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 Charlie is our newest horse rescue. As we understand she is about 16 years old, and is an arab/quarter horse cross. She came to us on December 30th, 2011 from Mesa, Colorado underweight and her hooves were overgrown and very much in chronic founder. The plan is to get some weight on her, and begin the process of healing her hooves. So far she is doing great! She's eating well and we are confident she will make a full recovery! Her original name coming to us was Snoopy, but we decided to change it to something more befitting her. One day out of the blue we just started calling her Charlie and it seemed to fit.
We started the first phase of her set-up trim the first week we acquired her. Given how long they were we decided it was best to trim in phases. We finished her set-up trim the afternoon of January 14th, 2011. Before and after pictures are soon to come! We are very pleased with the result and are looking forward to her seeing her improve!
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 Rosie is our first official rescue; she is a 13 year old white mule molly. She came to us through a local veterinarian who saw her as a patient, diagnosed founder from a distance (he couldn't get near her, she didn't want anything to do with him or the owner), and referred her to us because the owner wanted to euthanize her to "not deal with it."
We have had her since August 2008; she has made definite progress both physically and mentally, having both founder and abuse issues to overcome. She is still untrusting and flinchy whenever we walk near her, expecting to be slapped or hit with a rope, but has made a lot of progress since we've had her.
She now enjoys attention instead of running away, and willingly puts her nose in the halter when we go to her. We are still working on her remaining trust issues. Her health has progressed also, but not as quickly as we'd hoped. She is much more comfortable since being on an all grass hay diet and getting her feet into better shape, but they still have a bit of recovery time ahead to be rid of the flared slipper shape from foundering.
She has had minimal training in the past and when we obtained her she knew how to go forward, but that is it. We assume she was either used as a pack mule or just for mountain trail riding. She has learned to back up since we have had her, and we are still working on teaching her to give to us both while leading and riding. It's a difficult concept for her to learn, since it involves a lot of trust in the handler.
We appreciate any donations made to help us pay for her daily maintenance and care until we can adopt her out. She needs straight grass hay, with no legumes, or alfalfa, as well as daily supplementation which contains soaked beet pulp (free of added sugars and additives, organic is preferable); flax seed and rice bran, annual veterinary check-ups and vaccinations. Please donate today!
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