Bluebonnet Equine Humane Society

Bluebonnet Equine Humane Society A non-profit equine welfare organization dedicated to helping starved, abused, abandoned and estray

Bluebonnet Equine Humane Society is a nonprofit rescue organization and equine welfare community. We rescue, rehabilitate, retrain, and rehome horses from neglect and abuse cases, horses who have been abandoned, and horses whose owners can no longer keep them. Fueled by a growing community of owners, caretakers, and equine-related specialists, we offer owner assistance programs that help owners ca

re for, and keep, their horses. We also assist with disaster relief efforts and provide educational opportunities to improve the quality of horse care in Texas and beyond.

“A holistic approach to equine care not only improves the health of the horse but also enhances the emotional bond between the animal and its caretaker.”
Dr. John J. Krai, a veterinary behaviorist

“Strong, informed communities are essential for advancing ethical standards and fostering a culture of care within the equine industry.”
The Equine Welfare Alliance

Our community uniquely provides a vital network of empathy, understanding, and encouragement fundamental to fostering a sustainable and joyful relationship with horses and other equines. It has been well documented that when we immerse ourselves in a community that nurtures our interests, we do not merely pursue our goals; we excel in them. And we become more resilient, more dedicated, and ultimately, more successful. Our community is not merely a network of rescuers, horse owners, or equine enthusiasts but instead a sanctuary of compassion, a center of knowledge, and a beacon of holistic support for both horses and their caretakers.

Please welcome Jeremiah Bowen back to the Training Challenge. The Bowen family has made the Training Challenge a family...
07/23/2025

Please welcome Jeremiah Bowen back to the Training Challenge. The Bowen family has made the Training Challenge a family event - Jeremiah, Megan, and two of their children have competed in previous Training Challenges and this year Jeremiah has been joined by his daughter Chloe. The Bowen family have also been dedicated Bluebonnet volunteers, picking up horses for us whenever needed, fostering, and volunteering in a number of ways.

Jeremiah and Megan run SpiritHorse Horsemanship School in Castroville Texas. You can learn more about them at https://www.facebook.com/sh.trainrideshow.

Jeremiah says, "Horses have been a part of my life for as long as I can remember, and over the years I’ve gone from wrangling colts to helping people build lasting partnerships with their horses. I believe in training with purpose, patience, and a whole lot of grit. My style is grounded in principle-based horsemanship—earning trust, setting boundaries, and always laying down a solid foundation that both horse and rider can stand on. Whether I’m working a green-broke rescue or helping a student find their seat, I’m in it for the long game. Around here, we don’t just ride—we raise up horses and people who know how to lead with confidence, compassion, and a touch of cowboy grit."

This year, Jeremiah is working with Saffire, a 12 year old, 14.2 hh, Quarter Horse mare (unregistered). When Saffire arrived at Bluebonnet in 2023, she was not halter broke. Since she's been halter trained and has had a bit of under saddle work, but she had had six months off when she went to Jeremiah and a lot of fear, so he's had his work cut out for him. You can follow their progress at https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100093315468822

Please welcome CTG Horse, LLC to the Bluebonnet Horse Expo & Rescue Horse Training Challenge - this will be their first ...
07/23/2025

Please welcome CTG Horse, LLC to the Bluebonnet Horse Expo & Rescue Horse Training Challenge - this will be their first year as a vendor! They have a mobile app for horse document management and sales. You can learn more at https://ctghorse.com/

We still have plenty of space in the vendor hall, so you can join CTG Horse, Inc. as a vendor for the October 4th Bluebonnet Horse Expo in Taylor, Texas. More information is available at https://bluebonnethorseexpo.com/blog/vendors/

07/23/2025

Take a quick ride with Bluebonnet Rescue Horse Training Challenge horse Noah and his Challenge partner Fiona. They're preparing now for the Challenge competition in October!

We would like to welcome Kelly Jefferson, of Kelly's Equine Services, back to the Bluebonnet Horse Expo as a vendor agai...
07/22/2025

We would like to welcome Kelly Jefferson, of Kelly's Equine Services, back to the Bluebonnet Horse Expo as a vendor again this year. Kelly is an equine bodyworker who offers different modalities and also offers clinics for owners. Check her out at https://kellysequineservices.com/ and be sure to stop by and see her in the vendor hall on October 4th in Taylor, Texas.

