New Holland Auction

Every week truck loads of horses go from local auctions to slaughter. Please help us save them - you make the difference between life and death for them. We have been in continuous operation for over a decade. Rescuing and rehabilitating our beloved equine friends is an incredibly rewarding experience. However, it is also extremely expensive. In 2004, Another Chance 4 Horses assisted nearly 1,000 equines in escaping slaughter and our monthly expenses averaged $3,500.00!!! Intensive care vet bills can be staggering and normal routine costs in rescue work are financially draining. Another Chance 4 Horses is a non-profit 501c(3) incorporation, run by volunteers- we have no paid staff. It is only through your contributions that we can do what we do. Please help them with your tax deductible donation.

We have been in continuous operation for over a decade. Rescuing and rehabilitating our beloved equine friends is an incredibly rewarding experience. However, it is also extremely expensive. In 2004, Another Chance 4 Horses assisted nearly 1,000 equines in escaping slaughter and our monthly expenses averaged $3,500.00!!! Intensive care vet bills can be staggering and normal routine costs in rescue work are financially draining. Another Chance 4 Horses is a non-profit 501c(3) incorporation, run by volunteers- we have no paid staff. It is only through your contributions that we can do what we do. Please help them with your tax deductible donation. Casualties of local auctions located on the "dead pile".

This foal is bleeding from the eye and nose after an injury. After speaking with the SPCA who researched this injury the foal actually was ferril and had been reportedly handled by an unexperienced person resulting in the foal flipping over backwards.

SPCA reported that this is unfortunately a case that is very difficult to prosecute it would be ruled as accidental.

Mare Waiting to Die (Above)...someone please save me- can't you help me. My owner sent me to the auction my leg hurts- it has for a while. The vet looked at my leg and I heard him say good news she could be saved it would take time and work but I could live a good life I heard him say that it was mostly granular tissue and infection. This gorgeous girl came through the ring and the bidding started at $25.00 went back to $10.00 Kris saw the leg and sent her out of the ring - he did talk to the owner who refused to relinquish the mare and the owner ordered the vet to put the horse down - she stood in the back pen waiting to die- she was euthanized the morning of 12-14-04. It didn't have to end this way- it is the owners fault for letting her get this way and for not allowing her to have help.

The story...... We had just gotten a coggins done at the vet this one has an internal lab which means same day service so the foal could start his trek home from PA to CA Rick was making his way to the vet office to retrieve papers and as he cleared the corner he witnessed a big ole draft

horse who had been purchased through auction being beaten along with others by the purchasers- they were attempting to cram him into a trailer he wouldn't fit on. The trailer was already full the small space they wanted him to get into just wouldn't work. They were hitting both the horse - the one that was already stuffed in trying to get him to move over to make room and this ole boy who was trying but just couldn't get in. Rick taking this all in stopped and screamed at the guy to stop- he basically told the guy "I am buying this horse" and did so on the spot. At this point the ole boy was literally being choked by his own halter which had tightened by the pulling and ramming and jamming one of the slip halters they use for horses all the time here. Rick told them that the horse couldn't breathe anymore and to cut the halter off as Rick ran back out to get a new halter and lead an eyewitness I spoke to said that as soon as the halter was cut the ole boy just stumbled away from the trailer swaying and dropped to the ground which is where Rick and I found him upon returning. The vet was summoned immediately examined him and after doing so he announced to us all that he really couldn't find a reason why he was still down we gave him a couple im shots to help revive him - and we all decided to give him time - but we knew - he had given up. People say it is the auction well let me tell you the guy who stands in the ring to age horses, Kris and the people who help load animals and all the kids who worked there rallied to help us get this boy up - this wasn't the auction this was the owner who sent him here. We tried lifting him with a backhoe and a big rubber girth attached - to no avail- he wouldn't even try - he was done, betrayed by human kind he had worked for all his life to get the last couple almighty bucks they could out of him and he knew it. He gave up. We bedded him up and made him comfortable fed him hay scratched his ears and neck visited with him for hours telling him we loved him and that we understood. We were hoping that my some miracle he would find hope and want to live that we could change what he thought about us but he had lost faith and it didn't happen - he was put down this am he just didn't want to live anymore and who can blame him I wouldn't want to load a truck going to slaughter either it has to end. RIP ole boy......

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