More Of Our Story...

It surprised even me at times how could ride my barefoot gelding, Danny, over the rockiest roads in complete comfort.  Still, others would comment that horses like Danny were special and not every horse could do what he did.  Or that if I rode him on the same trails they did, he would eventually come up lame.  That could be true, but then I would boot him to prevent trail-tenderness from occurring.

As the years passed, more horses came to live with us.  Most came with hoof related ailments.  We took them in, rehabbed their hooves, became attached and kept most of them.  Some horses were re-homed if they didn’t fit in with what was quickly becoming our herd, or if they simply were a better match for owners whose horses were not a good match.

Some horses came to us with behavioral problems that kept routine hoof care from being safely administered.  So we were faced with rehabbing their personality, usually fear issues, before hoofcare could ensue.

My husband and I have been busy feeding, building shelters, training and trimming, in an attempt to accommodate our ever growing herd of lovely horses.

Some are very small, (minis) [picture of Harley]  to our biggest project to date, Spencer. [Picture and link Spencer’s name to his blog spencersnewlife.blogspot.com] and everything in between including donkeys and mules.

Our dream has been to one day build a facility where many horses would come to be rehabbed and either sent home with their owners or re-homed.  It would be a large arena, surrounded by rehab stalls with padded floors, runs off the stalls and many acres set up with several paddock paradise fencing. 

There would be housing so students could come and stay and learn natural horsemanship, and natural hoof care while helping to rehab the horses in need of our care as well as bring their own horses to trim during their stay with us.

Students could begin their own trimming careers and the rehabbed horses could become the productive members of their families, or new families.

It soon became apparent to us that, we may never have that huge facility to offer horses and humans new paths in life.  But we won’t allow that to keep us from helping to make our dream of helping horses and teaching trimmers now. 

With the help of students who take our trimming clinics, donations of volunteer time caring for the horses, as well as sponsorship of our horses, we are making our dream a reality.

Using our small acreage and limited budget we take on one horse at a time.  We can still dream big, but we can help horses now at the Rainier Equine Hoof Recovery Center.