Horses Without Humans Rescue Organization

10/16/2026

Some of you will remember Arrow. He came to us last year, surrendered with a problem in his eye. That problem turned out to be cancer. You all stepped up and helped us pay for his enucleation. He came through it like the trooper he is, and he hasn’t looked back.

This spring Arrow was adopted. It turned out not to be the right fit. His adopter loves him, and she made the hard decision to bring him back to us so we could help him find the right home. We are grateful to her for that. It was the right thing for Arrow.

So here he is again. Arrow is 15 years old and stands 15.1 hands. He is easy to ride and he loves people. Watch him in the video: out on the trail, packing an inner tube, keeping his head when the big ball comes rolling by.

Arrow does have one requirement. He needs a home with lots of friends. He is happiest with several horses around him to keep him safe. We can share more with the right interested adopter.

If you have room in your herd and your heart, please fill out our online application at https://hwhrescue.org/adoption-form, or email us at [email protected].

If he isn’t your horse, please share him. You all found him help once before.

Let’s find Arrow his herd.

10/13/2026

The mares running in for breakfast at HWHrescue!!

09/14/2026

Rockette was officially adopted this past Saturday.

She went home with Larry and Suzy, who are no strangers to this farm. They adopted Prince from us back in 2021 when Suzy was our Adoption Coordinator. Kayla recently tagged Suzy in Rockette's post one day, and that was all it took. After the paperwork was signed, Rockette stayed on with us another month to keep building her strength and endurance. Now she is home.

Larry and Suzy wrote this, and we want you to read it in their words:

"After moving to Lake City in 2020, we met with Yvonne for dressage training, and learned of HWH. We attended our first HWH's Spirit of the Horse fundraiser soon after and Suzy volunteered to bartend that night when their bartender didn't show up…the rest is history.

We began volunteering for HWH, Suzy began showing at schooling show fundraisers, and she eventually became HWH's Adoption Coordinator. It was our small way to give back to an organization that makes such a meaningful difference in the lives of horses and the people who love them.

The compassion, dedication, and care HWH provides to the horses in its care inspired us to adopt from them when Larry's mare, Lily, was diagnosed with Cushings. To allow Lily to semi-retire, we asked HWH to keep an eye out for a "bigger" horse (our smallest is 16hh). After several months, Yvonne told us about Prince, who became our first adoption in late 2021.

In early 2026, Suzy's 25yo dressage mare Tess was also diagnosed with Cushings. Tess is doing well, and we were not even thinking about another horse. However, when Yvonne's daughter, Kayla, tagged Suzy in Rockette's FB post, something about her made us reach out to Yvonne. Again, the rest is history…we adopted her but boarded her at HWH for a month to continue her strength and endurance training.

We are happy to say that after some herd hierarchy issues, Prince and Rockette, our HWH adoptees, are getting along rather well and we are all adjusting to a herd of 5.

Thank you again HWH! Larry & Suzy"

Two HWH horses, one pasture, one family. There were some hierarchy discussions to be had, as there always are, and they got it sorted.

Photos and video below.

09/13/2026

Best of Florida Regional 2026 : Animal/Equine Rescue

The votes are counted. HWH Rescue has been named Best of Florida Regional Animal/Equine Rescue for 2026 by Guide to Florida.

Nobody bought that. You voted, one click at a time, and here we are.

I want to say plainly what this award is. It is not for me. It belongs to the mare who came off the trailer too weak to lift her head. It belongs to the gelding who stood quiet for his first real bath in who knows how long. It belongs to the volunteers who show up each week to do whatever it takes, to the our vet who pick up the phone at odd hours, and to every one of you who saw a hard-luck horse on this page and sent what you had.

Every chance, every kindness, every donation. That is what got voted on. The plaque is just the paperwork.

Sixty one thousand of you follow along here now. You know the names. You know the ones who made it and the ones we lost. You were there for all of it.

The horses will never know about any of this. What they know is a full hay net, a dry stall, and somebody who keeps showing up. You are why they get all three.

