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   June 8th: There were about 60 horses at the auction, and NorCal history was made: 23 horses were saved thanks to the generosity of our supporters, and the killer buyers only went home with 6 horses!  It's sad that those 6 had to go with them, but it sure is better than most months. The KB's faces were full of bewilderment as we kept outbidding and outbidding them on horses.  We would see a horse come in, and if they started bidding we would bid and they would immediately turn around and glare at us. They probably wondered when we were going to run out of money and room, but, we had plenty of funds, room and hay to rescue a record number of horses. Many of the killer buyers went home with empty trailers. Their glares continued long after the auction out into the parking lot.

   Now for an amazing rescue story! A white mare that we rescued at the auction has an amazing story with us. We first came in contact with her in September of 2004 when Sheriff dispatch called us up on a Saturday morning to get some loose horses that were wandering around the woods near Hwy 70 in Quincy. In a flash we were out and on the road, in the end we had to 4 wheel drive down crazy abandoned logging trails with our horse trailer. In the end we managed to track down and rescue the 3 horses that were loose before they were hit on Hwy 70. This mare was one of them.
   All three were returned to their owner and we hoped we wouldn't have to rescue them again. We were wrong. This mare we next saw almost a year later at Roseville Livestock Auction. Her owner was selling her and Tawnee was determined to rescue her that time. Unfortunate she bid up much higher than our limited budget would allow, but we knew at least she was not going for meat.
  It has been about 2 years later, and while Tawnee was at the auction watching horses be unloaded, she saw this mare get unloaded and immediately recognized her. Tawnee was glued to her and wanted to ensure that she would make it into the rescue this time. She purchased her before she was sent through the auction. This really made Tawnee's day! This mare who we named Snow back in 2004 is now named Lily, so we'll keep it Lily since that is the name she knows. Lily (aka Snow) was the 29th horse that came in to our rescue, and now she is back at NER # 631! Her lost and found NER # was 131. It is so amazing to have a horse that touched our lives at the beginning of our organization come back into our organization after so many years.
  Tawnee has been reunited forever with Lily. Tawnee has chosen to adopt Lily as she is such a sweet horse, she has come into our lives 3 times over the last 4 years, and each time she left a special place in Tawnee's heart, so this time she is staying.

   June 10th: There was a raging fire just a few miles from us, in a mostly upwind direction. At about 3:00 pm the fire was about 4 miles from us. The word was we are going to be officially evacuated that evening, so we started evacuating the horses while we could, moving them to our 10 acre foster home in Gridley.  We got 11 of the horses moved out to the Gridley pasture before we were told that it was OK to stop evacuating the fire was dieing out and the wind had stopped. We felt so sorry for the poor horses, it was 11 from the last auction, and then they were shuffled back into the trailer, they probably thought they were heading back to the auction.
 

   Starting in June people started telling us the they had nominated Tawnee for Animal Planet Hero of the Year. Tawnee is greatly honored by this so now there is a page on our web site that is all about Tawnee, her life and what she plans to do if she is awarded Hero of the Year. Please check out Tawnee's web page and nominate her if you are acquainted with her by
Clicking Here.

  As of today we now have high speed internet! This is going to much our lives so much easier!  At approximately 20 times faster than our previous dial-up, it should make our job go quite a bit quicker in the office.