We've still far from filling the vendor hall, so if you have an equine service or product or offer jewelry, art work, or home decor with a horse/farm/ranch theme, please join us at the Expo. There's more info at https://bluebonnethorseexpo.com/blog/vendors/

We have a lot of great participants in the Challenge this year, and it is my delightful job to get to introduce you to t...
07/22/2025

We have a lot of great participants in the Challenge this year, and it is my delightful job to get to introduce you to these amazing people (in no particular order!).

Today's the first introduce: Fiona Sartin. Fiona is new to the Training Challenge this year, and she jumped in and offered to take a horse who was having some major behavioral problems.

Fiona owns Curtis Place Performance Horses (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61562962958217 #) in Smiley Texas. She started training ponies when she was about eight years old and started training full size horses when she was twelve, and she's been doing it ever since then! Fiona specializes in Barrel Racing but she's old have done English events, team penning, many rodeo events, western pleasure, showmanship, and much more!

Fiona says, "This will be my first Horse Training Challenge with Bluebonnet and my first ever Horse Training Challenge. I chose Bluebonnet Equine Humane Society because I believe they are truly helping these horses that deserve a second chance and would love to help!"

Fiona's Challenge partner is Noah. He's an eight year old, 13.2 hh, grade pony gelding. He came to Bluebonnet when he was just two years old, and he was adopted by a previous Training Challenge trainer. He was returned to Bluebonnet earlier this year because he had developed a nasty bucking habit. Fiona has worked through it, but he's not going to be a kids or beginners horse as he is the kind of horse who needs consistent riding and is smart enough to take advantage of a beginner. But he's a cool guy who is very athletic and has great potential for the right rider.

You can follow Fiona and Noah at https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61575941193897

Thank you to Barbara Dietzel for sposorsing the Lauren Kay Sutton Memorial Stick Horse Show at the Bluebonnet Horse Expo...
07/22/2025

Thank you to Barbara Dietzel for sposorsing the Lauren Kay Sutton Memorial Stick Horse Show at the Bluebonnet Horse Expo. The stick horse show is a fun competition for kids at the Expo, and it is held in memory of Barbara's granddaughter.

Henry here taking over the Bluebonnet accounts. Who is Henry you ask? Why, it is me the most handsome and most sweet ma...
07/21/2025

Henry here taking over the Bluebonnet accounts. Who is Henry you ask? Why, it is me the most handsome and most sweet mammoth donkey you'll ever meet. Really. Just ask my caretakers, really they're my staff. Seeing to all my needs.

I may be spoiled and pampered now, but it wasn't always so. Years ago, I and my herdmates were starving. We were owned by a guy who owned a feed store, but he never fed us. Can you believe it?!

Fortunately, law enforcement and Bluebonnet stepped in, saved us, rehabilitated us, and I landed with an amazing home in the Texas hill country.

I may be living the good life now, but I never forget my fellow donkeys and horses who aren't as lucky as me. So I brayed and harassed my caretakers, and they decided to set up a matching sponsorship for the Bluebonnet Horse Expo to help raise funds for more horses and donkeys who are in a bad spot.

So, the next $10,000 in sponsorships and donations will be matched by the Bob and Sarah Kee Giving Fund. In order to qualify, you'll need to go over to https://bluebonnethorseexpo.com/blog/sponsors/ and either become a sponsor (my preference) or a donor (donations help, too).

The the Bob and Sarah Kee Giving Fund will match those sponsorships and donations. Cool, huh? I've got some pretty awesome caretakers. And they're smart enough to know they should listen to me, Henry!

Frosty showed up a month ago today from a neglect case. He's a 24 year old, BLM mustang - his brand is hard to read, bu...
07/17/2025

Frosty showed up a month ago today from a neglect case. He's a 24 year old, BLM mustang - his brand is hard to read, but we got his date and it looks like he came from NM. We don't know his history, other than he was starving when he came to us.

The first two pictures were from this morning, the middle one is about a week or so ago, and the first two are the day he arrived.

One of the reasons we take intake photos is because it can be hard to see the small changes in weight. This guy, though, has started to run over this croup. His weight is also starting to fill in from the top of his backbone to the top of his ribs. His coat is already much shinier and healthier.

