Quick Update on Grandma

Posted by thomenda7xx on Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Grandma is doing so well in just two week. She has 100 times more energy and is now queen of my paddocks. She is so adorable and is putting on weight so well for an old girl. She has the most amazing personality and thinks that trotting beside me while walking to the stables will get her there quicker even tho im still walking. She is a real character.

On arrival


Two days after arriving

Two weeks after arriving

Two weeks after arriving
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Can You Help??

Posted by thomenda7xx

We are desperately in need of a few items, if you can help please email or call me. Thank you so much for your support.

1. We are needing summer cotton ripstop rug's and combo's. We use all sizes but are low on sizes 5'9 through to 6'3. The most common size we use is 6'0 and 6'3, if you can help please let me know.

2. Halters. We send all of our horses to their new homes with there halter and are always needing new ones ~ All sizes. At the moment we are short on Full and Cob sizes. Massive thank you to Jasmine Toth who donated 15 halters in April 2010.

3. White electric fence tape and star picket insulators.

Thank you so much and if you can help please email or call me

Amanda Vella
saveahorseqld@yahoo.com.au
0405053740
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Gracie Arrives Home

Posted by thomenda7xx on Sunday, August 29, 2010

Gracie was rescued in Coff's Harbour as well. We rescued her just in time as she was waiting to be loaded onto the dogger truck. She is a 19 year old TB mare, used and abused by the racing industry. We have full stables at the moment with 9 horses but Louise Tozeland's Abused Horses Retreat will be looking after her for a while.

A massive thank you to everyone involved in the Coff's Harbour rescue. You were all wonderful, both Gracie and Apollo are now safe. :-)
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Apollo Arrives Home

Posted by thomenda7xx

Apollo is a surrender from Coff's Harbour. He was bought from the Grafton dogger sale on the 28th of May 2010, but his owner couldnt look after him and surrendered him to us. He is a 5 year old, 15hh OTT TB gelding. We will be assessing his temperment and having a vet and chiro look over him before adopting him out. If you're interested please keep an eye out in the "horses for adoption" section of this site.




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Secret Rescue Mission ~ Complete

Posted by thomenda7xx

The Story of Dolly/Angel/Zoria:

The mare was purchased from the Casino Sales by a local knackery dealer. A dodgy dealer disguised as a horse rescue then posted everywhere that she needed donations to save this mare. It was a big scam. One of my very loyal supports sadly believed this dealer and donated the whole amount. ...Within hours of this mare being so called “rescued” she was on the market as a beginner’s horse for a larger amount of money. This dealer called me saying she needed the mare sold for that larger amount to cover costs, and that the loyal supporter needed to be repaid of her money which was not true. This woman was lying!!Anyway, this dealer couldn’t sell the mare so she returned her to the dogger pen. A week later the mare was with another dealer, only this time they said that the mare belonged to the dogger still and only had a week to be sold otherwise she would be slaughtered. This dealer did however have the mare on her property and she was running with a herd of horses including a stallion. So the advertisements read: Mare owned by dogger must be sold or will be killed. Has one week, but is in season and running with a stallion. This mare could be in foal..... WHO THE HELL DOES THIS??? It’s going to be killed so let’s put her in foal..... Anyway, she was advertised as very quite when in fact she isn’t VERY quite. She was advertised as a beginner’s horse and you guessed it, she isn’t suitable for a beginner. However, this mare wasn’t taken back to the dogger; she was sold to a young family as a beginner’s horse!!!

Ok, now this beginner gets the horse home and finds out she is def. NOT suitable for a beginner. The horse scares her and today she advertised that it will be dogged on Monday if not sold on the weekend. She tried many times to call the dealer she bought the horse off and not once did this lady call her back. The dealer even deleted the owner of the mare off her facebook page. This very dealer also calls herself a horse rescue; however, this is one story and living proof that she is nothing but a dodgy dealer.


Rescuing horses isn’t just about buying them from the slaughter houses; it’s about getting them better, letting them heal their mind, body and soul before finding them the perfect forever home.Today, with the very special help from the secret mission team (you know who you are) we finally rescued this mare. She will now rest with me for a while until she is 100% healthy. I will scan her to see if she is with foal and ill re-home her to a suitable home. We have re-named her Zoria which is a goddess of beauty. She has a new name, a new life and this is the end of a very sad story and the beginning of a new happy chapter in this horse’s life...











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