Willow River Equine Rescue

05/30/2022

Colton and his mom Savanna wanting treats.

05/30/2022

Atlas and Athena eating their beet pulp and alfalfa cubes.

05/26/2022

Colton is one of the easiest going, gentle, and curious boys we’ve met.

05/26/2022

Moonshine: There are parts of being a Rescue that comes with disappointment. Moonshine hasn’t had it easy. She was being sent to the feedlot when he was 5 years old. He was saved by WRER and put into a professional 90-day training program. He was then adopted to a loving family. But like so many people, Covid forced him to be re-homed. We always try our best to help our adopters find good homes when they can no longer take care of their adopted horses. Unfortunately, Moonshine ended up in a bad situation full of neglect. Yesterday we drove 340 miles to repossess and save him from being sold and lost to us forever. He is now back at WRER and we will be assessing his needs and asking for donations to help support him in his next chapter of life.
For more information about Moonshine, keep posted.

05/23/2022

Spa day, thanks to Kimberly Schniegenberg!

05/22/2022

Nala: mutual grooming… ouch!

05/22/2022

Yelena: we’ve finally been able to walk to the round pen with one handler! Starting on some very basic following commands. Nala is always our little helper.

05/22/2022

Lakota was adopted today by Alisa with a donation from Kelle! She met her new sister, Mira and is very excited for her new life!

05/18/2022

Yelena learning to cross-tie and have her hooves picked and rasped. She is still scared, but willing.

05/11/2022

The first time a horse has a saddle, never gets old. Savanna took it like a champ with only a little bronco in her. 

05/11/2022

Savanna had a big day today. First time with a saddle and first time with a person on her back! She did amazing and she will be a quick learner.

04/23/2022

Thank you Horse Plus Humane Society for helping us save Yelena!

04/23/2022

I Was Saved From Slaughter!
Thanks to a generous grant from Horse Plus Humane Society, we were able to rescue Yelena from slaughter! This grant covered the initial rescue cost, but we still need your help with the intake, feeding, and sheltering costs. We cannot thank Horse Plus Humane Society enough for making the rescue of this equine possible, without this grant, she could be on their way to Mexico to be slaughtered.
Willow River Equine Rescue
Hobart, Washington

04/23/2022

Thank you Horse Plus Humane Society for helping us save Nala!

04/23/2022

I Was Saved From Slaughter!
Thanks to a generous grant from Horse Plus Humane Society, we were able to rescue Nala from slaughter! This grant covered the initial rescue cost, but we still need your help with the intake, feeding, and sheltering costs. We cannot thank Horse Plus Humane Society enough for making the rescue of this equine possible, without this grant, she could be on their way to Mexico to be slaughtered.
Willow River Equine Rescue
Hobart, Washington

04/17/2022

Happy Easter!

04/11/2022

Thank you to our volunteers today! Because of you we got more of our shelters completed, more plywood painted, lumber sorted, and the ugly wood pile cleaned up or at least a dent in it…

Every little bit of help is huge and we appreciate all of it! We truly cannot do this without the help of our volunteers and donations to make this happen.

Angie Hortman
Kimberly Schniegenberg
Joanna Jensen
Chey Warren
Raeli Korzeniecki

04/10/2022

Assistance Required❗️

Please welcome the two newest members of WRER! After saving these two Yakima reservation mustangs, we assessed their ages as coming yearling and coming 2. We will name them and have updates.

In the meantime, we are out of funds and these girl need help!

We will continue to gentle them but they need to be looked over by a veterinarian and the older one needs a visit with the farrier.

Please help them by considering donating to our rescue. We do all we can to help save these beautiful creatures, but we can’t do it without your support! 

04/09/2022

Project update!

Need to paint the other missing 3 sheets of plywood and mount them but it’s coming together nicely! Thank you to our volunteers that have helped us on this project. We can officially say we are 1/4 of the way done…

04/09/2022

SAVED!

