the range, we must do everything we can to make sure losing their freedom does not mean losing their lives too.
