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SAFE News and Updates
Char Update — 4/10/11
Today my neighbor, Natalie, who happens to be a Grand Prix show jumper/trainer, came over and helped me work with Char for her first ride since she arrived at SAFE a week ago. We took her out and put her in the cross-ties, and she was very, very good for being tied, grooming, having her feet picked, saddling, bridling, all of it. She was patient, sweet, and very good-natured as we found a…
Holly — pending adoption!
Holly has had quite a bit of interest in her (no surprise there). Merle’s been understandably picky about where her Holly will go, but we think we may have found a great home for her. Pending adoption!
Dexter — NH clinic
One of our volunteers, Debi, has a small boarding facility in Clearview and she has a Parelli instructor named Michael Sparling come to her barn and do clinics. She spoke to Michael about Dexter and he agreed to work with Dexter at no charge to SAFE. Here’s a synopsis of how the clinic went, from Debi: I am grateful to SAFE for allowing me to take Dexter for the weekend to participate in a…
Corona Update April 3 2011
Corona is doing well, but still not completely healed. He remains very tolerant for his treatments, however. He is also doing something we have seen with a few starved horses, where they come in with a thick winter coat with a top layer of really long, wiry guard hairs on top. The winter coat sheds out, but the guard hairs don’t right away, and because of a lack of nutrition or their bodies…
Romeo — April 3
Romeo is doing very well after his castration, and tolerating his forced exercise well. Dr. Hannah reports he is still somewhat agitated and pacing in his stall, which is actually helping keeping the swelling under control. That should go away in a couple more weeks as the hormones completely leave his body. In other news, Dr. Bryant reviewed his x‑rays and was pretty impressed by the…
Sinatra — April 3
Sinatra has been lunged the last several days to see if his lameness issue got any worse, and to make it more easy to detect with nerve blocks because it was very mild at best and not sensitive to hoof testers and not positive on a flexion test. So far, he has remained completely sound, so he may be fine. He does have someone interested in him as a possible foster to adopt situation, so cross…
Zan Update — April 3
Zanadu was a popular girl this weekend, having two potential adopters come and meet her this weekend. She has been a little grouchy lately on the ground, not sure if it is related to coming into heat or what. She’s fussy and overly sensitive about being groomed before she is ridden, but after that she is much happier and more settled. Holly also had two visitors this weekend, so hopefully we…
Charmeon arrives at SAFE — April 3
Charmeon arrived at the SAFE facility on Saturday afternoon. As part of our commitment to Char’s owner, we had placed her on a waiting list for when we had an opening for Char to come into our program, and meanwhile she had kept her in training until the end of March. Char has apparently done extremely well with her training, and she goes English and Western, has been out on the trails alone…
April Volunteer of the Month: Allison Sheka
Our volunteer of the month is Allison! Allison is our longest volunteer, having been with us since 2006. Allison is now our Volunteer Coordinator and she has also had the opportunity to ride some of the wonderful horses at SAFE — most notably Cedar (RIP) and now Annie. A little about Allison in her own words: I’ve been a volunteer with SAFE since 2006, when I learned about horse slaughter and…
2011 Q2 Impact Statement
New Horses Intake Date: April 5, 2011 Mr Pibb, 25+ yo Morgan gelding (King Co Animal Control) Shasta, 11 yo mini horse mare (King Co Animal Control) Sunny D, 2.5 yo mini horse gelding (King Co Animal Control) Intake Date: April 28, 2011 April, 6 yo paint mare (Skagit Co Animal Control) Intake Date: June 30, 2011 Lucy, 8 yo Halflinger mare (owner surrender) Leo, 2.5 yo Halflinger colt (owner…
Romeo — Gelded!
Romeo was successfully gelded today by Dr. Hannah at NWESC. She reported that he did very well, she was a little worried about the recovery because of his leg and his age, but he stayed down very quiet after he woke up and then got up without drama. He will stay at NWESC for the next few weeks while he recovers. In other news, his xrays, which showed a congenital defect in his right hind…
Baxter — Adopted!
Congratulations to Mandy Klebe of Yelm, Wa on her adoption of Baxter!
