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NorCal Equine Rescue "NER" is a
501(c)(3) nonprofit charitable organization, tax ID #
20-1156396.
We are dedicated to preventing cruelty to equines of all kinds: horses, ponies,
mules and donkeys. NER was founded in 2003 on the belief that if everyone
does what he or she can, then much will be accomplished.
While we can not take all the
horses that we get requests for, we accommodate all that our
resources allow. We rely entirely on private donations and
must maintain a balance between adoptable healthy horses and horses
that are non-rideable or sick. We occasionally place horses
into a foster home type environment, but only if it is in the best
interest of the equine. Most of our horses are at our ranch in
Oroville, CA, with 24 hour monitoring by our trainers. They
have 24 hour a day care of their needs. Visitors are welcome
daily Sunday through Thursday by appointment.
We strive to save as many
equines from abuse, neglect, slaughter and abandonment as possible.
Our goal is to heal and gentle these previously damaged equines and
adopt them into loving homes. Please open your heart to an equine
that is waiting for a home. We step out in faith everyday that the
funds will come in so we can continue to give these beautiful
animals a chance at life.
Each equine that is lucky enough to
be rescued by our
organization will receive tender loving
care
from our staff. We do our best to make each and every rescued equine feel loved,
treasured, respected for who they are and then given a second chance of
happiness. Horses can't choose the people in their lives, for them it is
all chance. Equines that are saved by us can rest assured that their troubles
are truly over. We do all in our power to serve our equines and give them
the life they deserve to live. With your support we will be able to give a new
life to an equine that is out there suffering right now. Please don't
wait, save a life today!
NorCal Equine Rescue is deeply involved in saving horses that are
standing in feedlots waiting to be slaughtered. In 2007 we pulled
over 180 horses off a feedlot that would have been slaughtered if we
had not saved them. We can't do this alone, we need your help
to save them or they will be killed. You can be a part of saving
them from being slaughtered and giving them the life they deserve.
Every dollar helps and if it was not for people like you, doing what
they could to help we would not have been able to save over 180
slaughter bound horses in 2007.
We post horses that are in feedlots and raise
the
funds needed to save them, before the next semi truck and trailer come
to pick them up and take them to a slaughterhouse in Mexico or Canada.
When the funds are raised and the horses are saved, the
horses are then transported to horse rescues, so they can be adopted
into loving homes. NorCal Equine Rescue doesn't have a large enough facility or
funds to care for the slaughter bound horses we save. We transfer
many of the horses to other rescues or sanctuaries where they'll be adopted into
loving homes
or live out their lives happily.
When horses are only days away from being killed at
slaughterhouses, we are notified by kind hearted feedlot workers about
horses that they believe would best benefit from being rescued. We are given pictures and the
slaughter prices we must pay to save the horses. Then the fund-raising
begins, we send out an e-news about the horses and start praying the
funds will be raised. It takes about $4000.00 to $12,000.00 to rescue a
group of slaughter bound horses. The funds must be raised in only a few
days, sometimes hours.
"A man who is right with God cares for his animal, but the sinful man is hard
and has no pity."
Proverbs 12:10 |
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All of the above equines have been saved by
us and have been adopted. Click Here is see
their stories.
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| Our History: |
NorCal Equine Rescue
was founded by Jason & Tawnee Preisner in 2003.
Click
Here
to learn more about our founders.
2003: Tawnee is a big horse lover and has had
horses all of her life, but there was one time after Jason & Tawnee
were married that she did not have a horse. This was hard on Tawnee
and she just had to have a horse of her own again! June 24,
2003 Tawnee headed out to an auction to get a horse of her own.
She got a 4 year old Quarter Horse named Skip for only $321.75.
Skip was pretty
 much
untouched and unsure of people. Tawnee's mom had trained many
horses when Tawnee was growing up and by this time Tawnee had
trained several horses on her own. She spent hours with this horse
and Skip responded to her, within 7 day Tawnee and Skip were on
trail rides together. Now she had a horse of her own
again! It was not long, however, when Tawnee started
thinking about all the other horses being sent through the auctions,
were those horses really being sent to slaughter she wondered. What
was going to happen to them? After a tough struggle in her heart,
she decided to sell her lovely horse Skip, and use the money go back
to the auction and save as many horses as she could. She sold Skip
to a nice couple for $1,700.00 3 months after she had saved her from
the auction. With tears she said good bye to her wonderful horse
that she had bonded to so closely over the last few months. Her mind
was made up, she was going back there and saving more of those
horses from people who would look at horses with greed in their
eyes. She wondered, why do those people have so much greed in their
eyes when they looked at the horses? And why were they so rough with
the horses? Were they buying them to be killed at a slaughterhouse?
In the years to come Tawnee & Jason would have all their questions
answered through experience.
With the money from Skip they were able to save 4 more horses that year!
In the small ranching town they lived in people started calling
Tawnee a "Horse Trader." That was not why Tawnee or Jason was
saving these horses. Where they making money? No.
