NER E-News: 12-7

NER E-News

7-19-2007 ~ Vol. 3, Issue 6

Featured Horse:

Hello fellow horse lovers! We have 11 new horses at our rescue. 2 came from Merced County Animal Control, 6 came from a feedlot in Nevada, 1 came from an auction and 2 yearling Paso Finos were running loose near Vacaville, CA. Freckles was adopted back in March and then her adopter tried to sell her, but thankfully the bad adopter was caught!

In This Issue:

New Horses
Still Waiting for Homes
Draft Dodger
Bad Adopter!
Help Feed The Horses

New Horses Needing Homes
For pictures go to SaveTheHorse.com or click here.

Pride is back as his adopter is now expecting a child, she is no longer able to spend the time she wanted to with him. Luv'n was rescued from an auction. Missy Mouse and Go Spot Go were rescued by Merced County Animal Control and given to NER. NER #'s 291-296 were rescued from a feedlot, they were to be sent to slaughter but they are safe now! Luna and Campeon were running loose and were going to have to be shot if we didn't save them.
We have been so busy with the horses we don't have the info about them on our website yet, but we do have more pictures of them and will have the info up as soon as we can. Feel free to call us to find out info about a horse if you are interested in one, our office number is 530-534-7742.

Name: Luv N Staff Breed: Appaloosa Sex: Mare Age: 23 years Height: 15.2 hands NER #: 287 Adoption Fee: $650 Status: Available	Name: Luv N Stuff Breed: Appaloosa Sex: Mare Age: 23 years Height: 15.2 hands NER #: 287 Adoption Fee: $650 Status: Pending
Name: Missy Mouse Breed: Arabian Sex: Filly Age: 2 years Height: 14. hands+/- NER #: 289 Adoption Fee: $300 Status: Available	Name: Go Spot Go Breed: Paint / cross Sex: Filly Age: 3 years Height: 14.3 hands +/- NER #: 290 Adoption Fee: $300 Status: Available
Name: Colorfast Breed: TN Walker Sex: Mare Age: 23 years Height: 15.3 hands NER #: 291 Adoption Fee: $550 Status: Available	Name: Mahogany Breed: Morgan Sex: Mare Age: 20 years Height: 15.2 hands NER #: 292 Adoption Fee: $550 Status: Pending
Name: Farina Breed: TB Sex: Mare Age: 16 years Height: 16 hands NER #: 293 Adoption Fee: $550 Status: Available	Name: Zappy Breed: QH Sex: Gelding Age: 18 years Height: 14.2 hands NER #: 294 Adoption Fee: $750 Status: Available
Name: Jim Dandy Breed: TB Sex: Gelding Age: 20 years Height: 17 hands NER #: 295 Adoption Fee: $450 Status: Available	Name: Jericho Breed: Paint / Draft /cross Sex: Gelding Age: 19 years Height: 15.3 hands NER #: 296 Adoption Fee: $400 Status: Available
Name: Luna Breed: Paso Fino Sex: Filly Age: 1 year Height: 13 hands +/- NER #: 297 Status: Being evaluated.	Name: Campeon Breed: Paso Fino Sex: Colt Age: 1 years Height: 13 hands +/- NER #: 298 Status: Being evaluated, adoption fee unknown

Still Waiting For Homes
See the available for adoption page, click here.

Name: Draft Dodger Breed: Draft /cross Sex: Gelding Age: 3 years Height: 15 hands +/- NER #: 275 Adoption Fee: Free Status: Available	Name: Brighty Breed: QH /cross Sex: Filly Age: 2 years Height: 14 hands +/- NER #: 276 Adoption Fee: $300 Status: Available
Name: Zamba Breed: QH /cross Sex: Colt Age: 2 years Height: 14.1 hands NER #: 277 Adoption Fee: $285 Status: Available	Name: Chance Breed: QH / Draft /cross Sex: Colt Age: 2 years Height: 14.2 hands +/- NER #: 278 Adoption Fee: $285 Status: Available

