K & D Performance and Versatility Training

05/21/2025

Well, some good news towards our fundraiser - Renee has once again stepped up, offering to MATCH the next $1,000! So, if you donate $20, its like donating $40!. If we can do this, it will almost completely pay for the pellet delivery (Im still waiting to hear on the actual date but assume Sacate is going for a Fri or Sat delivery).

05/19/2025

Please donate or share! Even $5 or $10 adds up!

UPDATE:
Many thanks to Patricia R, Vanessa L, Amy C, Schira C., Jan H, for $400 in donations. Added to the $1555, we now have $1955!

Headed out to feed and clean this fine morning. lm sad to report that the weekend didn't move our fundraiser at all. I was truly hoping to get some more donations, so that we start the summer with filled silos (of alfalfa pellets, so important for our elderly population). All would have been bearable if the final expenses of Paige and Maddie hadn't surprised me. But it is what it is. I assume I'll hear from Sacate soon on when they want to deliver, so we may have some time, in case you were thinking to donate to the horses' favorite expense!
www.paypal.me/TheGoldenCarrot, or www.thegoldencarrot.org and click on the Donate/sponsor a horse tab for options
Venmo: -OConnor-01239
mail: TGC, 33175 Temecula Pkwy #917, Temecula CA 92592

This pic shows the intense search for any green sprig of grass! Im starving them .... ok, not, but that's kinda their default setting regarding food. Can NEVER have too much!

05/19/2025

FYI- if you need help, please reach out to Fleet of Angels

05/15/2025

05/14/2025

Please help if you can. Even $5-$10 adds up. I know this Rescue personally. The Golden Carrot.

UPDATE:
Thank you, Lucia H, Catherine L, Linda R, Judith B and Jan H for donating to our silo refill. We’re at $825 now!

Hay, remember when I said I needed to start raising the $$ for another 20 ton silo fill? Well, Sacate contacted me today to see if I could take 8 tons ($5000) next week, so the rest of the truck would have orders for two other people in this area. I need to do this if at all possible - it will mean that I don't have to fill the silos again until probably October. Thus making me much less of a nag during the happy summertime vacations! Can you help us? who can resist Maddie's sweet face, begging?
www.paypal.me/TheGoldenCarrot - or go to our website at www.thegoldencarrot.org and click on Donate/Sponsor a horse where there are choices for a one time donation, or various levels of monthly subscriptions.
Venmo: -OConnor-01239
mail: TGC, 33175 Temecula Pkwy #917, Temecula CA 92592
This is important feed here at TGC. We have a very elderly population, and most if not all of them are missing some teeth. Pelleted feed is easy for them to take in - and there is NO waste, so pound for pound it costs the same was baled hay that they cannot masticate well enough. The pellets I get are alfalfa - pure and clean and full of nutrition. And they Do love them some alfalfa pellets.... I feed bermuda hay for breakfast and day-long munching; some supplements; beet pulp during the summer for hydration and fiber; and some senior feed (composed of a tiny alfalfa pellet and a small extruded grain pellet) for yummies. I keep everyone drinking with salt blocks and some salt sprinkled on their buckets, and those who don't get senior feed get some corn oil/flaxseed/chia added to their buckets. But the alfafa pellet is the basic bread of their diet and very important. If you can help .... it means EVERYTHING to these guys. I thank you - for them and for me.

04/26/2025

🌈 🐾 💔 It is with the heaviest heart that we said goodbye to Shelby last night. It was completely unexpected and there was nothing we could do to help her. We rushed her to our vet at 10:45 last night. She had a mass on her spleen which ruptured and made her bleed into her abdomen loosing all her blood that was supposed to be going through her system. It was so sudden and devastating. She passed away there. Kevin is beyond devastated. 💔please keep my husband in your thoughts and prayers.
❤️Shelby-One Great Dog.
Kevin wanted a dog of his own so we adopted her from the Stephenville TX humane society in Dec 2018. She was the protector of the family and Kevin’s constant companion and shadow. Miss you so much Shelby Girl.

04/25/2025

DON'T FORGET: late applications for the 2025 Thoroughbred Makeover are accepted through June 27 -- and the ASPCA Right Horse Scholarship is available for eligible horses! The scholarship will cover the costs of one stall and first discipline fee (minimum value of $405 per horse) for up to 50 eligible horses competing in the 2025 Thoroughbred Makeover.

Learn more about the ASPCA Right Horse Scholarship: https://bit.ly/4iA160Z

04/21/2025

This cartoon is powerfull to me.
“Thank you” goes both ways. I miss you Guy and I thank you for all the fun and adventures we had in the 15 years we were together. 🌈❤️

03/29/2025

See something- SAY SOMETHING

REPORTING EQUINE NEGLECT IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY
Past KHS success story Peanut is a good reminder that you should not look at a horse’s belly to consider health/condition. Many folks think that if you cannot count every rib or if you don’t see a severely tucked up abdomen that a horse is doing okay, but Peanut here with here with her very sad emaciated topline and very fluffy coat that wasn’t shedding due to a body busy triaging parasite damage wasn’t likely far from being too weak to rise on her own. What you also can’t tell from a photo is that she was a yearling who wasn’t growing and appeared to be the size of a filly half her age, which changed once she was healthy and could do some catching up on growth. She surely would have perished if help came a moment too late. Thanks to alerted authorities she was saved and is still alive and well today. Her recovery was a miraculous transformation.

If you see a horse who doesn’t have enough food, and their body is beginning to waste over the topline please contact your local authorities such as the sheriff’s office and animal control. Check back if nothing is done, and document your correspondence as well as the location and photos of the animal including photos showing any lack of food available and/or lack of water if you can do so safely and from a safe distance. Do not feed the animal, this can actually impede an official’s ability to act in some cases, or could actually harm the horse since refeeding a neglected horse should be done carefully by an experienced professional. If after reporting to local authorities more than once you do not see any progress or action taken please use the info available on the Kentucky Horse Council website to report the neglect to the Office of the State Veterinarian. https://kentuckyhorse.org/Reporting-Equine-Abuse-or-Neglect

As a reminder, Kentucky Humane Society Equine CARE does not have the authority to formally investigate, seize, or intervene in the care of neglected privately owned animals. We can only help when legally allowed to do so through partnership and permission of local and state authorities guided by the laws currently in place. We appreciate any heads up about developing situations so we can offer assistance when possible but your first point of contact should be to the authorities.

03/26/2025

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03/23/2025