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SAFE News and Updates
Corona — Initial Intake — Feb 10, 2011
Corona is a coming 10 year old bay Reg. TB gelding (registered name “Triple Copy”), 17h who was surrendered by his owner to a private individual who then surrendered him to SAFE. As we understand the situation, the owner had fallen on hard times and the horse has an injury to his penis she could not afford to treat. She had advertised him on Craiglist as a free horse, and when a private…
Photos and videos of Holly — Feb 9, 2011
Here are some recent photos and video clips of Holly.
Sasha — Feb 8, 2011
From Megan: Hello everyone–sorry I’m not as good at keeping up with posts here as I should be. I wanted to share a quick update on Sasha. She had about a year off and back in September we started into work. Once we got back to full work in December (including cantering) she started to have issues again and is lame again. We did an ultrasound and began consultation with a surgeon for her rt hind…
Baxter Update — Feb. 5, 2011
It’s been a while since we have given a Baxter update. Baxter is a tough nut to crack, he’s clearly got a strong distrust of people and shows clear signs of being abused. However, he’s also retained a lot of his stallion-like behaviors from being gelded late in life and has a very dominant personality. He was adopted out once and returned because he intimidated his adopter with his aloof, even…
Sinatra Update — 1/27/11
Our volunteer Sara stopped in and visited Sinatra on Thursday and also got a chance to watch him being ridden in a jumping lesson. He is just as cute a button jumping, and what was on his stall but FOUR BLUE RIBBONS! He won all four of his cross-rails classes at the Gold Creek show! Here are some pictures and a few short video clips, enjoy!
Lexi — Pending Adoption!
Cross your fingers, toes, and hooves for Lexi that she has found her home! She is pending adoption!
Sinatra — Jan 22 2011, Gold Creek Jumper Schooling Show
This past Saturday Sinatra attended his first show under saddle at Gold Creek Equestrian Center in Woodinville! Sinatra has been fostered by Sundance Equestrian Center and has been ridden by a teenage girl under the guidance of trainer Katherine Wade-Easley. They started Sinatra over jumps this fall and this was Sinatra’s first under-saddle show and first time jumping a course. He did four…
Delilah Update — Jan 20 2011
Delilah is coming along beautifully in her training and is going walk/trot/canter under saddle. Today we put shoes on her as she has been a little footsore ever since the ground was frozen. She immediately was moving much more comfortably. The trainer called me today and said that her and her mother (who owns the farm) have really taken a liking to Delilah and think that she might be a good…
A Special Offer from January’s HeARTist
Here’s a wonderful gift from SAFE’s HeARTist of the month, Liz Stabbert Photography! A free desktop wallpaper calendar featuring Liz’s portrait of Honeycutt! Click here to visit Liz’s site and download your free gift. Our Featured HeARTist, Liz Stabbert is just going all out to make January her SAFE month & there’s still time to take her up on her amazing offer to support SAFE when you…
Welcome to the new SAFE website!
The new SAFE website debuted today. It’s located at www.safehorses.org. My hope is that this website will incorporate all the best features of our Message Board, our old website, and Facebook. This post is somewhat of a test to try out our ability to automatically repost to Facebook, so if you’re viewing this there, I guess it worked. There is still a lot of work to be done on the new site,…
Zan Update — Jan 12 2011
Zan and I rode last night, despite the wind. I decided to lunge her first to see how she felt with the wind whipping and let her adjust to the sound the arena roof makes with a big gust (it even made me jump the first few times I heard it!). She gave a few bucks on the lungeline but seemed to have her wits about her so I hopped on. At first she was on her toes a bit and kept trotting faster and…
Charmeon Update
Charmeon has had some training now and lightly started under saddle but still needs more. The owner has since lost her home and sold her furniture to pay for board and training for her two horses. This is a nice mare that still has a lot of potential!
Zan Update from Jan 9 2011
I liked Zan so much I called the trainer to see if she’d come down and give me a lesson today. While Zan was a bit of a nut on the lunge line yesterday (bucking and racing around before settling in) today she gave me a quiet, rythmic trot instead. I’ve been told this normal for her- she needs to be lunged if she has more than one day off- but otherwise it’s fine to just jump right on her. Andrea…
Lexi Update from Jan 9 2011
I just thought I’d update Lexi’s thread. She’s a volunteer favorite. She’s so sweet and easy to handle. It seems like she’s always out getting groomed or loved on. I rode her a few times last fall in anticipation of her being looked at by a potential adopter (and of course, before that, she was at a great foster home where she was being worked consistently) but I don’t think she’s been ridden…
Dexter Video from Jan 8 2011
Dexter back under saddle after being returned to SAFE in December.
