05/25/2026
UPDATE- Just after I wrote this post we received an offer of a $2500 match!!!!
If we can raise $2500 this generous donor will match it penny for penny! That would cover the total amount we are trying to raise. Please share, like donate, whatever you can do to help us out 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
As of this morning Charlie still has not passed any manure.
I am beside myself. If you don’t know Charlie’s story it seems like this is the perfect time to tell it to you.
I used to foster horses for another rescue. After the loss of a very special horse I questioned my place in this “rescue world”. I stepped back and took a hard look at how I wanted to proceed. I could care for a horse but had no clue about the ins and outs, the small details of saving lives.
In Nov of 2020 I decided to pull 2 horses to learn the ropes. I choose 2 Belgians from a direct ship kill pen. This guy bought horses simply to ship to Canada for slaughter. If you know this world your know Rotz pen. They were scheduled to ship on a Saturday morning. To their death. I had them picked up Friday night. I got a call from the shipper that there was one more spot on the trailer and there was a Percheron mare that needed help. She hopped on too.
Charlie was my first introduction to a detached horse. He stood in the run in, ate his hay, came out for grain, went back to the shed. He was complacent. Did what I asked. He was a robot.
His travel mates were adopted. He had to have an enucleation( eye removal) so he was going to stay a little longer. Once healed he was actually up for adoption. He had an interested party but something didn’t sit well with me. It wasn’t so much them, I just felt this pull to let him blossom, to give him a chance to be him. That if I let him go know it would break him.
He stayed. It was just me and him, we didn’t have a team yet. We grew together. It took 6 months for him to greet me at the gate and he’s been doing it ever since.
I have watched him grow from a disconnected shell to the friendliest, kindest, most willing companion you will ever meet. 3 eye surgeries, multiple scopes for his Arytenoid Chondrites, countless vet visits and still he is the perfect patient.
He trusts and loves so hard. He welcomes every face that walks through these doors. He is a giant yet shrinks to every child that reaches their small arms up to hug him. Old, young, experienced, novice, special needs…it doesn’t matter he senses them and their needs and meets them where they are. He is a staple here. I trust him with every visitor. He is a true attestation to what we do here.
And yes there is a selfish piece to this. Charlie has saved my life 10x over. I can genuinely say that if it wasn’t for him I don’t know if I would have made it through last year. He has gotten me through a divorce, major surgery, and horrible days when I questioned my purpose. These horses we save steady my mind, give me peace, but he grounds my soul. I swear he speaks to me. Listen hard enough and he’ll speak to you too.
I beg you to please help us. I hate to beg, for our herd I will, and for him I will sell that soul he saved.
Please consider helping us cover this past weeks medical bills.
For those of you who are not aware of what is happening please take a peek at our page. Charlie is in the hospital d/t impaction colic.
We are trying to raise $6000.00 to cover this weeks medical bills.
Overnight you guys raised $1300.00, THANK YOU, so our new goal is $4700.00. I have applied for a medical emergency grant in case he needs surgery. But that’s a step I will have to consider as it financially affects the rest of the herd. We’re not there at this moment and I’m praying we don’t get there.
Pleas consider a tax deductible donation 🙏🏻
Current donation platforms-
Venmo- last 4 are 5599
Zeffy-
https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/donation-form/2f557835-6212-4489-8475-fecf40140526
Cash/check-
Second Chance Stables
262 Loop Rd
Savoy MA 01256
PayPal- fee charged they no longer have a donation platform
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Last 4 are 5599
Thank you in advance ❤️