In the past month, I've learned a few things about him. First, no one has told him his age. He's jumped out of his stall once after finishing dinner (and a second time he jumped out but didn't quite make it). I now have him come into a stall to eat but don't shut the door so he can leave when he's ready.

He likes attention. I'll be in the pasture and turn around to find him right behind me, checking out what I'm doing.

Someone spent some time training him. He leads pretty well - he can get a little crowdy, but we're fixing that. He stands tied. He even seems to know how to lunge.

He may be 24, but he's boss man. He comes into the barn to eat first, and that isn't up for discussion. My horses are not too fond of that behavior, but they also don't stand in his way.

He does equally well with both mares and geldings, and he doesn't mind the pony or donkey who are in a pen next to the barn.

He's going to make someone a nice horse once we get his weight up. We may even discover he's broke to ride - who knows.

The last thing I know - saving him wouldn't be possible without you. This amazing community of supporters is what keeps us going on the long, hard days and makes sure we have the funds we need to say yes when we're called.

Thank you.

Yesterday, we had a members meeting at the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum in College Station. In addition ...
07/13/2025

Yesterday, we had a members meeting at the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum in College Station. In addition to sharing a lot of education and having great discussions about Bluebonnet and how we can serve more horses, attendees for to tour the museum. If you haven't been, you should go. There is an awesome exhibit on music in the US though the centuries.

As part of our work in Bluebonnet, both our Fostering Coordinator and I end up counseling a lot of people about euthanas...
07/10/2025

As part of our work in Bluebonnet, both our Fostering Coordinator and I end up counseling a lot of people about euthanasia decisions for their horses. It is a hard decision to make, and so many people struggle with it. I want you to know that there’s no shame if you:
• Euthanize your horse because you cannot keep spending mostly on costly treatment.
• Euthanize your horse because the cost of initial treatment, for example colic surgery, is beyond your means.
• Schedule your horse’s euthanasia around your vet’s availability. For example, I scheduled my personal horse, who had several health problems, to be euthanized before my vet left on a trip. I did not want her to crash while my vet was gone and leave me scrambling to get her help.
• Decide to euthanize an older horse or horse with health challenges rather than move them.
• Euthanize two horses at once because one horse needed euthanasia and the other horse would be lost without him/her.
• Euthanize a horse because of dangerous behavioral problems that you cannot reasonably fix.

There will always be people willing to question or second-guess your decision to euthanize your horse – we face it here a lot. “Why didn’t you try this?” or “XYZ treatment worked for me.” Or (my favorite): “Just take out a loan to get that colic surgery.”

Euthanasia decisions are personal. They’re ones you make with input from your vet, although we’re happy to help counselor when people ask for our help – ultimately the vet will have to sign off on your decision, though, so after talking to us we recommend you discuss with your vet.

If your horse is very old, ill, injured, lame, or has dangerous behavioral problems, it is better to discuss euthanasia with your vet rather than ask someone, including a rescue, to take them. People will lie to you that they’re willing to take on your horse with those problems only to turn around and dump them at auctions (it happens too often). Rescues are full and often struggle to handle the neglect cases who need them.

Putting your old, ill, injured, lame, or dangerous horse down at home, where they’re comfortable, in surroundings that are familiar, with the people who love them nearby is hard, but it is true compassion and love for your horse. It is so much more stressful for your horse to travel someplace new, have to learn new routines, have to integrate into a new herd, and get used to new people, only to soon after be euthanized (or worse).

Euthanasia decisions are kind.

Euthanasia decisions are compassionate.

Euthanasia decisions come from a place of love.

I always say this is the cutest division of the Bluebonnet Rescue Horse Training Challenge. And no offense to our marve...
07/10/2025

I always say this is the cutest division of the Bluebonnet Rescue Horse Training Challenge. And no offense to our marvelous adults and teens in the other divisions, but... the In Hand 12 and under division truly is!

Give these amazing kids and their horses (and donkey) a follow and see how much they accomplish together.

Amarillo and Pyper Davis - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100094183008859
Butters and Meghan Cory - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100094302312865
Debbie and Gabby Davis - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61567775440519
General Cooper Paddington and Lilliana Villarreal - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100094183008859
Little Eddie and Layna Schroeder - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61576835152270
Prince Caspian and Emma Reinhardt - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61577866716002
Princess Fiona and Ella Isenberger - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100093704408235Sunchaser and Connor Barass - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61561113204300

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