Ultimate Act of Compassion

The calls come to us almost daily:
“We have a horse we can’t afford to care for any longer…”
“We can’t find anyone to take in our horse now that we are losing our property…”
“I don’t want my horse to end up at slaughter or in the wrong hands…”
“Please, help …”
The calls keep coming, more and more on a daily basis, and for many different reasons.

Humane Options Available

Horse owners who can no longer care for their horses have a few humane options:
• Sell the horse to a responsible, private owner
• Free Lease the horse to another horse enthusiast
• Donate the horse to a program that uses horses
• Relinquish the horse to a horse rescue or sanctuary
• Humane euthanasia

Like many other rescues throughout the U.S., Horse Haven tries our best to help when we can. But for us to remain focused on our main mission, which is housing horses from abuse and neglect cases in Tennessee, we can not take in every horse needing a home.

Because there are too many horses and not enough homes or funding, we find ourselves asking what is going to happen to those horses? Will they be neglected? Abandoned? Abused? Sent off to slaughter, or just allowed to slowly starve in their field?

We have been thinking long and hard about this, and have decided to follow in the footsteps of other Equine Rescues across the U.S. with a Euthanasia Program.

From Wikipedia the term Euthanasia (from the Greek eu = good + thanatos = death) refers to the practice of ending a life in a painless manner.
Euthanasia means “good death” peaceful and calm.

With your donations HHT can assist Equine Owners financially and emotionally with the Ultimate Act of Compassion Program. It takes approx. $250 to provide this service per horse and keep them from starvation and out of the slaughterhouse.

Each horse that is accepted into this program will be evaluated by our staff  for its condition of life and adoptability. If the equine has a good quality of life, and we have the room at our facility, we will try and bring it into our adoption program. The Ultimate Act of Compassion Program is offered to responsible owners who have run out of options to humanely care for their equine and have decided to have them humanely put down.
If you are an owner needing assistance through this program, send us an email below for more information, and to see if funding is available.

We are currently accepting pledges for our Ultimate Act of Compassion Program. As more funding becomes available we are able to take work with more owners in need, providing compassion and support during this time of need. Approved applications will be on a case by case interview. Click on the button below to donate to this program.

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