Community Equine Outreach of Eastern Washington

06/26/2025

We are SO excited and happy to announce that today is Gotcha Day for Spirit! He's been with us for a year, getting cared for, loved, trained, and today was his day. He has deserved this wonderful partner all along and we can't wait to see what adventures they have together. Many, many blessings and good wishes to you both!! ❤️




Photo credit to Daykota Marie at Desert Lens Photos . Beautiful work capturing a beautiful moment in time. ❤️

06/23/2025

✨There’s something about the sound of quiet chewing in the stillness.
🐎The way a horse just stands there — not trying to fix you, just being with you.
✨And suddenly, the weight you’ve been carrying doesn’t feel quite so heavy.

No one asks you to explain yourself.
No one hurries you along.
You’re just allowed to be — messy, tired, joyful, anxious, human.

The barn doesn’t care if you cried on the way there.
It welcomes you anyway.
And the horses?
They listen with their whole heart.

It’s not therapy.
But it’s a kind of medicine.
The kind that reaches places words can’t always touch💕

🧡🐴

06/17/2025

Chance, now Charlie, living his best life as a retired pasture puff. According to his Mama, he is happy, peaceful, content, and "fat as a fritter. He loves her (granddaughter) and she loves him. She calls him her nay nay."

06/13/2025

Member Penny? She was adopted by a wonderful family a few years back. We love getting updates of this sweet girl as much as they love her!

06/11/2025

Remember Churro? He's spending the summer in the Tetons. What a gorgeous place He's doing fantastic with his new family, and we're thrilled with the home they provide.

06/11/2025

I want to apologize for not getting back to everyone who has sent a message, called, or emailed us. I'm slowly working through them. Know how much you reaching out means, the lack of response is not reflective of that. Thank you so much for your care, concern, shares, comments, and messages. An update will be forthcoming!

06/04/2025

If you're seeing this post, could you interact in some way? A 🐎, or a ❤️, a share or a comment...it will all work. An appeal for assistance with our hay bill was posted last week, and we've received zero response. Like ZERO help. So, maybe no one is seeing us since we've gotten quiet recently?

An update on our status... Stella, Nemo, Spirit, and Star remain unsupported except for the Stark family paychecks. Spirit is being fostered by someone we're hoping will adopt, she's just working out details. Star is unsupported but will likely live out her remaining days here on the Stark dime. She is rideable and in great shape though so maybe someone would like to sponsor her retirement or would like to offer her pasture pal status? (She's not the nicest to others at feeding time). Nemo is maturing and on hilly pasture for development, learning from the best alpha mare ever, how to be a horse. Prognosis for becoming a sound riding horse is guarded but we're hopeful. Stella is well, just Stella. Crazy wild, scared out of her skin by humans. No funds came for training, so her future is here. It would be great to have funds for training, or sponsorship to live out her days. Everyone was wormed 2 weeks ago, Stella with a feed through ($$!). It's funny, but not funny, that Ivermectin used to cost $4.99 a tube and now it's 3x that much or more.

I personally pay for someone to come by and feed in the mornings M-F. We're down to about a weeks worth of feed.

Just putting the information out there, and praying for some attention. 😁 (the positive kind only, please)

Our Paypal:

https://paypal.me/CEOEW?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US

Our Venmo:

05/29/2025

Speaking of manure, thank you Aly Marie and Kaleb for coming and spending an ENTIRE day working!

05/28/2025

Would you like to help us pay our hay bill? We are still here, still working with the horses, working on adoptions, shoveling manure, spraying weeds. While we arent taking in additional horses, we do still have to feed the ones that are still in our program! We could use some help.
Paypal: [email protected]
Venmo:
Checks/cash:5581 Langford Road, Mesa WA 99343

Your donations may be tax deductible based upon IRS laws.

05/28/2025

Proud to call WHOA friend. ❤️

The lingering effects of trauma in horses is real.
Trauma leaves deep scars. For horses like Noel, these scars aren’t just on the outside—they linger in the heart, mind, and body.
Noel was found alone in the mountains, abandoned in the freezing wilderness. She was starving, trembling, and desperate for help. her rescue advocate described how she approached them, pleading for food.
When the effort to rescue Noel took place she was haltered and loaded into a trailer in the pitch dark on a snowy mountain road, she wasn’t wild or feral. The next few days as she stayed over in foster until it was safe to trailer over the pass to the sanctuary she showed she was scared to be touched, even the gentlest touch sent waves of fear through her body. She became wide eyed and rigid like a statue, she would flinch, and move away, as if the world had only ever hurt her.
It’s been six months, and only now has she begun to allow her legs to be gently touched—just enough to finally trim her hooves. Six months of slow, quiet work. Of respecting her boundaries. Of showing her that hands can bring comfort, not pain.
This is the reality of trauma in horses. It’s not something that can be "fixed" overnight. There’s no shortcut to trust. It takes patience, compassion, and time—sometimes months, sometimes years—to help a horse unlearn their fear and remember that they are safe.
Noel’s journey is far from over, but every tiny step forward is a testament to her resilience and the power of gentle, trauma-informed care. She—and so many others like her—remind us why we do what we do.
To all who support our efforts to give horses like Noel the time and love they deserve—thank you. Your kindness saves lives.

05/28/2025

This speaks to me.
Laura

🐎 When the body can’t keep up, but the heart is still in the saddle…

She no longer gallops across open fields, no longer soars over jumps like she once did. Her knees ache, her hands have lost the strength that once held the reins like a whisper of wind. But the passion — it hasn’t faded. Quite the opposite.

Every morning, she walks slowly to the stable. No rush. He’s there waiting — that same gaze, soft, deep, familiar. The horse lowers his head, touching her wrinkled hand as if to say: “I remember every step. And I’ve been waiting.”

She doesn’t race anymore, doesn’t fly with the wind. But every time her fingers brush through his mane — she’s twenty again inside. And every wrinkle on her face holds a story of friendship, trust, and an unbreakable love for horses.

Because a true rider never ages out of who they are. They simply change pace.
And even when the saddle becomes a memory,
the stable remains home.
And the horse — a friend who never leaves. 🖤