Dexter Update from Jan 8 2011
I’m sad to report that Dexter is back at SAFE. While I like to hang out with him- I was really hoping to never see his cute face again. He was a very good boy for his potential adopter for about 2 months and then he had some behavioral issues and was returned. It sounds like this incident was pretty similar to what I experienced with him at the SAFE show. Dexter is an easy guy 90 (or more!)…
Sampson — adopted by Susanne Y of Redmond WA
Congratulations to Suzanne Y. of Redmond, WA on her adoption of Sampson!!! This was a match made in heaven and we couldn’t be more thrilled for both of you!
Lola & Bubbles Photos
Here are some lovely photos of Lola and Bubbles taken by Karen Wegehenkel this fall. This photo shoot included photos of Sampson and Lucky too. All of the photos can be viewed by visiting Karen Wegehenkel’s website.
Monroe Monitor: Featured Non-Profit
Featured Non-Profit: SAFE by Polly Keary Published Dec 16 2010 Editor’s Note: Each week through the holiday season, the Monroe Monitor features a local non-profit, as many non-profits depend on the donations they get during the season of giving. This week we go to a horse rescue operation in Monroe that rescues horses that might otherwise go to slaughter, rehabilitates them and finds them good…
Honeycutt Update from June 9 2010
We were worried that Honeycutt might have troubles adjusting to his new foster home, as change is hard for him as he is such a worried, timid horse. We needn’t have been concerned, he has settled in just fine. 🙂
2010 Best of Western Washington
SAFE is honored to be among the winners of the KING‑5/Evening Magazine 2010 Best of Western Washington awards. We were voted 5th place in the category of Favorite Local Charity, out of a total of 132 nominees in that category with more than 400,000 votes cast. Thank you to everyone who voted for us!
Seattle Times: Animal-cruelty charges filed against Enumclaw woman
Animal-cruelty charges filed against Enumclaw woman by Christine Clarridge Originally published Friday, March 5, 2010 at 2:53 PM An Enumclaw woman who has been blamed for the deaths of more than two dozen farm animals over the course of two months was charged Friday with two counts of first-degree animal cruelty. If convicted, Karen E. Thomas, 46, would face up to a year in jail, prosecutors…
KOMO-TV: Investigation finds gruesome horse neglect
Investigation finds gruesome horse neglect By Michelle Esteban and KOMO News Staff Aired on Feb 5 2009 SNOHOMISH, Wash. — A Snohomish woman has been linked to a gruesome animal cruelty investigation that was launched after one of her horses was found starved to death and another was found near death. Investigators want her charged with animal cruelty, and on Thursday they handed over their…
Everett Herald: Horse Rescued from Starvation Still Struggling
Horse rescued from starvation still struggling By Debra Smith, Everett Herald Writer Published Dec 22 2008 MONROE — Whisper, the horse rescued from a Snohomish field, lived through the weekend, but she’s not out of danger yet, said her caretaker. “We’ll keep trying for her as long as she shows us she wants to live,” said Jaime Taft by e‑mail this morning. Taft’s nonprofit equine rescue…
Everett Herald: Cold is Cruel to Ailing Filly
Cold is cruel to ailing filly By Debra Smith, Herald Writer Published Dec 20 2008 MONROE — Jaime Taft is trying to save a horse’s life, and Mother Nature isn’t helping. The filly — gaunt and covered in sores — was rescued along with two others from a Snohomish field on Orchard Avenue Dec. 7. The owner, a 27-year-old Snohomish woman, turned over custody of the horses to police. Two remain…
KOMO-TV: Help needed for starved horses
Help needed for starved horses by KOMO staff Aired on Dec 8 2008 SNOHOMISH, Wash. — Animal control officers are asking for help caring for neglected horses after finding one horse dead and several others starving at a Snohomish home in what they’re calling the worst case of horse neglect they have ever seen. Police Commander Fred Havener said the horses were found Sunday evening at a home in…
Horsebytes: Crocodile Tears
Crocodile Tears by Monica Bretherton Published Nov 4 2008 Do crocodiles cry for the victims they are eating, as legend holds? Certainly not — they have no tear ducts. Jean Elledge does, as she demonstrated again at her sentencing hearing in Snohomish County Superior Court yesterday. There was no glare of publicity this time, only the grey light of a damp November afternoon from the bank of…
Everett Herald: Monroe woman gets year in jail for animal cruelty
Seattle Times: Monroe woman sentenced to year in jail for starving horses
Monroe woman sentenced to year in jail for starving horses By The Associated Press Published Nov 4 2008 EVERETT — A Monroe woman who starved five horses to death was sentenced to a year in jail for animal cruelty. The 57-year-old woman, Jean Marie Elledge, pleaded guilty last month and was sentenced Monday in Snohomish County Superior Court. She had been paid to board horses in Monroe and…
Horsebytes: Facing the Ghosts
Facing the Ghosts by Monica Bretherton Published Oct 19 2008 Jean Elledge appeared before Judge Ramsdell at the King County Courthouse at 2:45 yesterday for sentencing on the three counts of Animal Cruelty in the First Degree to which she entered a guilty plea in Superior Court. I had never been to a sentencing hearing, and in case you haven’t either, the prosecutor makes a sentencing…
