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Texas Parks and Wildlife Horses Arrive Safely at Habitat for Horses

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update by Jerry Finch ~ founder/president of Habitat for Horses

Big Bend Horses Escape Slaughter Thanks to HfH

Big Bend Horses fared better than first group sent to slaughter several weeks ago ~ photo courtesy of Habitat for Horses

After a negotiated agreement was reached last week with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, two of our folks took off to Big Bend State Park, just a few miles north of Presidio, Texas. Fifteen hours later they pulled up to the main building and checked in, met a great bunch of very helpful folks, slept in the bunkhouse, had a big breakfast, loaded the horses and headed home, 700 miles away.

The horses and crew spent the night at the local fairgrounds in Sonora, Texas to give them a chance to rest. They left at 4am, arrived back at the ranch about 1 this afternoon. All five of the horses are in excellent health with a body score of between 4-5. Two of them are not halter broken and pretty wild, the other three are perfect.

While there is an obvious disagreement about the method used to dispose of the first eleven horses, I’m very thankful that these five are safe and will continue to live productive lives. The officials in Austin made the decision to turn these horses over to Habitat for Horses rather than try to make a few bucks off them with a killer-buyer, which rates as a win for them, for us and mainly for the horses.

Our two guys that made the trip, Thom and Kevin, both deserve a well needed rest and a thank you. That was a long, hot trip, but made all the better by the folks both at the Park and in Austin.

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  1. Thanks for the rescue. Prayers for the souls of the “ill fated first group of horses and burrows.” The animals do have feelings; souls. Surely, they deserve to be treated with dignity and respect. May there be no more sent to slaughter!!

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  2. A very Huge Thank You to kevin and Thom !!!!!!!!!!There are many beautiful people out there they are two of them……………………I am sure that awesome things are headed there way for that truly warm and wonderful giving of themselves for such a wonderful ending for the Equines ……And if those horses could talk they would thank them also, to save all that we can is Beautiful , Human kindness in the Highest form !!!!!! Thanks to all involved with this !!!!!!! To give of ones self unselfiously is divine…………………………..

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  4. Thanks to everyone involved. A similar approach is being discussed with another state (can’t divulge just yet) and I have good feelings it will happen. With this case setting precedence how could it not?

    Thanks again,

    Steve

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  6. Kevin and Thom, God Bless you and all that arranged for the saving of these five horses’ lives. I wish the first eleven could have received the same, but let’s hope that no more of these horses will end up like the first eleven. May one day soon, we see the end of trailering our horses across borders, the killer buyers will be hounded to death for their occupation, and that auctions will only sell horses to good homes with substantial backup paperwork to ensure the horses future care and safety. And, may the end of the BLM be forthcoming soon, or we will not have all these beautiful creatures to show the next generations of their beauty and intelligence. And, thank you Habitat for Humanity, for all you do for these wonderful “God’s creations” that were given to us to protect and care for.

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  7. Nice work and thank you to everyone who chose life for these horses. I have hope that as these successful interactions occur, they will become the norm.

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