On behalf of our board and our team here, and especially the HWH herd, thank you.

https://guidetoflorida.com/best-of/winners/2026/pets-animals

09/08/2026

Meet Bullet 🐴

He is a four-year-old Tennessee Walker, 16 hands. He came in with his family. His mama Missy is twenty. His brother Gunner is three. His baby sister Pip is a yearling. 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦

They were not seized and they were not abandoned. They came to us from three seniors, each with their own health issues, before their love for these horses did. They made a hard call and they made it early, while there was still time to place them well. That takes something. We do not take it lightly, and neither should anyone who meets these horses. 💛

Let me be plain about where this horse is. Bullet has only thirty days under saddle, put on by one of our trainers, and they went well. Thirty days is the beginning of a training program, not the end of one. He knows how to carry a rider. He does not yet know how to handle a bad day, a big spook, a rider who gets tight in the hand, or the hundred other things a horse learns in his second and third year of work.

🎥 Watch the video and understand what you are watching. That is thirty honest days on a good mind. It is a foundation. It is not a finished horse and he will not hold up under a rider who cannot ride.

We have not had this c**t in front of us long enough to say how far he can go. Quiet and willing at thirty days is a fine start, and it is not a ceiling. Somebody needs to spend real time on him to find that out.

So here is who he needs. A competent intermediate rider at minimum, working with a trainer, with the seat and the patience to carry on where we left off. A rider who has brought a green horse along before, or who has someone beside them who has. This is not a first horse and it is not a horse to learn on. ⚠️ Placed right, he could be somebody's horse of a lifetime. Placed wrong, he will be ruined inside a year, and we have all seen it happen.

✅ If that is you, complete the online application here: https://hwhrescue.org/adoption-form

🤝 If it is nearly you, we have another option. Sponsor to adopt. You commit to Bullet, and your sponsorship buys him more months of training here while you get ready for him. It also buys the time to find out what this c**t really has in him. He goes home further along and better known, and you go into it with a horse you can ride.

Contact us at [email protected] and we will talk it through.

🔄 And please share the post. Sharing reaches the right people, and the right people are who we are looking for.

They entrusted these horses to us so they would have a future. Every horse that comes to HWH Rescue gets one. 🐎💙

09/07/2026

Six years ago my daughter Kassie adopted on a big bay rescue horse who could bolt without warning. She has ridden hundreds of horses. This one, in her words, had her shaking in her boots.

This weekend that same horse and rider went down the centerline at FEI Intermediare I. Three rides, three wins, and a score above 69 percent with two judges in every class.

Here is what Kassie had to say about it:

"Proud is an understatement of my sweet SKY! We have been working hard on our partnership for about 6 years now. We focused on the I-1 this weekend and was so happy to finish on a 69+%. It's always fun showing and sharing our love of the horse and sport together!"

Sky is a 17.1 hand Oldenburg, foaled in 2014. He came to us as a rescue. What he got was time, patience, and a young woman who kept showing up.

Today is Labor Day, so this is a fitting day to post it. Sky did not arrive at this level and neither did Kassie. Six years of early mornings, of ordinary rides that went nowhere, of starting over after a bad day and coming back the next morning to try again. That is the labor. The ribbons are just the part you can see.

Not every horse has what Sky has. We know that better than most. Some of the horses who come through our gates will never see a show ring, and they do not need to. But when one of them turns out to have this in him, and somebody is willing to put in the time to find out, this is what it can look like.

The pair is solid at Prix St. Georges and Intermediare I now. Next step is the Grand Prix.

The Washington Post made a short documentary about the two of them a few years back. Link is in the comments. If you have not seen it, go watch it.

Kassie, we are all proud of you.

And Sky deserves his share of it. He is the one who had to learn to trust a person again, and he did the work too. He is a trier. He always was, once somebody gave him the chance to show it.

Happy Labor Day to all of you, and thank you for the work you do on behalf of these horses.

