HELPING HEARTS EQUINE RESCUE, Inc

Our Goals~

(1) Accept into our program equines in need;
(2) Assist in the placement of equines under the care of private owners who can no longer maintain them;
(3) Provide necessary management, veterinary and farrier care for those equines under our protection;
(4) Rehabilitate and adopt out equines to suitable homes as sporthorse prospects, pleasure riding prospects or as retirement/companion animals.
(5) Obtain sponsorships for those equines who maintain a permanent residency within the auspices of our organization;
(6) To provide all animals under our care with a comfortable and dignified existence without pain or suffering. If and when physical and medical circumstances no longer allow that comfortable life; to let them go gently and kindly with a humane veterinary-assisted euthanasia.

We are a hands-on organization, working directly in the equine community,. We have a strong, active presence on social media as well as maintaining an up to date website. Helping Hearts attends a number of area events each year to spread the word about horse slaughter, rescue, and responsible horse ownership.
While we can't intake every equine that needs rehoming, we work directly with owners needing to rehome their horses, networking their animals and providing basic contracts they can use to help them assure their animals a safe future.

While we're a small organization, we are lucky to have capable individiuals and strong support.
Helping Hearts intakes the needier animals, the ones most likely to be overlooked.
Horses that are not easily handled, animals with physical issues such as loss of vision, severe health and lameness issues, extreme age, and advanced pregnancies that can't travel far. We fundraise and work to cover the care costs to bring these animals back to a level of normalcy, put in the training to make them an assett to someone and find correct and proper homes for them. Animals who who cannot find new homes due to advanced age or disabilities stay with us for life as permanent residents.

2022 marks Helping Hearts Equine Rescue’s 14th Anniversary. During these years, 265+ horses, ponies, mules, donkeys (& 1 Zonkey!!) have arrived to safety, security, rehabilitation and love at Helping Hearts. HHER began with a desire to provide a soft landing to senior cast-offs and while we take in any that are in need, the seniors have always been our focus. Currently half of our residents are over the age of 30 - giving them Super-Seniors status. They will spend the remainder of their lives with us. The younger “kids” have physical/medical issues that make them “unadoptable” and also most likely have a home for life with us. We maintain an average of 10 Sanctuary residents with a couple of rotating spots for those who will most likely be adoptable upon completion of their rehabilitation.

Helping Hearts isn’t a big rescue, we can’t responsibly take in large numbers of animals, but I like to think we are Small and Mighty. Strong community support is greatly appreciated and is so crucial in enabling us to provide care and comfort to each of our rescues and gives us the ability to continue to bring those in need into our program.

In addition to our direct in-house rescue activities, we help network horses for owners needing to re-home their horses and help potential horse owners find appropriate animals for their needs, even if we don't have a rescue horse that fits their parameters. We are able to help place many horses directly before they need intake into rescues or before going to auction.