Let's each of us put in our 2 cents and help keep another horse alive for as long as we can.
 
Pennies from Heaven
2009 campaign
 Pick them up off the ground heads or tails they are all good luck for the horses, check the car and trucks seats and floors, in the couch and under the chairs.  Check that drawer where we dump everything.  Send them into us in a cup; in a plastic bag. We have a team of angels here ready to roll them for you.  Your 2 cents means a lot to us.
 
As the New Year begins.

 
We never know where life will take each of us each New Year.  As each of us are counting pennies to keep afloat.  We are scared and unsure where we will end up.  Which bill do we not pay so we can eat and keep a roof over our heads and food on our tables? 
 
The Rescue and its horses are also in the same boat.  With 25 horses counting on us to make sure they each get what they need to stay alive it becomes harder each day. 
 
Think about this for a moment with 1 healthy horse it cost us 19.78 for its 2 bags a feed a month along with 30 bales of hay (1 each day) at a cost of 165.00 (5.50 a bale) This one horse cost RVHR $184.78 a month. 
 
Not one person can do it alone.  We are afraid that we will soon be faced with the dilemma of who lives and who dies.  Not because of overcrowding but because of the shortage of money to feed each of them.  Do we give up and put down Blaze the 40 year old

 

to keep the 3 year old Frank alive? 

How can anyone one person be asked to make that decision of life or death? To be asked to choose one over the other as if one is better than another.
 
But with hard times come hard decisions!  Ones we will be facing here every day as we see the number of unwanted horses grow. The horses that family's counting those pennies can no longer care for.  The family who just this past year, took in those extra two horses because they were listed in the paper for free.  Thinking we have all this extra grass growing.  These families are now turning to facilities like ours to take the horses because they realized they can't afford the feed, the hoofcare, and the vet care that those free horses needed either.
 
So here we are, another year beginning, but this one is different than our last 6, this year we see a lot of changes coming.  Up until this year we have worked hard to keep our euthanizing of horses to those horses whose bodies could no longer function without pain, or the horse that was too dangerous to be placed with a new family.  Now the decision is much more difficult.
 
  So if while counting your pennies, you see you have a few to spare send them in. We are going to need them to continue helping the horses.