GRG Ranch Horse Rescue & Sanctuary

07/20/2025

07/20/2025

07/19/2025

🪰 From "The Fly" to "Supa-Fly"..... Blue wants to send out a HUGE thank you to Janette for gifting him a brand new left eye cup mask!!

~ This handsome older gentleman is doing great!! He's handling his banamine well, mostly good for his warm compresses and eye ointment 4x a day, and the excede antibiotic injection is definitely doing its job!💉 He'll see our friends from Cleary Lake Veterinary Hospital Equine again on Monday, but everything is looking great so far!! 💜

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07/19/2025

07/18/2025

"We get no choice. If we love, we grieve."
~ Thomas Lynch

Ginger, you were a beautiful, incredibly resilient, sensitive and damaged soul. In spite of our best efforts, your fear never left you. It escalated, and though you found a peace amongst a herd - people had become a threat to you, long ago. Around us you were reactive and on constant high alert.

Because of the life inflicted upon her, Ginger's fear had made her dangerous, unpredictable, and unsafe to be around. Handling her was impossible without an explosion, and if a human was anywhere near - she immediately began looking for a way out and did everything she could to protect her space.

Yesterday, I had to make the heart breaking decision to give her the peace she'd been denied for so long. These are the goodbyes that hurt the most. None of this was her fault, and yet she paid the ultimate price for human actions.

Ginger, you were so incredibly loved. There is no fear for you now, and to us - you are important, and you matter. I am so sorry for what they put you through, and I am so sorry I couldn't find a way to make it right. 🧡

~ The laws surrounding animal welfare need to change. Now. They deserve better, and it's our responsibility to provide that.

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07/17/2025

🐴❤️‍🩹 Back at Cleary Lake Veterinary Hospital Equine with Blue - and we have a BIG ask for our equine friends nearby!! 🙏 If anyone has a gently used left eye cup mask we could either borrow or buy for a reasonable price - we would be GREATLY appreciative!! They're $175 from the clinic, and with finances tighter than my father's wallet - we could use some help!!

🙌 PLEASE SHARE WITH YOUR HORSE FRIENDS!! Blue is SUCH a good boy, but a bit of a do**us - so we need to keep him from continuing to bonk his eye!! 👁

07/17/2025

🐴❤️‍🩹 A somewhat gentle reminder from us here at GRG. GRG Ranch Horse Rescue & Sanctuary does NOT exist to finance your dreams of horse ownership.

~ Our foster program exists to give caring and qualified horse lovers an opportunity to help out a horse in need with some one on one attention while helping the rescue by freeing up much needed space and helping with feeding expenses. To help them learn and grow while they search for THEIR home.

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07/16/2025

🐴❤️‍🩹 A year ago, thanks to the heart of Melissa Hansen and with the help of the Sibley County Sheriff's Office - we met Ed Sheeran for the very first time. In a very, very sad state....

And here we are today - a healthy, happy, sassy little ginger swaggin' it up in our Special Needs Paddock. Thank you for helping us change his narrative. 🧡

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07/16/2025

"You run a rescue? Wow! You're living my dream!!"

Ok. Let's test that theory. Here's a day in the life of the founder of a rescue - an EASY day...

Luckily, it's Tuesday, so I have help with morning chores. Before 6am, hay is in action - 22 full hay nets, 4 bales into various feeders - and I'm inside mixing up feed pans and meds. 3 pans of mash, 4 feed bags, 11 pans of feed. All feed is out by 715am. At which point, I trot on to Webster, to do chores there. Mash for Bing and momma, hay and ration balancer for Santana.

Getting back to GRG home base, and what do I see? A minor colic episode from Lunar Meatball. A dose of banamine, check for gut sounds and check her gums, close watch for a bit - ok, she's good. Now to get in some work for my REAL job. The one that regularly takes a back seat to the running of a rescue.

But not for long - now it's time for 250 mile road trip with a trailer to pick up Demi and Chilli. Paired with a last minute farrier appointment to get them back on track, this duo made their way back to GRG home base.

Are you still with me? OK - good. Because it's now barely 1pm.

And your next phone call is from a very diligent foster. Blue has injured his eye, and needs and emergency veterinary visit. Good thing you're already hooked up to the trailer...

And now, it's after 10pm. I just finished evening chores in Webster, and it's Tuesday - so evening hay nets have been hung by our incredible volunteers. Taking just a minute eat some breakfast while eve mash soaks, before I bring out evening feed. 1 mash pan, 2 feed bags, and 8 pans.

And this is just another Tuesday....

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07/15/2025

🐴❤️‍🩹 I'd just like to take a minute and appreciate how far our baby brained big boy, Buddy Holly, has come.

~ Nearly a year ago, we met this boy more or less unhandled at 16 years old, with dramatic halter scarring and lacking knowledge of any handling beyond walking on a lead. A sweeter, more curious and willing gelding has never existed.... Today, he's a gentle giant, softly supervising while a therapy student gives him some grooming love. 💙

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