Mission Statement
Pregnant Mare Rescue is a temporary horse sanctuary committed to rescuing pregnant mares and orphan foals from abuse, advocating for the humane treatment of all horses through education while enriching the human experience. Pregnant Mare Rescue is a Global Federation of Animal Sanctuaries verified, 501(c)3 certified nonprofit.
What is going on at PMR?
We have been contacted by the County Planning Dept. and Animal Services for a possible violation of the number of horses on property. We have been negotiating to lease larger more commercial space since Oct. 2018. Trespassers helped themselves up our asphalt driveway and then took pictures. Made claims and allegations of abuse, and neglect. Animal Control paid a visit, said all these claims are false.
It was also reported that because the manure is not mucked, there is possible contamination to the well (the water table). This is also false as we muck twice a day, and have the manure hauled away at least monthly.(I have the receipts to prove it.) The county was extremely gracious as I explained how we have been TRYING to negotiate and move to more suitable, commercial area to run the organization. The only substantiated claim is the number of horses on the property, and that is being addressed.
PGE removed over 100 trees, all 120 feet tall in 2017. They dismantled the entire rescue, and took 15 mos. to complete their work. It was the daily occurance of bucket trucks, dump trucks, transfer trucks, trailers with bobcats and backhoes up and down the driveway.
However, it has been suggested that it is my volunteers who have ruined the road, due to traffic.
What will Happen to PMR?
We are concentrating on getting these horses into safe GOOD homes, then we will address the issue of a new home.
Will All the horses have to leave PMR?
Of course not. Contrary to some opinion, this parcel is zoned rural ag. and horses are allowed.
Where Does PMR want to relocate?
We have always loved this county, and certainly the love and support we have received over the years from the community. We prefer to stay in Santa Cruz County but would consider if necessary, moving out of the county. It is simply getting too costly to have substantial acreage in Santa Cruz County. Unless the land or ranch was donated, or leased at an extremely affordable rate, it feels unlikely that the rescue will remain here.
If you understand the horrific treatment horses suffer when sent to slaughter, then you can appreciate how difficult a task it is to save these lives. In almost 14 years there are over 360 horses that have enjoyed or are still enjoying life as a result of our efforts. Our horses here are with their families, safe, well fed, have shelter and access to fresh water. It is simply unfortunate that some folks just don't care.
It was also reported that because the manure is not mucked, there is possible contamination to the well (the water table). This is also false as we muck twice a day, and have the manure hauled away at least monthly.(I have the receipts to prove it.) The county was extremely gracious as I explained how we have been TRYING to negotiate and move to more suitable, commercial area to run the organization. The only substantiated claim is the number of horses on the property, and that is being addressed.
PGE removed over 100 trees, all 120 feet tall in 2017. They dismantled the entire rescue, and took 15 mos. to complete their work. It was the daily occurance of bucket trucks, dump trucks, transfer trucks, trailers with bobcats and backhoes up and down the driveway.
However, it has been suggested that it is my volunteers who have ruined the road, due to traffic.
What will Happen to PMR?
We are concentrating on getting these horses into safe GOOD homes, then we will address the issue of a new home.
Will All the horses have to leave PMR?
Of course not. Contrary to some opinion, this parcel is zoned rural ag. and horses are allowed.
Where Does PMR want to relocate?
We have always loved this county, and certainly the love and support we have received over the years from the community. We prefer to stay in Santa Cruz County but would consider if necessary, moving out of the county. It is simply getting too costly to have substantial acreage in Santa Cruz County. Unless the land or ranch was donated, or leased at an extremely affordable rate, it feels unlikely that the rescue will remain here.
If you understand the horrific treatment horses suffer when sent to slaughter, then you can appreciate how difficult a task it is to save these lives. In almost 14 years there are over 360 horses that have enjoyed or are still enjoying life as a result of our efforts. Our horses here are with their families, safe, well fed, have shelter and access to fresh water. It is simply unfortunate that some folks just don't care.
IN OUR NEWS! 2/10/2019 SUNDAY
Devils Garden Update
The mares are being transposted under the good care of Matt Armstrong. Will provide updates and pictures as they arrive. There are still mares in need and as funds are raised and homes vetted on this end, we will hopefully be helping more.
2/13/2019 WED. Mares are pictured below. I have checked out ( vetted) and chosen homes. The first , our red roan is going to a town 100 miles south of Alturas. The second, the black mare is going to Salinas. The last two are going into a home together. It's a sanctuary in the high desert of the southern Calif.foothills. They are safe , pregnant and settling in:)
Devils Garden Update
The mares are being transposted under the good care of Matt Armstrong. Will provide updates and pictures as they arrive. There are still mares in need and as funds are raised and homes vetted on this end, we will hopefully be helping more.
2/13/2019 WED. Mares are pictured below. I have checked out ( vetted) and chosen homes. The first , our red roan is going to a town 100 miles south of Alturas. The second, the black mare is going to Salinas. The last two are going into a home together. It's a sanctuary in the high desert of the southern Calif.foothills. They are safe , pregnant and settling in:)
For being wild and coming off a free open range, both new owners state these mares are sweet, and follow them around wanting attention.
