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Freedom Reins

Owner/Founder - Christina Hays
A 501c3 non profit horse rescue based out of TX. It started with two rescue horses that fell into our hands.
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Freedom reins was founded on the idea to help make a difference in the lives of horses. One had been abandoned and one was slaughter bound. Recognizing these are only two out of the hundreds of thousands of horses enduring what they did each year. These two horses touched our lives and made us realize we could and needed to do more. With this company we can make cute, comfortable clothing while sp

reading awareness and raising money to save neglected and slaughter bound horses and give them the second chance of a forever home. Help us make a difference!

08/01/2026

I feel like I’ve been living in a bad dream… 💔 Queenie is doing okay. She is stable & bright. There isn’t an exact answer to why she can’t get up, but there are a few things that probably all contribute. The biggest being xrays show she has chronic disc degeneration & osteoarthritis in her lumbar. This isn’t totally unexpected at her age, but the vet doesn’t think she will regain full function in her hind end.

She is getting supportive care & is on a fentanyl patch right now to ensure she isn’t in pain. As long as she remains stable, I plan to bring her home Monday so she can spend her last days with Nina, Sebastian, Dorothy & Penny. Then I will have a vet come to the property to euthanize her. She would rather be home. I tell her their names when I visit her & she gets so excited & moos.

She’s still so engaging, bright & aware. I brought her her favorite grain (Fibrenergy horse feed) which she enthusiastically ate along with some cookies. Nina takes after Queenie in almost every way - her beauty, her intelligence, her determination, her strong will, her love for food lol. Anyone who meets her, loves her because she is so unbelievably kind & gentle (Nina did not take after this trait lol).

I love the horses, but anyone who knows me knows my cows are my world. I don’t want to think of a world without Queenie. I know she’s old, but I thought we had more time. This has been one of the hardest weeks of my life.

Queenie isn’t a rescue, but like Nina she is part of the rescue. She’s here day in & day out with me & the horses. I’m not asking for help with her expenses, but I’m asking for help with the horses vet/hay bills so I can be fully present with her in her last days with us.

We have a lot of ground to cover for the $10k knockout fundraiser & any help with this or hay this week means more than I could ever express with words. I will never get this time back with her.

•venmo - freedomreins
•https://donorbox.org/freedomreins

07/23/2026

My sweet Sarah 💔🌈 One of my worst
heartbreaks & saddest goodbyes. We lost her in July of 2024.

She was just a baby & she was Regina's baby. Sarah had been left in the wrong pasture by a volunteer one day & she jumped the fence to get back to Regina. When she jumped, she got hung up somehow & fractured her hip socket.

She had made it to Regina's side when I saw her. But when I looked at her standing a bit odd/quietly in the pasture from a distance, I knew something was wrong. I couldn't tell where her pain was coming from, but got her to A&M right away. We tried to sling her, but her fracture displaced while in hospital. They told me to get there as soon as I could & that they had her fully anesthetized.

I'm usually very realistic when given grave prognosis, but I broke down... I begged. I begged if there was anything we could do to try to save her even if the chances were slim. I got multiple opinions from surgeons all over on my way there & there was no saving her.

While I usually have A&M handle their body post mortem, I wanted to take Sarah's body home to my dad's property. I wanted to see her in a field... not a hospital. I had to do it all alone which was difficult, but she was laid to rest in peace.

I miss her everyday. I miss her every time I see her twin, Diamond, who is thriving. Sebastian, who was the third rescued with them is also doing well. Life is so short & I just wish I would've kissed her more & hugged her a little tighter each day she was here with us. She was loved immensely though. That is without any doubt 🌈

We currently have a vet balance of $61,129.09. Our goal is to pay down $10k of it by August 1st with 1,000 supporters giving just $10. So far 179 have stepped up. If you feel pulled to help ➡️

https://donorbox.org/the-10000-knockout

07/16/2026

The urgency of saving their life ends, but the promises don't.

Our rescues vet balance is $61,129.09. That number is the can't sleep at night type of overwhelming, but this campaign has one clear, achievable goal: pay $10,000 of it in 14 days.
We are asking 1,000 people to give $10.

