Horses Without Humans Rescue Organization

08/28/2026

Today is Rainbow Bridge Remembrance Day. 🌈

We are thinking about the horses, ponies, and donkeys who are not here anymore. The ones who came to us too late. The ones we got to keep for years. The ones who arrived thin and frightened and left this world fat, safe, and well loved.

Some of them you knew by name. You followed their intakes, you watched them put on weight, you sent in donations when the vet bills came. Their hoofprints are on your hearts the same as they are on ours.

Chase was here one week, one I will always cherish. He nickered at every person who walked past him and lapped up his warm mash like any horse would. He had been through too much for too long and veterinary science could not undo it. You grieved him right along with us. That is why the fund carries his name.

Now we want to hear about yours.

Share your horse in the comments today. A name, a photo, one thing you remember. The first pony you ever rode. The old gelding who taught your kids. The mare you had for twenty three years. We will read every one of them.

Keep praying the three horses we posted yesterday. We are still pursuing alternative solutions sooner than later. The clock is still running on those three souls.

If you are able, give to the Chase Fund in memory of a horse you loved. It goes to the ones who come in critical, the ones who need everything at once. Your thoughts, your prayers, your donations, that is what gets us to the next day.

hwhrescue.org/chase-fund

Yvonne

08/27/2026

Three horses. Three sweet souls…

Thirty minutes from us. The owner will not surrender them and will not let a vet near them.

The law gives him seven days.

We have the trailer ready and the vet on call. What we need from you today is prayer.

Please do not contact the owner or go out to the property. Let this be done right.

Seven days. We will be there on day eight.

08/26/2026

Well, HWH family,

We went out with the sheriff's office and animal control to look at three horses in a pasture about thirty minutes from us. Our farrier called it in. The neighbor had already called it in too. Nobody had seen the owner in quite some time.

The owner finally showed up. He does not want to surrender them and he will not have a vet look at them.

Here is where the law stands. He has seven days to get those horses seen. Seven days before animal control can seize them. That is the timeline and we have to respect it, no matter what our eyes are telling us.

The photos below are hard to look at. We are sharing them because you deserve to know what we are looking at, and because these three sentient beings deserve to be seen.

This is not unusual. This is how it works in most places. A horse can be starving in plain sight, with the sheriff standing right there, and the clock still has to run out first.

So we wait. We have the trailer, we have the vet on call, we have a quarantine paddock ready, and we have you.

What we are asking for today is your prayers. Pray these three make it another week. Please do not contact the owner or go out to that property. Anything that complicates this case hurts the horses, not him.

Seven days. We will be there on day eight.

08/26/2026

Remembering Dolly Parton 🧡

Yesterday the world lost Dolly Parton, a woman who spent her life turning hardship into hope. One of her simplest truths says everything about why we do what we do:

"If you want the rainbow, you have to put up with the rain."

Every horse that comes to us has weathered their share of rain. Neglect, hard weather, hunger, the storms of being forgotten. Our mission is to be what comes after the rain: the safe pasture, the full feed bucket, the gentle hands, the second chance.

Dolly believed the rainbow was always worth the wait. So do we. Thank you to everyone helping us give these horses their brighter days ahead. 🧡

(If you missed it, our appeal is still up, and every bit of support helps us weather the storm for them.)

08/26/2026

That is me in a finished paddock making sand angels. No snow in Florida, so we make do.

And that paddock exists because of you.

$300 came in yesterday from folks who read the last post and sent what they could. Some of you have been sending for years. Some of you sent for the first time. You do not have to do any of it, and you do it anyway. There is no version of this rescue without you. Not one horse, not one bale, not one load of gravel.

The first load could not wait, so I paid for it myself. Same with the second. Our staff hauled it, laid it, and rolled it in the heat, and I showed up at the end and flopped down in it. For about two minutes nothing was urgent. I will take those two minutes.

Because the rest of it is this.

Running a rescue means choosing. Every day, all day.

I choose how much hay I can buy at one time. I choose feed carefully. I choose vet visits even more carefully. And lately, even though it seems like a small thing next to all that, I have to choose which horses get to stand on dry ground.

I am not God. I cannot control the weather. This rain has left a lot of horses in bad paddock conditions, not just mine.

I wish footing was more glamorous. Easier for people to see the value in. Nobody falls in love with a load of limestone screening. But that ground packs hard and it drains, and those horses walk out onto footing that is not mud. That is the difference between a sound foot and a foot we are treating twice a day.

