Bubbles.....a story to warm your heart!
This was on my Facebook feed today. I belong to a group that rescues horses in kill pens. These are horses waiting to be shipped to slaughter in Mexico or Canada. In Texas, where Bubbles was found, he would have gone to Mexico. Every month I donate a certain amount and then when I have a little extra, I donate that. Every week we have an auction and I donate to that, to help raise funds to buy horses. Since September, we have saved over 500 horses and found homes for them. There are a lot of rescues that rescue horses from kill pens. Becky's Hope is one. They went to the kill pen to pick up some mini donkeys that they had fund raised for, and they met this old horse....who decided this was his chance..............
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BUBBLES!! A story to warm your heart! When we went to bail the mini
donkeys from the kill lot, this skinny, grey gelding walked straight up
to our trailer, past the gates,
disregarding the commands of the kill lot employees. He was intent that
this was his ride out of there. We stood there staring as this old guy
with crumpled ears from frostbite waited patiently for the group of
mini donkeys to catch up so he could jump on the "freedom trailer" out
of there. There was just no way we could leave him behind!
Thanks to your overwhelming generosity, we had just enough money
left over to pay his bail. This sweet, old man won our hearts the
minute he decided it was the perfect time to escape the kill lot. It
seems that he thought nobody would notice him escaping if he simply
mixed in with the mini donkeys!
Bubbles is now safe here at Becky's Hope where he continues to hang out
with his mini donkey cohorts. If you need a gift for the animal lover
in your life...consider giving them the gift of love by sponsoring
Bubbles in their name. He has lots of love to give! #Bubbles
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The group I fund raise with is KPRN Kill Pen Rescue Network. If you would like to donate to help save a horse, paypal to turneremilyb@outlook.com using friends and family option. Every bit goes toward the horse. The adopters pay a fee that helps maintain the sanctuary horses and vet bills for them, etc., but adopters pay the transportation, and any other expenses connected with their horse. By fund raising for the horse, it helps the adopters so they can absorb the expenses that come with getting the horse, like vet bills, quarantine, transportation. When I get a horse, I will go pick it up myself and quarantine it here. That is what I did with my last kill pen horse, Bane. So people can always do that. It can get quite expensive if you aren't able to do that.
Bubbles was saved by Becky's Hope. There is a link to Becky's Hope in the comment following Bubbles' story.
This is the horse we are working on now. A 14 yr old roan mare.
- 9 years ago
Yes, that is Bane. I will never get rid of any of my horses. This is Bane the day after I brought him home from the kill pen in Louisiana. He was sick and it took about a month to get him healthy again. This is him when I brought him home....sick and the other picture is recent. It doesn't show all of him....I need to take some more pictures. He has gained about 300 lb. He has some issues and I may never ride him, but I love him.
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