Red Bucket Equine Rescue

Red Bucket Equine Rescue Our Mission: To save and rehabilitate horses, restore their trust in humankind and find them safe, loving and permanent adoptive homes.
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For more information, please go to our website at http://www.redbucketrescue.org/ or call 310-466-6223.

07/03/2026

Adopting a rescue horse is not about color, markings, or the horse you imagined in your mind.

It is about trust.
It is about connection.
It is about finding the horse who is truly the right match for your family, and making sure that horse has the safety, support, and forever they deserve.

At Red Bucket, we believe the relationship begins long before anyone gets in the saddle. It begins on the ground, in quiet moments, in grooming, in patience, in listening, and in learning who that horse really is.

A successful adoption is a partnership - between the horse, the adopter, and the rescue. It takes time, honesty, veterinary care, multiple rides, and a strong safety net so that no horse is ever left without support again.

Because adoption should never be rushed.
It should be built on trust.

And when the match is right, it changes everything.

Have you adopted a horse from a rescue?
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Shop with Purpose & Help the Horses:)Wear Your Heart for the Horses ❤️The Red Bucket Equine Rescue online store is open,...
07/01/2026

Shop with Purpose & Help the Horses:)

Wear Your Heart for the Horses ❤️

The Red Bucket Equine Rescue online store is open, and every purchase helps support the horses we love and serve.

From beautiful apparel to meaningful Red Bucket gear, each item is more than something to wear - it is a way to stand with rescued horses, share their stories, and help provide the safety, care, enrichment, and love they deserve.

Every purchase makes a difference. Every shirt, hat, or gift helps support the lives of horses who have been given a second chance at Red Bucket.

Shop with purpose. Wear it with love. Help the horses.

From the bottom of our hearts, we are grateful.We have been overwhelmed by the hundreds of comments, messages, and praye...
06/30/2026

From the bottom of our hearts, we are grateful.

We have been overwhelmed by the hundreds of comments, messages, and prayers for the horses rescued from the riverbed encampment. Your kindness has meant so much to us, and even more to the horses whose lives have now been forever changed.

Hope, Faith, and Charity came to us from a heartbreaking and dangerous situation. They were hungry, vulnerable, and left without the care every horse deserves. But today, their story is no longer defined by what they endured.

Today, they are safe.

They are healed.

And most beautifully, Hope, Faith, and Charity now have the promise of forever homes.

These photos are a glimpse of what love, safety, and second chances can do. Their eyes are softer. Their bodies are recovering. Their spirits are beginning to exhale.

Thank you for caring about them. Thank you for standing with Red Bucket. And thank you for being part of their journey from suffering to safety.

Hope. Faith. Charity.
Their names say everything.

06/25/2026

How Long Does It Take to Feel Safe?

Healing does not happen on a schedule.

For some horses, safety arrives like a deep breath.... the moment they realize the food will come, the hands are gentle, and the fear can finally begin to leave their body.

For others, that exhale takes months. Sometimes years.

At Red Bucket, we never ask a horse to heal faster than their heart is ready. We offer breakfast, lunch, dinner, kindness, consistency, soft voices, safe hands, and time.

Because every horse arrives with a different story. A different wound. A different reason to be guarded.

And then one day, in their own way, they tell us:
I’m okay now.

Sometimes it’s lying down for the first time.
Sometimes it’s walking toward a person instead of away.
Sometimes it’s a soft eye, a quiet breath… or a very confident search for cookies in Susan’s pocket.

That is what rescue looks like.
Not just saving a body..... but earning back a soul’s trust.

Left Behind in the RiverbedSeveral of these beautiful horses were rescued from a dilapidated unhoused camp in a riverbed...
06/24/2026

Left Behind in the Riverbed

Several of these beautiful horses were rescued from a dilapidated unhoused camp in a riverbed - starving, without water, tied to trees, and left alone in unimaginable conditions.

It was a dangerous, heartbreaking scene. But Susan Peirce and the Red Bucket volunteers went in anyway. They risked their own safety because these horses had no one else. They saw suffering, fear, and abandonment - and answered with courage, compassion, and action.