Yesterday's $300 is three quarters of a load. $110 more finishes it. Two paddocks are done and we need five more loads for the rest, with over twenty horses waiting on dry ground.

This is our biggest need right now. Please help if you can.

We accept credit card, Venmo, ACH, and PayPal.

https://hwhrescue.org/donate

Every dollar of it ends up in the same place, right under a horse.

Thank you for standing with us.

08/25/2026

Well, folks, this is not the ask I like to make.

The rain has not let up, and the paddocks have paid for it. The ground has gone soft and soupy in the places horses stand the most, at the gates, the troughs, the run-in sheds. Over twenty horses are standing on footing that never gets a chance to dry.

Wet ground means thrush. Thrush left alone means abscesses and deeper infections. We are treating feet daily right now and we are losing ground to the weather.

The fix is limestone screening mixed with clay. It packs down, it drains, and it holds through a wet season. Due to the urgency, I paid for the first load today, $410, and that one load covers two paddocks. We need five more loads to get the rest of them done. That is $2,050.

The video shows it better than I can tell it. You will see exactly what these horses are walking through.

I know this is not the kind of ask that comes with a face and a name and a rescue story. Nobody gets excited about gravel. But dry footing is the difference between a sound horse and a horse fighting an infection all winter, and every one of them out there deserves the sound version.

Any amount helps. One load, half a load, ten dollars toward a load. You all have never let these horses down yet.

Yvonne

https://www.hwhrescue.org/donate

We accept Veem, PayPal, ACH, and credit card

08/25/2026

With Ibericon coming up soon it is great to see these clips from last year and also my great good friend Papi in here!

08/24/2026

Where have you been Yvonne?

Well… the truth is….

I have been mowing!!!

I bet you all wonder why I am not making more posts, why you do not get to watch my little videos as i wander round the rescue chatting with horses…

The answer is this relentless rain!

Rain…. Every day… equals lots of grass to be mowed.

126 acres is a lot.

I am not complaining. No way. Just recounting. It is hot, buggy and grassy right now and my mowing time sure cuts into time i might spend making videos, or keeping up with social media.

If i do not do my share of mowing and keep up with it, I would not be able to catch back up. So after I ride and teach, and handle the day to day issues with the crew, I am on the mower till dinner.

I do like mowing. I love the sun so I get my vitamin D. My brain gets to relax as I listen to music or just sort all the many thoughts in my head. I do love the way the fields look when they are freshly mowed.

All is good here folks. I ride and teach and then I mow and sleep and do it again.

So I will catch up when I can…

For all you mowers out there?

I get it..

Summers in Florida keep you busy!

Cheers folks!

08/24/2026

Victoria started following Shadow back when Shadow was skin and bone and could barely put that leg down. She stayed with us through all of it. The surgery at UF with Dr. Kadic. The thirty five days our girl spent up there before she could come home. The months of stall rest after. The cast changes that were hard to watch, and she watched them anyway.

Last Wednesday, she and her mother drove three hours to meet her.

She brought a box of treats for the horses and a box of balms for the team, and she hauled that box around on the golf cart for the whole visit in near one hundred degree Florida heat. She fed carrots and peppermints down the entire row of stalls. Sadie took her all over the property and by the end of it she had met about fifty of our horses.

Shadow was wearing the halter Victoria sent her. Silky light coat, full belly, standing in the sun.

Then Victoria went home and wrote the whole day down. She called it From Rescue to Redemption. The link is at the bottom and it is worth your time.

A year and a half ago that mare had nothing left. Today people drive three hours to say hello to her. That was you, folks. Your donations, your prayers, your refusal to look away.

Victoria's Naturals is giving back to the rescue now too. We are grateful.

On behalf of all of us at the rescue, thank you for your support and sharing your story.

https://www.facebook.com/victoriasnaturals

https://www.victoriasnaturals.com/post/from-rescue-to-redemption-shadows-journey?fbclid=IwY2xjawT5G4FwZG9mBWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkEDIyMjAzOTE3ODgyMDA4OTIAAR4ajBwHFdZsZm-CnYCvvAlrzM41MI4lQszWHzcXUPH4hRlVgRFH5_KwAMsRLA_aem_reZdp5e4nzsqBs8EbTxKqA

I had only been following Horses Without Humans Rescue for a short time when Shadow arrived. I watched a video of her trying to walk, and I literally cried. Her story stayed with me—from her rescue and devastating leg injury, through surgery and 35 days at the University of Florida, to the incredi...