Healing Hearts, Hooves and Paws

10/12/2026

The girls have arrived. Could not be sweeter. 💕

10/11/2026

The girls are on back on the road this morning after a restful evening! This pic is from this morning before they loaded up!

10/11/2026

The girls are halfway through their journey and resting in Ohio and will get back on the road tomorrow morning. 

Each transporter on the seven legs of the transport said they were absolutely perfect passengers and the sweetest things.💕


10/10/2026

80 degrees in October feels like a good day to hose off the collection of fly masks and fly boots the horses have been whipping around and off their bodies in the pastures and lots. 😂

10/10/2026

Rescue can be a lot of things - first line of defense to keep animals WITH their owners or keeping them out of the pipeline or shelter system or the last option for complicated or special needs animals.

Today, two deserving complex Beagle girls are on their way to their third chapter after their home has experienced challenging life circumstances.

Aspen and Vicky are currently on their way from VA to Illinois, overnighting along the way. I'd like to share their stories and if THESE stories don't pull hard on your heart strings, you need to assess your ❤️!!

We first heard about Aspen. A 5 year old lemon beagle with IVDD. She had surgery (twice, the second time to clean out remaining material per the surgeon)and regained full mobility of her rear legs but needs help expressing her bladder daily. Whew. That's a tall order for most of the dog world. But her only other option was euthanasia and the seemed awfully unfair when she had fought and beat most of her challenges. And is only five.

As we were coordinating transport, the owner asked if taking Vicky was an option. Vicky is HARDER! Vicky is a 9 year old Beagle born in a research lab(Envigo) and released when she was two. So she's been safe and adopted for seven years(and the girls have been together for five years). But she carries the trauma from the years in the lab. She is debarked and has PICA, the girl will chew anything and everything. We had to research PICA.

These two should be the definition of special needs rescue in the dictionary. And as a bonded pair? Multiple rescues had turned them down individually. But their owner cared enough to take on a special needs research lab beagle and provide the surgery for Aspen to help give her the best outcome possible. Sometimes life presents challenges that change everything you know and these girls could no longer be appropriately supported.

Welcome Aspen and Vicky. 💕Aspen is on three meds and we will need to get a neuro consult within thirty days to confirm continued rehab options.

10/09/2026

Share with all the rescuers you know and Love 

Join A Home For Every Horse on October 13 for a Rescue Wellness Call focused on compassion fatigue, how to recognize the signs in ourselves and our teams, understand its impact, and find ways to support one another.​

​Because caring for the people doing the work is part of caring for the animals who depend on them.​

​📅 October 13​
⏰ 11 AM MT​
💻 Free Zoom call​

Join us: ​bit.ly/4729EKz

10/09/2026

We haven't had any takers so unless we hear something by noon today, we will cancel this volunteer opportunity tomorrow . 😬

10/07/2026

We could use some help on the farm and thought we'd put it out there.

We'd love to do a volunteer day on Saturday. It's kind of short notice but Chris was waiting to hear the final schedule on a rescue transport she's helping with.. and the weather is going to be PERFECT!💕@

We always have regular farm chores to be done BUT we'd love some help to accomplish the following:
- finish painting the barn!!! It's the never ending project. 😵‍💫 we can have as many brushes and rollers as there are volunteers!!
- anybody handy and want to put together a 6 ft x8 ft metal storage shed from a box?🤞🏼this is well beyond Chris' skills 😂
- long shot but if anyone could haul their zero turn -better yet commercial zero turn- mower over to cut the grass. The motor seized on ours and we can either pay $7-10k for a new one or buy hay rounds for winter...can't do both so hay wins!
-we might have some shutters (for the barn) to put together and paint as well

We have other building projects that need to be done before winter (fence line hay feeders) so hit us up if you're game to build stuff but can't make it this weekend. 🙏🏼

9-11am arrival if barn chores are your jam. Noon for the project work.

We'll feed everyone about 3pm! Maybe get a fire going!?

Shoot us a pm if you're able to join us!! Visit with the ponies and baby goats! And our favorite work crew - Koda and Dakota! ❤️

10/05/2026

Dream of a kinder world tonight as you sleep 💕

09/28/2026

Our goats have a 30'x120' pen with a four stall barn for overnight and bad weather days. The babies have been kept in there during the day up until today because they were sooooo small. Today they spent a few hours out with the herd exploring the property.

Lots of yelling ensued. 😳The babies yelled if the other babies were too far away from them. The babies yelled if their mamas were too far away from them. The mamas yelled if babies that weren't theirs were too close to them. It was a loud couple hours. 

A little more each day. Hopefully less yelling everyday.