Empowrd Art & Animal Outreach

06/05/2026

🐴🩷 Rescue Supply Wish Lists 🩷🐴
With new babies coming into the rescue on a regular basis, our need for supplies never slows down. One of the most helpful ways to support the animals is by sending items directly from our wish lists.
If you'd like to lend a hand, you can shop from our lists here:
📦 Amazon Wish List:
https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1BW23D4Q1FORC?ref_=wl_share
🐾 Chewy Wish List:
https://www.chewy.com/g/empowrd-art-animal-outreach-inc_b138827287 -list&wishlistsortby=DEFAULT
From feed and supplements to grooming supplies, cleaning products, and medical essentials, every item helps us provide quality care to the animals who depend on us.
No donation is too small. Every act of kindness makes a difference in the lives of horses and animals who have already been through so much.
Thank you for being part of their journey and helping us continue this important work. ❤️
Empowrd Art & Animal Outreach
EIN #33-2878734
🙏🐴🐾❤️

champions the healing journey of both humans and animals through creative expression, building a compassionate community where art becomes a catalyst for rescue, rehabilitation, and

06/05/2026

‼️ Love Is More Than Feeding Them
One of the hardest truths we see in rescue is that good intentions are not always enough.
Every day, we meet animals who were loved, yet somehow still failed. They were fed, and cared for in the most basic ways, but they were never truly prepared for life. With large equines especially, love must go beyond hay, grain, and a fence line.
A horse cannot simply be tucked away and forgotten because you plan to keep them forever. Life changes. Illness happens. Finances change. People age. Emergencies arise. Senior horses are particularly vulnerable to these realities.
Every horse deserves to be catchable, handleable, and safe for veterinary care, farrier visits, transport, and emergencies. They deserve routine vaccinations, dental care, medical attention, and the confidence that comes from patient, consistent handling. Desensitization and training are not luxuries—they are part of responsible ownership.
We hear it all the time: "But I love them." And we believe that. But sometimes people love animals in a way that serves their own heart while neglecting the animal's future. Horses are purchased, rescued, saved from auctions and kill pens, transported across the country, and then left standing in a pasture as something beautiful to look at. Meanwhile, the years pass by, their needs increase, and they become harder to place, harder to help, and harder to save when circumstances change.
The reality is that rescue is exhausted. Funds are stretched thin. Qualified homes are scarce. The burden of an untrained, unhandled, or medically neglected animal almost always falls on someone else eventually. And not everyone has the time, resources, knowledge, or ability to take that on.
At rescue, we don't have the luxury of hoping things work out. We have to prepare these animals for success because their future depends on it. Every lesson, every veterinary appointment, every farrier visit, every difficult day spent building trust is an investment in the rest of their life.
If you truly love your animals, make an endgame plan. Give them the skills they need to thrive if life takes an unexpected turn. Prepare them for the possibility that one day someone else may need to care for them.
Don't waste their best years assuming tomorrow is guaranteed.
Because real love isn't just keeping an animal alive.
Real love is giving them every opportunity to be safe, healthy, wanted, and cared for—for their entire life, no matter where that life leads them. ❤️🐴

👉Their future matters. Their dignity matters. Their journey matters.
Empowrd Art & Animal Outreach
"Where compassion meets responsibility." 🐴❤️🐾

06/04/2026

06/04/2026

Breakfast & Treat Prepping

06/04/2026

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06/03/2026

There’s a special kind of love woven into this work. This week was filled with long days, hard work, and hearts coming together for the animals. We helped our neighboring rescue complete projects, pulled together as a team, welcomed and settled in the new kids, and spent time calming them and helping them prepare for their next chapter.
We sorted much-needed donated medical supplies, something we are incredibly grateful for. Not only do we collect supplies for our own animals, but we also assemble emergency kits for others in need when unexpected situations arise. Between weeding through the rain, grooming our fur babies, ordering supplements for special-needs animals, completing paperwork, planning the week ahead, answering emergency calls, providing outreach assistance, and preparing for hurricane season, there is never a shortage of work to be done.
Yet somehow, among the busy days, there are still moments to appreciate the beauty around us—the quiet nickers, the trusting eyes, the wagging tails, and the reminder that every effort, no matter how small, makes a difference. We are deeply grateful for our volunteers, supporters, and community who help make this mission possible. Together, we keep showing up, one animal at a time. ❤️🐴🌿🐾

06/02/2026

We typically do not get into the rant business, but 
👉 PSA -any pledges or donations that were made to any account other than
Paypal- [email protected]
Zelle- [email protected]
I have not seen, I am not notified of, nor has anything to do with our Rescue.
‼️ Rescue Should Never Be About the Check
This may be unpopular, but it needs to be said.
👉Dogs on euthanasia lists are living, breathing animals—not fundraising opportunities.
Nor should any other animal who needs to be rescued..
👉Pledges were originally created to help encourage a reputable rescue to step forward and save a dog's life. Or a horse from an auction for that matter .
👉They were never meant to become the sole reason a dog is pulled from a shelter.
👉If the first question is, "How much money comes with this dog?" instead of "Can we properly care for this dog?" then something is seriously wrong.
🙏A rescue's responsibility begins the moment that dog leaves the shelter.Veterinary care, food, training, rehabilitation, transportation, housing, emergencies, and sometimes months of dedicated work all fall on the rescue. Or in this case, the person who asked to foster the dog .
🚨 Some rescues who are asked to take on this responsibility, had not even known about the private deals that were made on the side .
👉Pledges are donations—not guarantees, not salaries, and certainly not a business model.
If a person or organization cannot provide for a dog's basic needs without relying entirely on pledge money, they should reconsider whether they are in a position to take that animal. In the last couple weeks I have been going down a deep rabbit hole. And boy does it come with a lot of ugliness .Good intentions alone do not pay veterinary bills or provide long-term care.
The heartbreaking reality is that some dogs receive thousands in pledges while others receive little or none. Every animal deserves a chance, not just the ones attached to the biggest dollar amount.
The rescue community works best when decisions are driven by compassion, responsibility, and a genuine commitment to the animal's future—not by financial incentives.
The goal should always be saving lives and providing quality care. The money should support the mission, not become the mission.
For those who foster, transport, donate, volunteer, and quietly do the hard work every day: thank you. The animals deserve advocates who see them as lives worth saving, not numbers attached to a fundraising post.
👉I have realized that there are people out there who make promises they can’t keep , Rescues who dump animals off with anyone who will take them , and others just want to adopt AKA buy animals just so they can flip them . Or how about that -I would like to adopt your animal but I do not want to sign a no sales contract or adoption contract. That is not adoption that is profit.
‼️Let me be clear. That is not what we do and shame on you .It does certainly take funds to continue the mission and do good. It takes funds to make sure every animal gets a proper restart.Every wish list purchase , every bag of food, every ounce of kindness is greatly appreciated.The hands-on are just as important  as that 💵
‼️ We have had morals way before we got our 501 ,We did not spend months and months of planning to become an animal rescue to fall into the same trap as many others.

Some of y'all got into rescue to save animals. Some of y'all got into rescue because you thought it was a fundraising opportunity.
The jealousy over donations, the backstabbing, the gossip, and the obsession with other people's supporters says more than you realize.
The money was never yours. The pledges were never yours. The animal was never your paycheck.
We see you. We take notes. We keep receipts.
And eventually, accountability collects every debt. The truth always makes its way to daylight. 🐾🔥