The horses we rescue have seen a lot of mistreatment, abuse, neglect, and abandonment in their lives. Many believe horses from auctions and kill pens should not be rescued, but we don’t believe that. Just because they come from a bad place that they didn’t choose to be in, doesn’t mean they are bad horses and their lives have no value. Many of these horses find themselves in this place due to no fault of their own. The kill pen does not discriminate. Many of them are young with so much potential like colts and fillies that are just not broke to ride yet, some of them as young as a few months old. Many of them are lesson horses, former show horses, former race horses, and former work horses. Even pregnant mares find themselves there and give birth in awful situations with no vet care, no food, resulting in death. Many are victims of overbreeding. Many breeders over breed horses resulting in them being taken to auctions and bought very cheap by kill buyers. Horse slaughter was banned in the United States, but it is still legal in Mexico and Canada. The kill buyers hold these horses in extremely inhumane conditions where they are overcrowded in disease ridden enclosures often resulting in their deaths even if they are not shipped for their meat. Sometimes these horses spend months in these conditions waiting to be saved or shipped. Many just need a second chance. We rescue them from these horrific places they were in, and quarantine them to make sure no diseases are transferred. We immediately give them vet care and assess their physical and dietary needs. We can get them out, but they still need a home and a family. If they are not adopted, more space cannot be made to rescue more horses. They deserve to be loved and taken care of in their best suited home. We make sure that the home our horses to go are properly equipped to foster or adopt a horse. We don’t want a single Bluey’s rescue to end up in situations we rescued them from ever again. You can be the one to save a life today.