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NER E-News |
9-1-2008 ~ Vol. 4,
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The Last Act of Kindness |
Recently a small horse rescue (we
will not be releasing their identity in this E-news as
we do not wish them harm in any way nor do we wish to
encourage their financial support to languish)
launched a vicious public attack against us, our
supporters, and indirectly encouraged horses to be sent
to slaughter. They vigorously begged the public to
cease financially
supporting our rescue.
They accused of us
having a policy wherein we euthanize any horse
that has been in our program for 60 days regardless of
its health
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condition. This is an absolute fabrication meant to cast
doubt and confusion in peoples minds, and as they stated
"People need to know so they will stop donating to
them." They had absolutely no knowledge of how our Last
Act of Kindness program works or the great deal of good
that it does.
In the entire time our organization has been in
existence, only 29 horses have passed away while
in our rescue program. 23 have been humanely euthanized
and 6 passed away of natural causes. Less than 4% of
equines that come into our rescue are euthanized, and
the majority are in great pain and have no chance
of recovery. We have never euthanized a healthy, sound,
non-dangerous equine.
Since 2003 we have rescued 641 equines. Another
accusation is that the information regarding the
LAK program has been kept secret and has just
become public knowledge thanks to a secret spy revealing
it. This is
preposterous as the
LAK program has been detailed on our front page
of our website since April when it started and we sent
out an E-news to our E-news list.
Click Here to read the Last Act of
Kindness E-news.
For anyone that does not understand the Last Act of
Kindness program, it was inspired by the sight of
unwanted,
unadoptable horses being loaded into killer
trucks for the long ride to Mexico or Canada.
Click here for more
information. Purchasing
them, giving them love and the best chance we can of
finding them a home, and then humanely euthanized if no
home can be found, is far better than
walking away and leaving them to die a brutal death at
the slaughter house.
With the economy experiencing difficulty and the
price of hay skyrocketing, horses are being disposed of
in record numbers. Pro-slaughter advocates have a
renewed argument: there are thousands of unwanted
horses. They say slaughter houses must be re-opened!
But, we say "No!" Rescues must band together, look at
the big picture, and we must do what is right. It is
far better for a horse to be humanely euthanized than be
sent through the absolute torture and brutality of
slaughter.
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Some
Current Needs! |
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Below you will be able to see what some of our current
pressings needs are. Please help however you can, even
a $5 donation helps out a lot! The first current need is
a hay barn to replace our 10'x20' carport hay barn
before winter. The other current need is the next
auction rescue on Sept 14th. Help us save the horses
from the killer buyers! For more information, please
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Hay Barn
Raising! |
 We
are hav'n a good old hay barn rais'n! If
you can't lend a helping hammer and
hand, maybe a dollar? Winter is coming
soon and we really need a big dry place
for all the hay that the many rescued
horses so badly need.
We have been researching hay barns for
some time now.
EQ-wine
Covers has a really nice 48'
X 48' hay barn for
$8,994.00 -
unless the prices go
 up.
We really need this hay barn, we have
been buying hay in large amounts,
the hay is in the open air and
with no rain in the summer time it has
been working great,
but we have a big problem. Our current
hay barn is a 10'x20' portable carport
that can hold about 90 bales at a
time.
Hay is one of the must important
things to the horses and we really need
a big hay barn so if you can help us out
please do so. It would be great to be
able to fill the barn while the hay is
cheaper than wintertime.
We must get this barn in before winter,
we need to have the funds in by Sep 30th.
Please do what you can to help get the
barn raised before the winter rains hit!
Click
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Help Keep The Hay Dry - Time is Ticking Down!
05 Days, 06 Hours, 00
Minutes, 33 Seconds.
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Our Next Auction Rescue -
September 14th. |
For the
September 14th auction. - With the
last funds raised for saving horses from
auctions we were able to save 16 horses and did
this with $5,000.00 in donations! Since March
of this year, when we started fundraising to
save horses directly from livestock auctions in
particular, we have saved 123 horses from
auctions. Our goal this month is $5,000.00 for
the rescue and care of the auction horses.
It is
very important the Killer Buyers leave
with empty horse trailers. The Killer Buyers are
driving long distances to the auctions and then
thanks to your support, they are forced to drive
home with empty trailers. With the high price of
fuel we know that it is hurting them. Please
help us save more horses from the fate of the
Killer Buyers!
All Road Communications
will
match all donations
towards this rescue up to $2,500, for a total of
$5,000 towards this auction rescue and care for
the horses! Each dollar that you donate will be
doubled. Even $5 will turn into $10 just like
that thanks to the generosity of Chris and Janet
at
All Road
Communications.
The matches will be added at the end of the
fundraising.
Click Here for more info.
Please send us a name for a horse when making
your donation, many of the horses will need
names.
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So far this year we have saved 250 equines! Help us
save more horses from abuse, slaughter and starvation. |
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NorCal Equine Rescue - P.O. Box 6108 Oroville, CA 95966
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info@savethehorse.com
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