09/02/2025
PLEASE read the below which explains why Colby’s Crew Rescue is one of only a FEW legitimate and well established rescues we refer to. In addition to horses being taken directly to avoid slaughter and being available fully quarantined and vetted prior to being made available (saving at least $1000 for the new owner as well as no surprise health issues that could be diagnosed.) THIS IS HOW A RESCUE SHOULD OPERATE! Thanks for supporting them even by liking their post!
WE ARE HEADED TO THE EQUINE SLAUGHTER HOLDING FACILITY VERY SOON
We’re preparing to rescue more horses from certain death.
I thought it was a perfect time to explain some ground rules before things get crazy with the fundraiser.
Just to be clear— we do NOT broker for the slaughter holding facility.
We do not post horses online with ship dates to encourage people to buy them and take them home.
We do not adopt horses out without applications or contracts, we do not fundraise to “give you a free horse”.
We have never and will never sell horses back into the slaughter pipeline.
CCR has never sold a horse into slaughter. Ever.
CCR has never sold a horse at public auction. Ever.
We have NEVER received a W-9 or a 1099 from any slaughter holding facility. This means we have NEVER been paid in any form or fashion by the slaughter holding facility to rescue from there. AKA we have never “sold horses back” to slaughter and to write that is a blatant act of defamation that is being recorded and we will 110% hold those accountable for that both legally and publicly.
Let me repeat: WE HAVE NEVER SOLD A HORSE AT AUCTION and WE HAVE NEVER SOLD A HORSE TO SLAUGHTER.
Never. Not once.
And let me be clear, CCR will euthanize a horse at veterinary direction before it will EVER send a horse to slaughter. We do not believe slaughter is a moral or ethical means of euthanizing a horse.
We stand firmly against horse slaughter and always will.
We have a $10,000 penalty in our adoption contracts to prevent an adopter from doing this very thing (selling horses at public auction or directly / indirectly into slaughter), or selling and / or rehoming a horse without our knowledge and you BEST believe we will enforce it.
I’ll elaborate on that later.
We have willingly submitted our financials to an independent forensic audit for every year we have current 990s and NO WRONG DOING has ever been found or reported
We will continue to submit to them for each future year.
Our entire board of directors and key employees sign whistleblower and conflict of interest policies to ensure we hold ourselves to the HIGHEST standard.
We have eagerly submitted our financials and audits (completely) to many states to get charitably registered and licensed within them.
We have NOTHING to hide and remain a legitimate rescue.
Here’s what we will NOT do:
We cannot put you in touch with the owner of the slaughter facility — he will ban us from coming back for giving out his number.
We do not have time to take jog videos, conformation shots, or ride these horses so you can decide if you’d like to take a personal chance on saving one.
More importantly, THE HORSES do not have time for that.
We do not make the rules at the facility. We do not decide who’s allowed in and who’s not. We do not decide how long we can be there, how many we can save, etc
That’s why it’s so important to save the ones we can!
We do not want to get involved in anything other than saving the horses directly into our rescue.
We hope to (soon) set up a rescue to rescue transfer process for approved 501c3s but we want it to be exactly right before beginning anything. A recent failure of this brokering type method of rescue is a huge reason why we just don’t do it — because when it goes wrong, it goes very wrong and horses suffer.
Recently allegations regarding “mass bailing” is floating around that someone who’s desperately trying to leach off the views saying our name brings keeps trying to connect to us.
We have nothing to do with that stupid drama and we are not a mass bailer.
Why?
WE NEVER PULL FROM AUCTION, SLAUGHTER HOLDING FACILITY OR OWNER SURRENDER AND IMMEDIATELY REHOME.
Never have and never will.
And what is floating around right now is WHY!
We do not, let me repeat, we do not “mass bail.” We intake every horse into our organization directly. We do all the vet work and quarantine ourselves. We provide 30 days of training prior to adoption, and if a horse is deemed unadoptable they are either sanctuaried or euthanized by licensed veterinary direction within our organization.
Mic drop!
We will not participate in rescue to rescue infighting. CCR is focused solely on the innocent lives in danger.
If you’d still like to assist us in getting them out, THANK YOU! If you want to save horses for yourself, we thank you for helping horses and wish you well!
We care about what happens to these horses after rescue so there is a thorough well thought out process developed to give them the best chance possible.
We will attempt to save every single horse inside and then after passing a stringent quarantine, medical evaluation and training evaluation they will hopefully be available for adoption. This process takes 90-120 days at minimum (we still have horses in QT 18 months later). It’s why we fundraise the way we do.
We have adopted out 1000+ horses so far, and have 400+ adopted out in 2025 already! With 300+ pictured on the 2025 graduate section of our website and tons more to be added!
We absolutely can assist you with adopting a suitable horse if you’d like one that came from this facility that is fully quarantined, vetted and evaluated.
Check out our website for Testimonials, Graduates and available horses: www.colbyscrewrescue.org. We have two new groups arriving next week (18 horses) to be training evaluated. We have young horses, drafts, minis, donkeys, etc available!!
I hope this clears up some misconceptions we are getting in our comment sections and messenger as we have some new faces. I want to be direct and clear and fully transparent about our intentions and how we work as a rescue.
Other rescues do operate differently than us and that is perfectly reasonable and acceptable— this is just how WE work!
We are so appreciative of your support in any form — comments, likes, engagement, donations, etc.
If you see people questioning our operations or methods, please feel free to share this post with them.
Now! Let’s get back to focusing on the horses.
-O
