Find more cost-effective boarding options. If a full care pension is too expensive, look at the partial care table, self-supply table or pasture board. Maybe you have to give up some amenities, like an equestrian arena, but keeping your horse safe often means making sacrifices. PLEASE NOTE: Do not contact us for the delivery of a horse you do not own, unless the person who owns the horse has agreed to drop the horse off. Nor is this the place to inform us of cases of negligence. If the horse is privately owned, please contact the RSPCA. Therapeutic equestrian centres, mounted police units and university riding programs accept all abandoned horses. Use the same careful thinking you would do when choosing a home for your horse. Make sure you know what the rules of the organization are for horses that are retired or no longer suitable for the program. Hundreds of rescues of American horses and sanctuaries take horses with the intention of taking them to a new home. The sanctuaries offer horses a home for life. If you give your horse to a horse rescue or sanctuary, make sure it is a legitimate, well-managed organization, capable of taking care of its horse properly. You can use the HSUS/AWI guidelines for operating a horse rescue or boarding facility (PDF) to evaluate a potential organism.

If, as a horse owner, you decide that you can no longer care for your horse, you should not take it to a cattle auction. Instead, you should use a variety of human options at your disposal. We understand how difficult it is to house healthy horses at home, but due to past problems, we cannot help, if the horse is not part of SAHA, it cannot be back home as part of our lifetime adoption contract. We have over 1000 horses that have been adopted by SAHA and, out of necessity, we have had to implement this capitulation policy so that our time and resources are spent best for our horse friends who need it most. A question that is too often asked at the AGES. People who experience difficulties such as unemployment, enforced execution, illness or divorce seek the help of the AGES by welcoming their horses. Unfortunately, the AGES is almost always at full capacity and has a long waiting list of horses that need our help. Every time a horse changes ownership, it may be sold at slaughter.

Local auctions are attended by intermediaries who want to buy healthy young horses for foreign slaughterhouses. Thank you for your understanding and we are here to help if we can. Please fill out the form below with as much detail as possible and return it to office@saveahorse.org.au. The more information you give us, the sooner we can help them. To thrive, horses need healthy amounts of food and water, adequate shelter and competent care. Horse owners need to find a lot of time, energy, skill and money to ensure their horses have everything they need to lead a happy and healthy life of thirty years or more. When space is available, the AGES usually takes the same type of horse that has just been adopted. For example, if the adopted horse was a project or a grazing horse, the AGES takes another pasture or other project.

In general, these horses take longer, potentially 2 years or more, to find a new home. Please note that your horse is a grazing or project horse.