WE DID IT!! THEY HAVE ARRIVED!! THANK ALL OF YOU WHO MADE THIS POSSIBLE. THANK YOU FOR GIVING THEM A SECOND CHANCE!
My name is Hope, and I am a pregnant mare in Canada. I have 20 friends, 19 of them also pregnant, who have been Premarin mares at a ranch in Canada our whole lives. We need your help desperately, because all of us are scheduled for slaughter on April 10th!
Please, we want the chance to live to see our foals born. We want to see our precious babies run and play, We want to love and nurture them. We want to see them grow up into strong, beautiful, proud horses. With your help, this can happen.
Some kind people in Arizona and Texas have offered to drive up with their trailers and rescue us, but they need the money to buy us at 80 cents a pound, because that is what the slaughterhouse would pay the rancher for our meat. The people in Texas have the money for 10 of us, but the people in Arizona need help to fund their half of the rescue effort.
Please consider sending anything you can to free us and give us a chance! We are all very pregnant, and need to be transported immediately before we deliver our foals here in Canada. Then it is too late for us.
Please help us. Even a small donation will mean so much.
Once these mares get to Arizona, we will need fosters for them, but the immediate crisis is raising the funds to get them safely to Arizona. We heed to buy the horses from the rancher, pay the border fee, and pay for gasoline to drive to the border and pick them up. We need to do this immediately, since they are due to deliver very soon.
These mares have spent their entire lives perpetually pregnant, confined in tiny tie stalls with catheters in their bladders. Please help give the mares and foals a chance at a life of freedom and love.
Update 3/1/07 Our Equine Veterinarian had decided that these mares need to be transported NOW. He feels that their pregnancies are so advanced that there is considerable danger in waiting to transport.
Stress can cause an early delivery, and if a horse delivers a foal in the crowded trailer, it would be a disaster.
We have hired a horse transport company out of Canada to bring them down right away. We need to pay for the horses, pay the border fee and pay the transporter on Tuesday 3/6/07! So the need is even more urgent than we thought.
The mares should arrive in Prescott on Saturday 3/10. Pray for them.
3/8/07 Another delay. The Texas horses are being delivered first. Our mares will be picked up on March 14th and should be here by March 17th or 18th. Keep your fingers crossed that we have no early deliveries. We have raised $9,000, and that is astounding. The money has been raised by many, many people giving just what they could. It is heartwarming that so many people care about these pregnant mares.
Let me ask all of you to call your Senators and your Congressmen and ask them to support the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act. We may not be able to stop the slaughter in Canada, but we can stop it here. We slaughter 100,000 healthy horses every year in the US for human consumption in France, Belgium, and Japan. Let's stand up as Americans and say WE DO NOT EAT OUR FRIENDS! All of the slaughterhouses in the US are foreign owned and operated. Please, call now!
The mares will be in Prescott for 10 days after they arrive at the Granite Mountain Stables. You are welcome to come and meet the horses who you have saved. After that, they will go to their adoptive or foster homes. In a few weeks, we will have foals!
3/18/07 The mares arrived today. They are healthy and robust, and very pregnant. They are all going to wonderful adoptive and foster homes, thanks to your generosity.
It was an emotional, sweet arrival. I could not help but think of these beautiful creature's gruesome destiny had we not saved them. The thought of these magnificent creatures being cold-heartedly slaughtered was overwhelmingly sad.
They were hungry and very thirsty, but energetic and spunky. The first thing they did was roll and roll in the fresh straw. Then they drank, then they ate.
Many of them are quite approachable and sweet. They are all beautiful.
Thank you so much for your part in saving them. You are welcome to come and visit them.
Remember, there is much more work to be done. Please call your Senators and Congressmen and encourage them to sponsor and vote yes on the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Bill. This bill will prevent the 100,000 horses slaughtered every year in the US from dying at the hands of the foreign butchers. Did you know that all three horse slaughterhouses in the US are foreign owned? Did you know that the meat goes to tables in France, Belgium, and Japan for human consumption? Americans, as a rule, do not eat horsemeat!
Contrary to popular belief, horsemeat is generally not used in dogfood, and horse by-products are never used to make glue anymore. So without the demand for horsemeat from foreign countries, there will be no need to slaughter horses.
Horses are an essential piece of American history. They allowed us to conquer the west, produce food, travel long distances. They pulled our sleds and carriages, carried us as we fought our wars. And most importantly, they have been our friends. Let's stop betraying them!
Deborah Wilson
Thank you, Deborah Wilson, Director, Circle L Ranch. The mares thank you too.
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