Tomorrow we pick these two up. Both of these horses were rounded up over in Yakima and brought over to our local auction. Today we were able to save both of them.  Now both of these Mares will have bright futures ahead of them.

We would have loved to save more but getting these two is already pushing it for us. The reality of it is we are not set up to take on more horses currently. We are in need of donations and assistance getting our facility set up for more horses.

With your donations we could buy one piece of plywood at $70.
The roofing alone for the shelters will cost us about $1000.
We also are in need of stall mats whether you have some you would like to donate or if you would like to help us purchase new those are also $40 each.

At this time we need all the help we can get. Every little bit goes such a long ways for these gentle souls.

We have ways of donating via Venmo or PayPal and even Facebook donate. If you would like to drop off cash directly at the rescue that is also welcome. Total price to get these two horses today is roughly $360.

 We still have sweatshirts available for purchase, they are $45 each. We only have a few sizes left! Adult sizes are Small - 2XL and Youth are Small - XL.

Saving horses takes a community and we are forever grateful for every single one of you that has helped us along the way!

04/05/2022

DONATIONS NEEDED!

We just purchased all of our wood and 7 more concrete tubes for the heavy use area. This is a very expensive load of wood and has depleted our funds.

We would be extremely great full for your donation to help raise more money as we still need to buy the roofing for the shelter.

There’s a huge possibility we will be picking up a few more horses THIS SATURDAY from a auction.

04/02/2022

EXTRA EXTRA! 🗞📰

For the first time ever we are offering sweatshirts for purchase!

We are figuring out all the details yet but we are hoping to get a count on how many of our followers would be interested in a hoodie. Please comment how many you may want as well as size and Color.

All sweatshirts will come with our logos on them as pictured! We also have two Color options, grey or black.

All proceeds go to this years hay supply which will cost $7200!

04/02/2022

These pretty faces decided to watch over all the work on the new heavy use area today. Still working hard to complete this project.

03/31/2022

March 30th 2022.

DAILY FARM PHOTOS!

Here are a few photos from Willow River Equine Rescue. Featuring Colton, Poppy, River, Lakota, Atlas, savannah, and Sphinx.

03/30/2022

Recycling the compost for spring gardening! Never have we seen so many worms.

03/26/2022

Colton had a wonderful day! He was wonderful working out and desensitization session. Then a spa bath and first treats!

03/25/2022

Colton was finally castrated yesterday. He did great! While he was under anesthesia, Lacie was able to trim his feet and we got half the manure balls out of his coat. Today is the first day of his recovery. 15 mins of round pen trotting, per the Veterinarians instructions. He is smart and willing and will make a fantastic horse for anyone willing to put in the time and love. 

03/14/2022

AmazonSmile: You shop. Amazon gives.

ANNOUNCEMENT‼️‼️

We have created an Amazon smile account, for those of you that would like another option to donate to our cause.

We have a Wish List created for items that would benefit the horses! Also, any purchase you make Amazon will donate a percentage to the rescue. Attached is the link to our account.

https://smile.amazon.com/hz/charitylist/ls/1JXFCA77MQNJ8/ref=smi_ext_lnk_lcl_cl

AmazonSmile Charity Lists is a meaningful way for you to shop and donate items directly to Willow River Equine Rescue. Simply explore their Charity Lists, add items to your cart, and check out – it's that easy.

03/13/2022

Everyone meet Whiskey. She came to us a few years ago and needed tons of hoof care. She was broke to ride and shortly after, adopted to a great family! Kat and Whiskey make a fantastic team! Together they have accomplished several milestones and grown together. We could not have asked for a better home or opportunity for this sweet mare! Thank you Shawna Hammill for choosing Willow River Equine Rescue and giving Whiskey a forever home.

03/10/2022

Watch this reel by demaquisdesigns on Instagram

Thank you to our wonderful friend Jennica for making this video of Savanna and Colton’s journey.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Ca8KTnwFwLf/?utm_medium=copy_link

Patrick Watson • The Great Escape

03/08/2022

A wonderful and symbiotic collaboration.