Kentucky Humane Society Equine CARE

08/02/2025

Here’s two quick pics of Basil and momma Poppy, as well as a headshot of formerly emaciated feral Stella looking regal. Thanks, team member Jackie, for the great shots! 😍

07/31/2025

Volunteer drawing for KHS hats! Volunteers had their name put in for each shift they worked last month, we are drawing names to give away some KHS hats.

07/31/2025

Our Willow Hope Farm was named after two impactful stories of horses who came here to find safety, improved health, and a brighter future. Here’s one of those two, Hope, still rockin’ and rollin’ down the trails with her adopter. Someone tried to shoot her at least twice but she’s unstoppable. She was caught shortly after someone gunned down most of her herd, but had a long-healed bullet imbedded in her neck at the time too. Even after what they did to her, Hope forgave humans and moved on with the help of people who love her. She seems to be happier than ever, and we can all learn something from that. ❤️

07/29/2025

"WHAT?! They don't know we have a shopping list of cool stuff that helps care for the horses/mules/donkeys here at Kentucky Humane Society?! Somebody had better let them know!"

Murphy is horrified that some folks don't know about our wish list. If you'd like to take a peek and send him something nice, check it out here: https://a.co/4LxLfGk

07/29/2025

Thanks to your support, we met our goal and raised enough money to stock the hay loft at Willow Hope Farm.

We're grateful to the Klein Family Foundation for their generous matching gift opportunity and to all who donated to provide nutritious hay for our horses. Thanks for being a Hay Bale Hero!

07/28/2025

You’re a young child, carefree, following your mother around and suddenly you’ve been surrounded in a run-in stall by a rouge gang of neighborhood chickens! Oh no!

In case you were wondering how big SummerJo is, it’s not much bigger apparently than several chickens. She did survive this run in with them, and lived to sass around another day.

Thank you to trusty volunteer Annabelle for the photo.

07/27/2025

Companion alert!

Welcome BACK to KHS, Saddlebred gelding Duke. Duke was adopted from KHS years ago but his adopter was experiencing some life changes and needed to find a safe place for Duke.

Duke is a friendly companion horse who isn’t ridden due to a pelvic injury that occurred when he was a youngster prior to coming to KHS. As you can see, Duke doesn’t seem to be held back physically by whatever happened to him before and gets around great so we don’t think he should have any problem serving as a companion to another beloved horse. Watch for his adoption listing after we get to know him a bit better. (Duke’s first stay at KHS pre-dates most team members at the farm, hence the “getting to know” a horse “we” already had once. )

07/26/2025

How’s it going with Nyx this week?

Nyx is on the “occasional training plan” aka when we find spare time, she gets worked with but it may be once or twice a week. Some horses have to have more to make much progress, but some with curious malleable minds can let things soak in over time and really seem happy to relax a lot between sessions.

This would be maybe her 5th training session, not a tame horse sent out for training, like the 5th time since we got a rope around her neck and asked her to start giving to pressure and learning to lead, and not climbing a wall when you walk in her stall. She’s amazing. She’s still scared of a lot, and still mostly scared of people. But if you take it slow and let her figure it out this girl will try anything for you. She wore a saddle for the first time (fitted for learning not for riding, don’t come at us over just a nonslip pad and a treeless saddle that’s a bit too on top of her shoulders 😬) like it was nothing. She is still very much mostly feral acting, but if you know how to ask, you can get her to try things when she isn’t sure, and she keeps a level head about many things that would be tough for others. She had her first hosing and thanks to the oppressive heat she thought that was great. Then she even stood for fly spray. Then, lest you think we are joking about her still being mostly feral and barely broke to lead, you’ll notice that walking between the Kubota and the stalls was a bit suspicious to her and she needed some time to check out the situation to be sure I wasn’t asking her to walk into a trap.

She’s been one of the more agreeable ferals we’ve had in a while and we are enjoying having her around for a bit until she’s ready to find her people one day. We have been happy to share her journey with you.

07/25/2025

Woah look how far Demara has come since her arrival!

We also got back her DNA results thanks to Saddlebred Legacy Foundation sponsoring that, and her registered name is…
EARLY GIRL TOMATO 🍅

Not sure why but she was born not far from here in Finchville, KY. Thank you to her sponsor Wolfgang for believing in her!
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07/25/2025

Thank you to Carlee Hogsten of WKYT for doing a follow up on Bella and Victor of the

Currently those are the only two left here after the others have found homes.

https://www.wkyt.com/2025/07/24/rescued-horses-ready-homes-after-franklin-co-neglect-case/

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The 13 horses are now recovered, most with homes and a few still looking for a forever family.

07/23/2025

Rescued in January (top right), adopted in March, and look at her now. Nothing short of a miracle, and Miracle she is. 🤩

Thank you adopter Chris for sharing recent photos of this gorgeous filly, and thanks to everyone who helped her in any way. Her story is one of hope and resilience. Once a disadvantaged feral-born filly clinging to life by a thread, now she’s not just surviving, she’s thriving. Just one of over 230 horses we’ve rescued from free-roaming feral herds.

Followers like YOU make recoveries like this possible for horses who come to Kentucky Humane Society for a chance at a new life.

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