Friday Feb.15th. 2019
The first question I am often asked is where do the horses come from? Who needs rescue? One source is our Wild Mustangs living in California, Nevada and Utah.
The following information is pulled from The American Wild Horse Campaign website. The link is below. They also post to facebook and their work can be followed there.
americanwildhorsecampaign.org/
Congress Passes Spending Bill for Department of Interior In what might be considered a Valentine’s Day miracle, the House passed a spending package last night which included funding for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the Department of the Interior, completing Congressional action to avert a government shutdown with barely a day to spare. So what does this mean for wild horses and burros? .
Earlier in the day, the Senate passed the $333 billion fiscal 2019 package by an 83-16 vote. President Trump has indicated that he will sign the measure into law before Friday at midnight when funding for multiple federal agencies runs out once again.
Passage of the spending bill, in which funding for the BLM’s Wild Horse and Burro Program was included, came after a four-and-a-half month delay completing fiscal 2019 appropriations. The program was allocated $80.5 million, roughly $5 million more than in 2018. AWHC and other wild horse advocates achieved several significant victories in the legislation, once again ensuring riders that prohibit slaughter of healthy horses and sale for commercial use were included, as well as stopping a provision in the original House version that funded a program of mass surgical sterilization of wild horses and which sought to create single-sex, non-reproducing herds—the very opposite of wild, free-roaming mustangs.
AWHC’s position that the plan was profoundly inhumane and contrary to the Wild Free-Roaming Horse and Burro Act’s intent to preserve the wild nature of mustangs on the western range was shared by champions in the Senate like Chairman Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Ranking Member Tom Udall (D-NM), and Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA) who helped remove the House language. Our team worked all year to ensure congressional support to remove the provision and we’re grateful that our allies in the House and Senate that ultimately agreed with our stance. In this year's bill, however, Congress continues to consider the western range “over-populated” with wild horses and requested BLM report back with a strategy to control mustang populations by, "researching and developing appropriate, humane protocols for fertility control methods, including sterilization,” within 180 days. While we have and will continue to support fertility control methods like PZP, we cannot accept any program that included sterilization of the type BLM has proposed for wild horses on the range.
The fight against BLM’s on-going plans to institute a cruel, ineffective, dangerous and wildly expensive program of wild horse surgical sterilization will be the focus of our work on Capitol Hill over the next several months as they continue work on the 2020 funding bills. We will also be working to ensure BLM makes a bona fide effort to utilize PZP, which they have yet to do in more than a token manner; and address the BLM’s unscientifically low population limits imposed on mustang and burro herds so that the majority of forage in designated habitat areas can be given away to privately owned livestock. We can only continue to achieve these victories over well-funded special interests with your grassroots activism and energy—each call you make to Congress, each email, does more than $1000s of astroturf spending by those who would remove every wild horse from the range for their personal benefit.
The first question I am often asked is where do the horses come from? Who needs rescue? One source is our Wild Mustangs living in California, Nevada and Utah.
The following information is pulled from The American Wild Horse Campaign website. The link is below. They also post to facebook and their work can be followed there.
americanwildhorsecampaign.org/
Congress Passes Spending Bill for Department of Interior In what might be considered a Valentine’s Day miracle, the House passed a spending package last night which included funding for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the Department of the Interior, completing Congressional action to avert a government shutdown with barely a day to spare. So what does this mean for wild horses and burros? .
Earlier in the day, the Senate passed the $333 billion fiscal 2019 package by an 83-16 vote. President Trump has indicated that he will sign the measure into law before Friday at midnight when funding for multiple federal agencies runs out once again.
Passage of the spending bill, in which funding for the BLM’s Wild Horse and Burro Program was included, came after a four-and-a-half month delay completing fiscal 2019 appropriations. The program was allocated $80.5 million, roughly $5 million more than in 2018. AWHC and other wild horse advocates achieved several significant victories in the legislation, once again ensuring riders that prohibit slaughter of healthy horses and sale for commercial use were included, as well as stopping a provision in the original House version that funded a program of mass surgical sterilization of wild horses and which sought to create single-sex, non-reproducing herds—the very opposite of wild, free-roaming mustangs.
AWHC’s position that the plan was profoundly inhumane and contrary to the Wild Free-Roaming Horse and Burro Act’s intent to preserve the wild nature of mustangs on the western range was shared by champions in the Senate like Chairman Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Ranking Member Tom Udall (D-NM), and Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA) who helped remove the House language. Our team worked all year to ensure congressional support to remove the provision and we’re grateful that our allies in the House and Senate that ultimately agreed with our stance. In this year's bill, however, Congress continues to consider the western range “over-populated” with wild horses and requested BLM report back with a strategy to control mustang populations by, "researching and developing appropriate, humane protocols for fertility control methods, including sterilization,” within 180 days. While we have and will continue to support fertility control methods like PZP, we cannot accept any program that included sterilization of the type BLM has proposed for wild horses on the range.