Romeo — 6 year old Hackney stallion
Romeo is a 6 year old (7 in May) Hackney stallion, dark bay/white pinto, 14.2h, that was surrendered to SAFE after being abandoned on a property in Mill Creek two years ago. The property owners have been feeding the horse and lost contact with the owner two years ago, after the owner asked if she could keep the horse in their pasture for a while. After they realized that the horse had been…
Biscotti Site Visit 2011
Here are some photos of Biscotti and his adopter Tracy at his site check on 3/20/11. He is just shy of 3 years old and as you can see, Tracy has started some light under-saddle training with him. He looks just great!
Miah — photo gallery
Shiloh — photo gallery
Khianna — photo gallery
Nadia Update
Nadia is doing great! She is now going walk, trot and canter off the lungeline in the big arena. She was a little testy about being ridden at first, being sulky about going forward and generally crabby, but finally instead of trying to work with her like a horse that was not yet started with a ground person, the trainer took her off the lungeline and just pushed her forward around the arena and…
Delilah — Adopted!
Congratulations to Eileen D. of Everett, WA on her adoption of Delilah! Eileen takes lessons with our trainer, Andrea Lucianna, and fell in love with Delilah while she was in training. Eileen had to put down her wonderful gelding, Spencer, last year due to a suspensory injury, and she didn’t think she would ever find another horse to fill that hole in her heart, and then she met Delilah.…
ESMA Award for Best Use of Social Media by a Charity (International)
SAFE is honored to have received the Equine Social Media Award for Best Use of Social Media by a Charity (International). The winners in this category were announced today during a video award ceremony, which you can view on ESMA’s You Tube channel or in the video embedded below. SAFE would like to thank everyone who nominated us and voted for us in the finals. If you’re just arriving at SAFE,…
Sasha — March 5, 2011
Photos from Sasha’s site check. She is off next week for surgery at WSU:
Lucky under saddle — Feb 20, 2011
Here is the video from Victoria’s lesson on Lucky on February 20th:
Zanadu under saddle — Feb 20, 2011
Here is the video of Sara riding Zanadu in her lesson on 2/20/11:
Tia Update — Mar 2, 2011
Yesterday, I met with Dr. Hannah and some of the caretakers to discuss Tia. While she has settled down from her very unsettling episodes of extreme anxiety that she was exhibiting a couple of weeks ago, she is still generally showing some signs of agitation at times. She is not comfortable being turned out in the pasture at all and even when turned out in the arena, seems to spend a lot of…
Nadia Update — Mar. 2, 2011
Here is a photo of Nadia under saddle yesterday. She actually was not very good yesterday, she is very herdbound to her pasture mate and was screaming and fairly tuned out to the trainer (she’s since been moved and now shares a pasture with Delilah, who gets along with her but mostly ignores her). When the trainer would lean over her back and go to mount, she actually got a little nasty about…
March Volunteers of the Month: Abby and Andrew
Introducing our volunteers of the month, Abby and Andrew! Abby and Andrew are a couple that have been volunteering once a week at SAFE for about a year and a half now. They come on Friday mornings and are reliable, efficient, and always cheerful! They have also taken over training of new volunteers and helped work with the horses as well. They are a huge asset to SAFE and we wanted to say thank…
Nadia Update — Feb. 28, 2011
I’ve been playing phone tag with our trainer, but I caught her for a few minutes this morning and she gave me a quick update on Nadia. Their farm in Stanwood has been buried in 3 feet of snow (and still snowing today! thank goodness we just have rain here now) and their arena frozen but she has been on her once and just walked her around. Nadia is very nervous and skittish, reminding her a lot…
Corona Update Feb 27 2011
I was at NWESC today dropping off our two new horses and took the opportunity to get some updated photos of Corona. He is looking so much better! He has gained a considerable amount of weight already, his feet look much better, and his injury is looking considerably better. His blanket wasn’t fitting well, so I found a better fitting one for him while I was there. Here are some updated…
New Intakes — Feb 27 2011
SAFE has taken in two senior horses (25+) surrendered tonight to King County Animal Control (we were told the mare is 37, the gelding is 33, but Dr. Evergreen thinks they are not quite that old, but definitely over 25). They are currently in SAFE’s care and are being housed at NWESC. This is an open active animal cruelty case, so information is limited. The two horses were taken from a…
Baxter — Pending Adoption!
Cross your hooves that Baxter has a new home! Here he is today with his potential mom-to-be. She does a great job with him!
