Shiloh Horse Rescue

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Photos!

Just some photos that I took over the past few days.

Good news as Icey Isungur was adopted to a Las Vegas family where he will be spoiled by young horse loving children!

Scrappy, Gummie Saloon...

Melvyn supervises Sally, Felipe and Diego as they remove a panel in Gummie Saloon...

Thanks to Saturday's big work party- here is our new improved and larger Little Vacation Village!

The newly enlarged Gummie Saloon!

New Arrival Yep has her wounds treated in the stock under CityCenter...

We have moved her into the biggest Barn Stall, she was even seen playing around a bit in the outdoor run!

She is getting alot of attention at Shiloh!

Sausage Patti sleeping in one of our pig boxes...

Click here to find out about helping out Shiloh with the purchase of a badly needed Tractor! We are looking for sponsors and we are hoping to raise $5,000.00 in the next two months to help us with the cost of this huge piece of equipmment.

All donations are tax deductible.

Friday, January 6, 2012

Our New Arrival, Yep

Yesterday morning this very sweet mare was found dumped on the side of the road about one mile from Shiloh. Our guys went out with the trailer and picked her up and brought her back to the rescue...

Poor girl. She is very friendly and loves people and attention. We have named her Yep after a Shiloh running joke. It's a cute name for a cute horse...

She spent the day settling into one of our Medical Units...

BUT- here is the condition of her feet. These are her hind hooves. She has three shoes on and a huge painful draining abscess along the coronary band on this one foot and her hoof is deformed and twisting...

Her other hind foot was incredibly overgrown with it's shoe. She was obviously not able to walk very well and was in pain...

Shiloh's farrier, Osvaldo, worked on her today. She was very good for him and stood quietly...

Leo had to help her stay balanced...

Yep tried hard to let Osvaldo help her...

He pulled the shoes off and trimmed as much as he felt she could handle. While she was still uncomfortable, she was standing and walking much better. We have her on Bute, she has a good appetite and she has a deeply bedded area in her stall to encourage her to lay down.

While we feel that we cannot undo the damage that has been done to her by her previous neglect, we will try to get her as comfortable as we can for as long as we can. We will continue to slowly work on her feet and she will be checked out by our vet. We will do what we can to get her to a quality of life level where she can enjoy what time she has left...

For now, we encourage everyone who comes out to Shiloh over the next month or so to spend some time with Yep to show her that she is loved and that she is now safe.

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Don't forget about Shiloh's Spring Rummage Sale! It will be held at a venue in Las Vegas. Save or bring your donated items out to the rescue. We will post more information as we get closer to the Spring...

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Tuesday, January 3, 2012

More Photos...

Don't forget that this coming Saturday is a Shiloh work day- we will be reconfiguring some of our senior areas. We will begin work around 10am (unless we have an unforeseen emergency). Bring lunch and something to share with the group- it's going to be fun- as it always is when we all get together to work on a project.

My flip camera ran out of batteries yesterday at Shiloh so I took the following photos with my iPhone. Enjoy!

Volunteer Bob cleans the Blind Girl's pen...

The Duplex eating breakfast...

Over by the Boarder tack rooms, Willie Nelson eagerly waits for Elaine to bring him his post workout treats...

A shot through the Mare Motel of wandering Pokie Dot...

Cowboy wandered near the Hospice area...

Helga had a lesson on her adopted horse, Hutch...

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Sunday, January 1, 2012

Saturday, January 7th- Work day at Shiloh!

We will be fixing more of our fencing on Saturday, January 7th. We will be reconfiguring The Gummies, Little Vacation Village among other pens.

If you would like to come out and pitch in- we would love to have the extra help!

We will being about 10am.

Bring a lunch and maybe something to share with the group.

Let's make some hard work fun!

See you at Shiloh,

Jill and Sally

Starting Out the New Year Right!

A wonderfully busy weekend with tons of visitors, volunteers and activity. Big thanks to everyone who helped us out on Saturday as we fixed our pasture fencing. The fixed up fence lines look so much better and are so much sturdier!

It was a huge job, but with everyone's help it all got done. We have figured out that if we zig-zag our panels that they are much stronger for the big runs of fencing. It only took us eight years to figure that out but better late than never!

When everyone helps out it makes hard work fun!

The guys pulled out the t-posts with Ed's truck...

The finished fencing- looks great!

The Wanderers stopped to inspect the volunteer's handy work...

Meanwhile...

Jedermann played with Wanderer Latigo...

They had a great time!

I am so happy that Jeder can have this free time (I let him wander freely for a few hours a day) before he starts back to work. It is so good for his mind to just be able to be a horse...