The fight against BLM’s on-going plans to institute a cruel, ineffective, dangerous and wildly expensive program of wild horse surgical sterilization will be the focus of our work on Capitol Hill over the next several months as they continue work on the 2020 funding bills. We will also be working to ensure BLM makes a bona fide effort to utilize PZP, which they have yet to do in more than a token manner; and address the BLM’s unscientifically low population limits imposed on mustang and burro herds so that the majority of forage in designated habitat areas can be given away to privately owned livestock. We can only continue to achieve these victories over well-funded special interests with your grassroots activism and energy—each call you make to Congress, each email, does more than $1000s of astroturf spending by those who would remove every wild horse from the range for their personal benefit.
Pine Nut Roundup Continues in Nevada
Full story
americanwildhorsecampaign.org/media/get-report-pine-nut-mountains-wild-horse-roundup-2019
americanwildhorsecampaign.org/media/get-report-pine-nut-mountains-wild-horse-roundup-2019
Books!
The final editing piece on 'The Love Of Horse" is nearly complete.
Rescuing Horses; A stunning reveal of what horses are truly capable of, and an honest look at their mistreatment all over the world. Due out June 2019!
Rescuing Horses; A stunning reveal of what horses are truly capable of, and an honest look at their mistreatment all over the world. Due out June 2019!
The Children's books are also coming along.
I am attaching an illustration for you to enjoy. First book, 'Angel's New Family' is due to be released March 2019. Stay tuned!
I am attaching an illustration for you to enjoy. First book, 'Angel's New Family' is due to be released March 2019. Stay tuned!
We are preparing to publish the first in a series of ten books adressing tough issues children sometimes face. The inspiration to write these stories comes directly from our rescues. In over 13 years working primarily as a horse rescue, specializing in pregnant mares and orphaned foals, we have also saved the lives of dogs, cats, squirrels, guinea pigs, donkeys and rabbits.
All of these animals have experienced either grief, death of a loved one, violence, abandonment, abuse, neglect, fear, emotional trauma, family loss and all of them would not be her if we had not saved their lives.
Based on the real experiences of our rescues, the stories send a message of love, forgiveness, and the possibility of hope.
Horses can mirror and respond to human behavior. Being herding animals, they rely on an acute stream of sensory data to sense safety or danger; they can also hear the human heartbeat within four feet, and research on heart-rate variability indicates that horses have a profound ability to synchronize their own heartbeat with that of human beings.
When people are introduced to the herd environment for therapy, horses respond within the same spectrum of physical and emotional responses that govern their own behavior. The Pregnant Mare Rescue brought in a reading specialist, an equine therapy clinician and psychologist to critique, advise and comment as we created our stories.
Our observation is that every animal has the capacity to provide healing messages of hope and we have witnessed their remarkable behavior.
Why write the books?
~Because it shares important information for adults to understand the healing gifts animals can bring to a circumstance.
~Because if you are not able to visit us in person, we bring the miracles to you.
~Because we believe every child, just as every animal deserves to be respected, loved and appreciated.
All of these animals have experienced either grief, death of a loved one, violence, abandonment, abuse, neglect, fear, emotional trauma, family loss and all of them would not be her if we had not saved their lives.
Based on the real experiences of our rescues, the stories send a message of love, forgiveness, and the possibility of hope.
Horses can mirror and respond to human behavior. Being herding animals, they rely on an acute stream of sensory data to sense safety or danger; they can also hear the human heartbeat within four feet, and research on heart-rate variability indicates that horses have a profound ability to synchronize their own heartbeat with that of human beings.
When people are introduced to the herd environment for therapy, horses respond within the same spectrum of physical and emotional responses that govern their own behavior. The Pregnant Mare Rescue brought in a reading specialist, an equine therapy clinician and psychologist to critique, advise and comment as we created our stories.
Our observation is that every animal has the capacity to provide healing messages of hope and we have witnessed their remarkable behavior.
Why write the books?
~Because it shares important information for adults to understand the healing gifts animals can bring to a circumstance.
~Because if you are not able to visit us in person, we bring the miracles to you.
~Because we believe every child, just as every animal deserves to be respected, loved and appreciated.
We are thrilled to announce we have located a pasture to lease while we continue our search for our parcel to own. Please check out the remaining pages on our site.
Lots of info to share!
A donated /purchased or leased piece of land would fullfill critical objectives for the Pregnant Mare Rescue Foundation.
~The expansion of our Share & Care program relies on additional space.
~Land secures a legacy moving into the future, insuring the organization lasts well beyond the founders lifetime.
~Land also fullfills the last piece required for full Accredation with the Global Federation of Animal Sancturies (GFAS).
~Aquisition of land provides a permanent home for the horses selected to work in our Share & Care Program.
~The expansion of our Share & Care program relies on additional space.
~Land secures a legacy moving into the future, insuring the organization lasts well beyond the founders lifetime.
~Land also fullfills the last piece required for full Accredation with the Global Federation of Animal Sancturies (GFAS).
~Aquisition of land provides a permanent home for the horses selected to work in our Share & Care Program.