This balance reflects ongoing veterinary care for the 50 sanctuary horses who depend on us, along with temporary boarding for our special needs horses at our vet during the move to Austin. It represents care & safety every day after the initial rescue.

Humphrey peacefully drinking while the birds sing is exactly what rescue is. When the dramatic moment of their initial rescue ends. The responsibility does not.

No one person has to solve $61,129.09. But 1,000 people can solve the first $10,000 together.
For the next 14 days, we're fighting to knock $10,000 off that balance. If you have followed these horses, loved their stories, or believe that being rescued should mean safety for life, please give $10 or more today & be one of the 1,000.

We will share our progress throughout the campaign & show the payment made toward the veterinary balance.

1,000 people. $10 each. 14 days. Let's do this, so we can keep saying yes to animals that need us.

LINK TO DONATE: https://donorbox.org/the-10000-knockout-2

07/11/2026

Swipe to see Munchie’s transformation 🤩

Munchie (formerly Declan) came to us as a yearling in October of 2023. Another rescue had bailed him, found him a wonderful foster, but then failed to continue follow up care for Munchie leaving the foster with a stud c**t who needed expensive orthopedic surgery, ongoing treatments & rehabilitation. All while they continued to bail more horses. A caring follower, Jennifer, who donated for that rescue to save Munchie initially connected me with Munchie’s foster. I then contacted the rescue & was able to get Munchie signed over to us.

This post isn’t about that rescue or to talk about them, but it’s a huge part of Munchie’s story & why ongoing care is so important. Munchie’s foster, was a dream & Munchie’s angel.

We had a shipper bring Munchie to our rescue. From there he went to my vet in Dallas. He spent multiple months there for his initial workup/treatment for his lameness. He had OCD fragments in his left hock & right stifle with effusion in joints on all four legs. He went to Texas A&M for his castration & an arthroscopy to remove the large OCD fragments. The left hock has improved with injections & was not a source of his lameness, so we elected to only remove the fragments in his stifle to reduce his time under anesthesia. Although the fragments were removed, the joint already had significant, irreversible damage.

Munchie is a hospice horse. He requires ongoing medical management to stay comfortable. He will never be a riding horse or 100% sound, but he is pasture sound & lives the fullest life. He has a larger than life personality & brings havoc & laughter to everyone who meets him ❤️

I am so grateful for our donors & supporters. None of this would be possible without you all 🫂

07/08/2026

Despite how cruel humans & the world have been to these horses, they never stop trying. For communication, for a better day, for love & for peace. We could all learn from them 🤍

07/03/2026

Huey was rescued in September 2022. He was listed on Facebook for $200. A woman saw him at a house & was desperate to find him a rescue. She convinced the man who owned him to let him go for $200.

He was local. I had just euthanized Leroy at A&M that day, but I knew Huey needed us. I left the vet hospital heartbroken from Leroy & drove straight to Huey roughly 2 hours away.

When I got to the house, Huey was dragging the man across the front lawn - completely out of control. It turns out he was a stud & he also was blind in one eye. We managed to get him in the trailer & I took him home.

He had really poor manners due to the testosterone. He was too emaciated to be put under anesthesia, so we had to wait a few months before he could get gelded . I worked with him a lot in the first few months, so that he was manageable.

Once he was castrated & healed - I turned him out with the wild mares. He was not aggressive. Just very impulsive, loud, crowding & persistent. He needed strong leadership to learn boundaries & herd etiquette.

Today, he is calm, kind & polite. He still lives with the same group of wild mares. He’s been accepted into their herd & has all the things he was never given before rescue.

Our rescue goes through roughly $2000 of hay per week. It has been a rough month as we’ve had over $10,000 in vet bills alone this month. If you are able to donate even $1, it helps us continue our mission & continue helping horses in need ❤️‍🩹

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07/02/2026

The sweetest donk to ever live ❤️

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Spring, TX
77388

Website

https://www.foreverfreedomreins.org/

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