Where they saving the horses from greedy people who only wanted the
highest possible dollar, even if it meant death to the horses?
Yes!
2004: With 6 horses saved from the auction in 2003 all in homes now, Jason and Tawnee decided to start a rescue for
all equines: horses, ponies, mules and donkeys. They chose to call it "NorCal Equine Rescue."
(NorCal is
short
for Northern California.)
NorCal Equine Rescue would be a rescue that would strive to save as many equines from slaughter, abuse,
neglect, PMU, abandonment, or worse and would heal and gentle the
previously damaged equines and then find suitable homes for them that
would provide love and care forever. Tawnee would do this full time and
Jason would work full time in his job to pay for it all. All that
year Jason worked heard to pay for all the rescue's bills and Tawnee
worked heard saving horses, ponies, & donkeys and adopting them into
loving homes.
In that year NorCal Equine Rescue was able to save 35 equines
from an unknown future. It was a good year, they planned on save more
equines the next year. That would mean that Jason would have to work
longer hours, but if lives could be saved, why not?
2005: Jason & Tawnee had big plans for the rescue this year. They
were working with the IRS to make their rescue into
a 501(c)(3) nonprofit
charitable organization. Jason & Tawnee
were also expecting a baby of their own on July 3rd! Being pregnant
didn't slow Tawnee down much, she had no morning sickness and felt
great. She even hiked 9 miles with Jason at 6 months pregnant
through deep snow to find out what had happen to a horse that
someone had left in a high mountain pasture over the winter. Sadly
they were to late to save that horse.
Good new from the IRS came in April, as of March 16th, 2005 the rescue is
now a 501(c)(3)
nonprofit charitable organization! This was great news as they hoped
that now they would be able to bring in some donation to at least
pay to feed all the horses in the rescue. With the help of some
volunteers
they
decided to have their first big fundraiser on the 4th of July. In
the small town of Taylorsville, CA where they lived there is a good
old fashiond parade and a full size Rodeo. They all hoped that
Tawnee would hold together until after the big fundraiser, since her
due date come and gone. The fundraising was great and over $300 was
raised. It was a huge success! By July we had already saved 24
horses. On July 7th Tawnee was induced into labor and after 36 hours
of contractions, 8 hours of pushing and then a c-section Justin was
born! This put Tawnee out of commission for a little while, but the
rescue moved full steam ahead. In the fall we got exciting news that
the rescue would be getting a very large donation
in
loving memory of Robert and Louise Krume in 2006.
By the and 2005
we had rescued 50 equines from a life of unknown.
2006: Now NorCal Equine Rescue was in its first full year of being a
501(c)(3)
nonprofit and by the
end of March we had already rescued 18 horses, including our very
first group of horses from a feedlot in NV. We rescued 3 pregnant
mares and a mare and her 3 day old foal. By this time the rescue was
starting to be able to feed its own horses. This was great for Jason
as now he didn't have to work quite so hard to fund the rescue. In
July we received the donation from the
Robert and
Louise Krume estate of $150,000.00! This donation is the reason
NorCal Equine Rescue has really been able to grow and prosper, if it
was not for Robert and Louise Krume the rescue would still be
struggling along and Jason would still be working in construction to
fund the rescue. At this point Tawnee & Jason both started working
full time so that with more manpower more horses could be saved.
The rescue was able to buy some much needed equipment and supplies
to help it run better and be able to save more horses.
A move was in the future, Jason & Tawnee lived in the high mountains near
Taylorsville, CA. The winters were too hard on the rescued
horses, so it was time to head down to a warmer place. A place was
found in Oroville, Ca and was rented for 6 months as Jason & Tawnee
looked for suitable land to buy for themselves so the rescue could
use it. At the end of the year Jason & Tawnee had found 10 acres of
land to buy. The rescue was able to rescue 69 equines from the
known in 2006!
2007: This was a very busy year with getting the new ranch up. From
the end of February we moved full time to the new ranch, and with
little more than a round pen and electric rope pens we continued
rescuing horses at an ever increasing rate. With help from the
Claire Gianini fund we were able to purchase a 4 stall horse barn,
which greatly improved our ability to rescue special needs horses.
By the end of July we had rescued almost 40 horses and placed them
into loving homes. In August we partnered with Shirley Puga
who had single-handedly been saving feedlot horses from the same
feedlot we had rescued our first group from in 2006. By
October we had rescued over 100 horses, and were then contacted by
Petfinder to provide a horse for their new TV show, Petfinder
Series. We had the perfect horse, Mya, and so we drove down to
LA to be with Mya for the filming. (See "Mya's Story" page for
the full story.) By the end of 2007 we had rescued a total of
234 horses, making it a huge success! So far NorCal Equine
Rescue had saved 394 equines from an unknown future.
2008:
We will see, so far over 80 equines have been rescued this year
alone...
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