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NorCal Equine Rescue
P.O. Box 6108
Oroville, CA 95966
530-282-5565
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2003 - 2010 by
NorCal Equine Rescue
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About Us
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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 |
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: This was quite a
banner year, 383 equines were rescued!
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