It takes more than good intentions to successfully save a horse from slaughter! Horse rescues are not exempt from good business management. Feed, hay, time, money, and space are all resources that have to be managed wisely in order to do the most good for the greatest number of horses. Copper Horse Crusade pioneered a method of saving slaughter bound horses sustainably.
Copper Horse Crusade focuses on saving slaughter bound horses that are sound, sane, and serviceable. Horses that have successfully been through the CHC program have found vocations ranging from therapy horses to search and rescue horses. Good training is critical to helping horses find homes. “A broke horse is a placed horse.”
In 2018 Copper Horse Crusade partnered with the Right Horse Initiative (www.therighthorse.org) and the ASPCA to help promote the placement of horses in transition. Grant funds allowed CHC to develop a transitional training program to give at risk horses the skills and training they need to find the best possible placement and a forever home. A horse’s best life insurance policy is the training they receive.
Organizations like the Right Horse Initiative are helping spark an industry wide change in the way horses in transition are perceived. The goal of Right Horse is, “to massively increase the number of successful horse adoptions in the United States by working together to reframe the adoption conversation and shatter the stigmas surrounding horses in transition.”
There is often a misconception that if a horse ends up at a kill sale or surrendered it’s a bad horse. A “rescue horse” is thought to be old, lame or otherwise not serviceable. While that may be true in some instances, Copper Horse Crusade is able to demonstrate the quality of horse that routinely slips through the cracks and heads to slaughter. Pairing a good minded, good quality horse with good training results in many good matches of horse and rider.
If you are looking for your next equine partner, consider adopting. Copper Horse Crusade currently has a number of horses in their retraining program and one of them could be your horse of a lifetime. For more information on Copper Horse Crusade and how you can help, donate or adopt visit http://www.copperhorsecrusade.com/. You can also visit them on Facebook to learn more about their success stories at https://www.facebook.com/CopperHorseCrusade/
Organizations like the Right Horse Initiative are helping spark an industry wide change in the way horses in transition are perceived. The goal of Right Horse is, “to massively increase the number of successful horse adoptions in the United States by working together to reframe the adoption conversation and shatter the stigmas surrounding horses in transition.”
There is often a misconception that if a horse ends up at a kill sale or surrendered it’s a bad horse. A “rescue horse” is thought to be old, lame or otherwise not serviceable. While that may be true in some instances, Copper Horse Crusade is able to demonstrate the quality of horse that routinely slips through the cracks and heads to slaughter.