Draft Dodger

Draft Dodger was adopted into a home back on June 22nd and is now back at our rescue.
Draft Dodger was having trouble in his new home. He started kicking and in one week he kicked 4 people, 2 went to the hospital, one with broken ribs and another with a concussion. He has never kicked any NER staff, when our trainer was working with him he tried, but she corrected his actions. With all the horses and only one trainer the NER's Board of Directors (BOD) has made the decision that we will try to find a good horse trainer to adopt him to that can work with him and give him the time that he needs or a person that will adopt him and find a horse trainer to work with him. He is starting to lead but will need to be taken from ground zero. His adoption fee has been waved as the NER's BOD feels that the funds that would have been his adoption fee would be better used for Draft Dodger's schooling. If you feel that you would be qualified to adopt Draft Dodger and give him the training that he needs or know of someone, please let us know.
The Monty Roberts International Learning Center offered to take him into their annual 'Special Class' coming up next month (August 6-10th) but we would need a volunteer to take him there and bring him back when the class is over. It is about 450 miles from NorCal Equine Rescue to Monty Roberts International Learning Center, which would take the total traveling about 1800 miles. If you would be interested please let us know ASAP. Thank You!

Bad Adopter!

Back on March 5th, Freckles was adopted to what seemed to be a wonderful family, they had previously owned older horses and wanted so badly to give Freckles a forever home. All seemed to be fine until we saw that the adopter was trying to sell Freckles on a website! The ad read, "Lady - 20 yo Grey Arab Mare - Bomb proof - Just a sweetheart - Not registered - Just needs some TLC - Awesome kids horse - $750 obo." We knew it was the adopter from her user name. We take our contract very seriously when it reads that you cannot sell the adopted equine until adoption is final. The adopter adopted her for $200 and tried to sell her for $750 three months later. We called the bad adopter as if we were a buyer interested in "Lady", after she told us all about "her" we told her who we were. There was a long silence and then we told her that she must have Freckles back to our rescue ASAP, she said that she would let us know as soon as she could bring her back. She didn't make contact with us after that. We tried to contact her but she would not email us back or return our phone calls. We feared what could happen to Freckles, she had been adopted some hours away from our rescue. We contacted other horse lovers in her area and soon we had a volunteer. The volunteer was able to take Freckles to her home where she was safe until we were able to bring her back to our rescue. We had a local approved adopter waiting to be matched with an older horse or two for a pet to love until their last days. Freckles was the perfect match and as Freckles would need a friend the adopter also adopted Slewcie. Both horses are very happy in their new home together.

The first picture on the left is when she was first adopted - the right ones are after she was taken from the bad adopter.
We will be taking legal action about this, we are the horse's voice.
If there are any of you readers out there thinking that you are going to adopt one of our horses, turn around and try to sell it to make money, take note: NorCal Equine Rescue will find out and we will protect the horses we have rescued and you will not get away with it!

Help Feed The Horses!

If you have been getting our e-news mailings for long, you know that we are

saving a lot of horses and here is your chance to help by buying hay. We can get 3 twined hay, grass or alfalfa depending on the needs of the horses, at a mere $8.50 a bale. NER goes through 6 - 10 tons of hay each month and the more horses we rescue the more hay we need. We need about 150 bales for this month. With 17 horses in our rescue we feed a lot of hay. Some of the feedlot horses are thin and need extra rations of hay. We are hoping that you will buy a bale or 2. All you have to do is donate the money to pay for as many bales as you feel impressed to donate, whether it be 1 or all. Every bale is definitely needed and will be enjoyed by a rescued horse. Every hay bale will raise the thermometer and bring us closer to the goal for this month. The hay is about half the price then it is at the feed store and the more money that is saved from the high prices of hay will help save more horses that are out there just waiting for someone to save them and give them the love they so badly need.

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