09/07/2026

Six years ago my daughter Kassie got on a big bay rescue horse who could bolt without warning. She has ridden hundreds of horses. This one, in her words, had her shaking in her boots.

This weekend that same horse went down the centerline at FEI Intermediare I. Three rides, three wins, and a score above 69 percent with two judges in every class.

Here is what Kassie had to say about it:

"Proud is an understatement of my sweet SKY! We have been working hard on our partnership for about 6 years now. We focused on the I-1 this weekend and was so happy to finish on a 69+%. It's always fun showing and sharing our love of the horse and sport together!"

Sky is a 17.1 hand Oldenburg, foaled in 2014. He came to us as a rescue. What he got was time, patience, and a young woman who kept showing up.

Today is Labor Day, so this is a fitting day to post it. Sky did not arrive at this level and neither did Kassie. Six years of early mornings, of ordinary rides that went nowhere, of starting over after a bad day and coming back the next morning to try again. That is the labor. The ribbons are just the part you can see.

Not every horse has what Sky has. We know that better than most. Some of the horses who come through our gates will never see a show ring, and they do not need to. But when one of them turns out to have this in him, and somebody is willing to put in the time to find out, this is what it can look like.

The pair is solid at Prix St. Georges and Intermediare I now. Next step is the Grand Prix.

The Washington Post made a short documentary about the two of them a few years back. If you have not seen it, go watch it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/creativegroup/stage/zoetis/turning-a-troubled-horse-into-a-champion/

Kassie, we are all proud of you.

And Sky deserves his share of it. He is the one who had to learn to trust a person again, and he did the work too. He is a trier. He always was, once somebody gave him the chance to show it.

Happy Labor Day to all of you, and thank you for the work you do on behalf of these horses.

Watch:Turning a troubled horseinto a champion The special bond between one woman and the horse she adopted has changed both their lives. Kassie Barteau is an equestrian champ who, in her own words, has “ridden hundreds of horses.” And yet, when she first met rescue horse Sky, she felt intimidate...

09/07/2026

Six years ago my daughter Kassie got on a big bay rescue horse who could bolt without warning. She has ridden hundreds of horses. This one, in her words, had her shaking in her boots.

This weekend that same horse went down the centerline at FEI Intermediare I. Three rides, three wins, and a score above 69 percent with two judges in every class.

Here is what Kassie had to say about it:

"Proud is an understatement of my sweet SKY! We have been working hard on our partnership for about 6 years now. We focused on the I-1 this weekend and was so happy to finish on a 69+%. It's always fun showing and sharing our love of the horse and sport together!"

Sky is a 17.1 hand Oldenburg, foaled in 2014. He came to us as a rescue. What he got was time, patience, and a young woman who kept showing up.

Today is Labor Day, so this is a fitting day to post it. Sky did not arrive at this level and neither did Kassie. Six years of early mornings, of ordinary rides that went nowhere, of starting over after a bad day and coming back the next morning to try again. That is the labor. The ribbons are just the part you can see.

Not every horse has what Sky has. We know that better than most. Some of the horses who come through our gates will never see a show ring, and they do not need to. But when one of them turns out to have this in him, and somebody is willing to put in the time to find out, this is what it can look like.

The pair is solid at Prix St. Georges and Intermediare I now. Next step is the Grand Prix.

The Washington Post made a short documentary about the two of them a few years back. If you have not seen it, go watch it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/creativegroup/stage/zoetis/turning-a-troubled-horse-into-a-champion/

Kassie, we are all proud of you.

And Sky deserves his share of it. He is the one who had to learn to trust a person again, and he did the work too. He is a trier. He always was, once somebody gave him the chance to show it.

Happy Labor Day to all of you, and thank you for the work you do on behalf of these horses.

Yvonne

Watch:Turning a troubled horseinto a champion The special bond between one woman and the horse she adopted has changed both their lives. Kassie Barteau is an equestrian champ who, in her own words, has “ridden hundreds of horses.” And yet, when she first met rescue horse Sky, she felt intimidate...