Beauty's leg injury

   Prancer's leg njury

They were acquired at a local auction and what makes it particularly satisfying is that they were purchased by outbidding kill buyers very interested in sending them to a brutal, inhumane death. They would have likely become a main course for someone in France or Belgium. Look at them. Can you imagine them enduring increasingly horrible suffering from the time they left the auction to their arrival at the slaughter house? Don't let your mind go too far to the ultimate conclusion because any thinking, feeling human being will be left distraught over it and that isn't what we're seeking to do. At Equine Justice, we know it is important that we adhere to the fine line between informing people of the truth but not repulsing them with it. Unfortunately, being ignorant of the truth never inspires action to stop it and prevent it.

Prancer and Beauty are currently in Fallbrook, California, in the northeast part of San Diego County. They are underweight, have sustained some cuts and are a little traumatized for now, but they're good, sound horses.

They will be nursed back to health and we will strive to ensure that they are allowed to live employed in their highest and best use. Perhaps they will end up with a good trainer, or a young girl's first horse who will live in her heart long after it is gone. Or, maybe in a rehabilitation program for prison inmates, or in therapeutic healing of an autistic child. In any event, they will serve out the rest of their lives on this planet in collaboration with humans. At Equine Justice, we strongly believe that horses have far more to give than we presently allow, or even know. They've been serving us for thousands of years but as beasts of burden. Their failure to be employed for higher pursuits is a result of our failing, our ignorance, not theirs. But we're learning, too.

Equine Justice operates on the basis that our task, our challenge, is not just to save horses, it's to make better this world in which we live. To make us better human beings. To do so, we must illuminate the very worst aspects of our savage natures in the way we deal with our responsibility to horses. We take no pleasure in looking at the photos and the videos and the articles and the USDA slaughter reports, quite the contrary. We agonize over it. But, it's the work we've taken on, it's the mission we've embraced. But, simply, if we create them, it we own them, if we use them for our benefit, we owe them a debt and only the most selfish human being fails to see that. We shouldn't repay that debt with making them endure a horrible death. Let them die as nature dictates, or properly euthanized. Certainly not in a cruel, agonizing death because it keeps the price of horsemeat low, or because it's easier.

If you can find generosity in your heart during these most difficult times to help us rehabilitate Prancer and Beauty, to develop programs for their best use, to inform and educate, to make this world a better place, please give. Donations of even $10, $20, or $25 will help us buy food and medicine! You can donate by clicking here: Yes, I want to donate to help Prancer and Beauty!

But if you don't have the funds but can volunteer your time, or if you have access to things we need, they will be used in the treatment of these beautiful horses.  They are temporarily being given shelter by the generous help of a local rancher with an extra corral. But, we will be moving them soon to a new location where they can recover. And with the increasing number of horses who can no longer be kept, there are so many more to save, and we'll make this world a better place one horse at a time, if that's what it takes. So, here's what we desperately need:

·        Corral panels, at least 6 for now, but anything you can spare, preferably 24 foot sections, or whatever you can provide.
·        Hay and oats. They will be eating extra in the beginning to put them back at a healthy weight.
·        Vet wraps and Standard Leg Wrap sheets
·        Wonder Dust for their wounds
·        Feed containers
·        Grooming tools
·        Water containers
·        Blankets and shelters, of any type.

If you live in the San Diego/Orange County area and want to help build the new rescue facilities, don't mind hard work, or live near Fallbrook and can help with feedings and grooming, we can use all the help we can get! You'll be participating in something wonderful and satisfying.

From all of us at Equine Justice, and on behalf of the horses, thank you.