HOLIDAY OPEN HOUSE
Come and join us on Saturday December 12, 2009 for our holiday open house. Meet our wonderful sanctuary horses and maybe pick up a gift or two for some horse loving friends. We are also holding a can and bottle drive that day so bring your bags of cans and bottles and help fill our 2 horse trailer. The money raised goes to this years winter hay bill. We are located at 9 Tilford Rd. Argyle, NY 12809
HOLIDAY CARDS FOR RESCUE HORSES
Hello Friends. It is that time of year, again. Where does the time go? It seems like we were just eating lots of treats and stuffing ourselves with holiday goodies last week. I guess when you are busy scrubbing buckets, mucking stalls, and tending to the neglected, unwanted, and abused you lose track of time.
Our rescue, Double L Stable Equine Rescue and Sanctuary has been very busy this year. We have expanded our program working with high functioning handicapped folks, we are looking at starting a program to work with soldiers coming home who need help readjusting, and we have been involved with some serious horse rehab.
We have done several adoptions this year as well as so many other exciting things. Did any of you see our young TB, Willie, featured in The Bloodhorse in February? We have seen several starvation cases over the past year. Many of you will remember the case with the Paragallo horses of Center Brook Farm. Double L was the VERY FIRST PRIVATE RESCUE to go onto the property and walk the entire place with one of the horse's past trainers. We took notes on each and every horse, brought donations of grain and supplements for the shelter handling the case, and of course we brought home a horse. Our wonderful gelding, who we named Isaac (the name means laughter) went through our rehab program and is now a police horse in NW New York. We can only operate and do these things with your help. The economy has hit so many so hard. We are getting more calls then ever to help horses.
Double L Stable Equine Rescue and Sanctuary is again holding our Holiday Cards for Rescue Horses fundraiser. We are asking everyone who can to send a holiday card to our rescue horses here and enclose a single $1 bill. (We are only suggesting $1 but if you wish to include more we won't turn it down!) This fund drive dictates our entire budget set for next year. It will determine how many horses we can help save. Each card will be hung in the barn for visitors to see and make the barn festive for our resident horses. Please pass this on to everyone you can. It works because it is much easier for several people to each do a little then for a few to do a lot. Cross post it to all your chat groups and message boards, print it off and hang it in your favorite tack shop. Any way you can help spread the word it helpful.
Cards can be sent to:
The Horses
Double L Stable Equine Rescue and Sanctuary
9 Tilford Rd.
Argyle, NY 12809
Have a safe and wonderful holiday season.
Shannon
Double L Stable Equine Rescue and Sanctuary
Placement - Rehab - Sanctuary - Retirement
Abuse and Neglect - Slaughterbound - Ex-Racers
www.doublelstableequinerescue.petfinder.org
(518)638-6929
DOUBLE L STABLE EQUINE RESCUE AND SANCTUARY HELPING THE HANDICAPPED PROGRAM
The rescue horses of Double L's sanctuary have found yet another way to contribute to the world. They are now helping the handicapped. Each week a group of high functioning handicapped volunteers come and help out in the barn. They clean, groom, feed, stack hay, and do any other job that needs doing. This group does not ride, just helps. They are building job skill and learning what it might be like to hold a job. A few of our volunteers in the group do have outside jobs already. The horses love the exta attention and the people really blossom around the horses.
Blogging
Come see more about us, our stories, and pictures on a new blogsite!! copy and paste into your browser. www.llstables.blogspot.com
Our Featured Pet...
This month we would like to feature all OTTBs. They are so overlooked as a good mount sometimes. Just because a horse raced does not mean it can't learn to do something else. Many of these horses are sweet and kind and willing to do anything to please their person. With just a little bit of time and training OTTBs can learn to jump, trail, drive, and even game. If you are loking for your next best friend really think about giving an OTTB a new start in life.
News
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We are proud to tell everyone that the National Racing Musuem and Hall of fame in Saratoga Springs has a new exhbit and we are part of it!! Our wonderful Dawn (see starved mare and foal) is part of a display called RIDE ON. Dealing with injury and equine medicine. Come and visit her and the others horses in the musuem starting from July 20, 2008 and running for about 18 months. Check it out at www.racingmuseum.org The display is being shown in the McBean Gallery.
THANKS TO YOU!
We would like to thank the members of the BOCES Horizans program. The kids have been working here each Thurdsay morning to help defray all the farm work and horse care that is needed to be done at the rescue. This group is doing a wonderful job and we can't thank them enough.
We would also like to thank Absorbine,Finish Line, and Vita Flex for sending some gifts to the farm for our rescue horses.
Who We Are
Double L is a sanctuary first and foremost for the equines of the northeast that need a safe place to live.We deal with abuse, neglect, slaughter-bound, ex-racers, and other 'unwanted' or 'at risk' equines. We are a 25 acre 18 stall facility with lots of open pasture for the horses to run. Each horse is provided its own stall for eating and sleeping and staying out of the bad weather. We got our start with the PaSPCA in the 90's in Lancaster co. Pa and then moved the entire barn to the Adirondack region of upstate New York. The move was made to be able to enlarge the sanctuary as well as the retirement portion of the stable. We still will take in rescues for the PSPCA when called on as well as working with local law enforcement. We also work with a few other rescues to broaden the adoption area for their equines. Occassionaly we do auction rescue as well. If you are interested in sponsoring an auction rescue let us know. Any new horse entering the barn is keep in a quarantine situation untill deamed healthy. Visitors are always welcome in the barn but we ask that you try to call ahead.
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT RETIREMENT
The retirement portion of our barn is set aside for privately owned horses that have owners looking to place them in a permenant retirement situation. There is a one time entry gift to the barn and the equine is signed over into permenant sanctuary. The animal will be cared for during the duration of its life as a Double L family member. Each horse will be looked at and considered on its own for entry. The basic guidelines for retirement are a min age of 23 confirmed by vet statement, UTD on shots and teeth, shoes pulled, and in fair health. Each horse has a unique story so please don't be shy about contacting us if your horse is a little young or has a medical issue. I am afraid we can not accomadate stallions. We do have draft stalls available. Each horse can have its own retirement plan to fit its needs. No more ridding. A little excersize. Special feeds. Each plan is taylored to fit the horses (or mules or donkeys!) needs. We currently have 15 horses in living in the sanctuary portion of our operation. Retirement space is limited so please don't delay. The sooner you contact us, the shorter your wait will be.
References available.
HOW WE OPERATE Double L Equine Rescue and Sanctuary is operated totally on gifts and donations. Donations of any kind are always welcome. Supplies such as hay and grain and supplements are wonderful. Don't know what to buy or what is needed most? Cash is always a welcome donation. We can used it where it is needed the most in the barn. No donation is too small. Even a single dollar will buy a salt lick! Check can be made out to Double L Stable Equine Rescue and mailed to -9 Tilford Rd. Argyle, NY 12809.
Adopting a friend
Equines that are available for adoption are adopted into approved homes only and have adoption contracts. They may not be sold, given away, or bred. They may not be moved form the approved home into a new home without the rescue being notified so the new home can be approved. Some of the pasture pal pets are adopted out for little or no fee, but the majority of horses are adopted out for a fee of $500. We will not approve a home with barbed wire fence!
Come Visit Us!
PLEASE CALL AHEAD TO MAKE AN APPOINTMENT FOR A VISIT!
Directions to the farm can be obtained by giving us a call. We love to talk horses! 518 638 6929
or drop us an email at Manemare04@aol.com
Double L Stable Equine Rescue and Sanctuary