Because of Red Bucket Equine rescue, these horses were not forgotten in that riverbed. They were given food, water, medical care, safety, and the dignity of being seen as the precious lives they are.

Rescue is not always pretty. It is not always safe. But for the horses who are waiting, it is everything.

Today, they have a second chance. And that second chance exists because people cared enough to show up.

06/23/2026

Did You Know?
A horse’s eye may be the window to the soul… and at Red Bucket, we have seen what happens when that soul finally feels safe.

So many arrive with eyes that carry fear, confusion, grief, and the weight of everything they have survived. But with time, patience, kindness, and the quiet promise that they will never be failed again… something changes.

The eye softens.

The worry begins to leave. The guarded look fades. Trust returns, little by little. And in that softness, we see healing. We see forgiveness. We see a horse beginning to believe that humans can be gentle, that the world can be kind, and that this place is home.

At Red Bucket, safety is not just shelter. It is peace in the body, comfort in the herd, and the beautiful moment when a horse’s eye tells us…
“I know I’m safe now.”

06/20/2026

What Does Happiness Mean?????

For a Red Bucket horse, happiness is simple… safety, friends, full bellies, soft hands, and the freedom to finally exhale.

It’s the quiet joy of being seen, protected, and loved — not for what they can do, but for who they are. At Red Bucket, happiness means every horse gets to know they matter. ❤️

06/18/2026

Autonomous Sensory Mini Response 🐴✨

Please enjoy today’s tiny serving of barnyard therapy: the soft, happy sounds of one of our beloved geriatric minis enjoying her special meal.

Like many senior horses, her teeth need a little extra care, so our team prepares food made just for her — soft, safe, nourishing, and easy to eat. Because at Red Bucket, every horse is treated as the individual they are, with dignity, patience, and all the love they deserve.

Turn the sound up for the sweetest little crunches, munches, and mini-horse magic.

You would be helping us tremendously if you would please comment and share:)

Sometimes healing sounds like this. ❤️

The Faces of Red Bucket.Over the past 15 years, Red Bucket Equine Rescue has opened its gates, its heart, and its arms t...
06/16/2026

The Faces of Red Bucket.

Over the past 15 years, Red Bucket Equine Rescue has opened its gates, its heart, and its arms to horses who had nowhere else to go.

Some arrived frightened. Some arrived broken. Some arrived unseen, unwanted, or forgotten. But each one came with a face, a story, a spirit, and a life that mattered.

This new series honors the faces of the horses Red Bucket has saved — the gentle eyes, the soft muzzles, the scars, the trust rebuilt, and the quiet courage it takes to begin again.

Every face you see here is a reminder of what rescue means.

It means safety.
It means dignity.
It means love.
It means a second chance.

These are the faces of survival.
These are the faces of healing.
These are the faces of Red Bucket. ❤️

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Today, my heart is overflowing with gratitude for every volunteer who has ever stood beside Red Bucket Equine Rescue.Ove...
06/13/2026

Today, my heart is overflowing with gratitude for every volunteer who has ever stood beside Red Bucket Equine Rescue.

Over the years, you have given your time, your hands, your hearts, your weekends, your holidays, your sweat, and sometimes your tears. You have mucked stalls, filled water buckets, groomed frightened horses, walked beside the broken ones, loved the lonely ones, and helped us give safety, dignity, and hope to horses who had lost everything.

Rescue does not happen because of one person. It happens because a community of compassionate people chooses to show up - again and again - even when the work is hard, even when the stories are heartbreaking, even when there is no applause.

To every volunteer who has helped us save a life, comfort a horse, heal a wound, clean a stall, make a call, carry a bucket, or simply offer kindness when it was needed most… thank you.

You are part of every second chance.
You are part of every healed heart.
You are part of every horse who is safe today.

From all of us at Red Bucket, and from every horse whose life you have touched, we are endlessly grateful. ❤️.

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2885 English Road
Chino Hills, CA
91709

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