UPDATE: Horse Rescue Burglarized - WLOS News13 - Top Stories

UPDATE: Horse Rescue Burglarized - WLOS News13 - Top Stories   The generous offer to match any donations to Paws Ranch up to $6000 is getting close to our goal. So far we have matched $4750.00 in donations and need less than $1500.00 to meet the matched funds goal...... Thank you to all that have donated... Donations are Tax Deductable

UPDATE: Horse Rescue Burglarized - WLOS News13 - Top Stories

UPDATE: Horse Rescue Burglarized - WLOS News13 - Top Stories Help us match $6000.00 donation. We have reached $4690.00. All donations are Tax Deductible IRS 27-1964906. We are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Just $5.00 will help us reach our matching goal.Thank you to all that donate. For more information call 800.580-6504 or donate at www.pawsranch.org 

UPDATE: Horse Rescue Burglarized - WLOS News13 - Top Stories

UPDATE: Horse Rescue Burglarized - WLOS News13 - Top Stories We received a true blessing on Christmas! Help us match funds to replace our saddles, bits and tack. Just five dollars will help us reach our goal. The most remarkable phone call, has been from Atlanta businessman Jack Tarver. He and his fiance saw the story while on vacation in Highlands, N.C. and knew they wanted to help. He and his family help fun a foundation and have offered to match any donations to Paws Ranch up to $6000. "My experience has been the more things you do, the more things come back to you," said Tarver on Christmas Day. "I'm glad we're in a position to be of some help."  go to www.pawsranch.org and click the donate button on out home page.

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Horse Rescue Burglarized - WLOS News13 - Top Stories

Horse Rescue Burglarized - WLOS News13 - Top Stories, Big set back for Paws Ranch Equine Rescue rescue especially during the Holidays. If you can help please call 828-447-5899 or 800-580-6504. We need English and Western saddles, bridles, reins, feed and additional hay for the hay bank due to flooding. 

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Bostic, NC - Miniature/Pony - Shetland Mix. Meet Tinker Toy a Pet for Adoption.

Bostic, NC - Miniature/Pony - Shetland Mix. Meet Tinker Toy a Pet for Adoption. Tinker needs a wonderful home. Adopt Tinker he is a sweet boy!

Bostic, NC - Paint/Pinto Mix. Meet Princess a Pet for Adoption.

Bostic, NC - Paint/Pinto Mix. Meet Princess a Pet for Adoption.

Help Princess find a loving home!

GuideStar Exchange Reports for PAWS RANCH EQUINE RESCUE

Help our horses for the Holidays. Give through GuideStar. All donations go to rehabilitation of the horses! Just $1.00 adds up to feed, vaccinate, give dental care, farrier care and veterinary care. Your Donation is much appreciated. Be sure to check your charieties on Guidestar. Check us out at www.pawsranch.org . GuideStar Exchange Reports for PAWS RANCH EQUINE RESCUE

GuideStar Exchange Reports for PAWS RANCH EQUINE RESCUE

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Savannah and Apache

Savannah and Apache a 5 yr old Appaloosa colt building up muscle after a traumatic injury I'm February 2013. Apache has made wonderful progress from his throat latch injury from being impaled by a t-post.

Zip the pony Adopted

Olivia,Mylo and Sweet Pea

New adoptive home. Olivia, baby Mylo and Sweet Pea check out their new home. Mylo is one month old.

Busy at Pawsranch!

Busy at Pawsranch!

Olivia's colt is 1wk old!

Picked up feed for horses and stopped at IHOP for lunch with Ashlyn and Ariel.

Animal Hoarding - We need your Help!

URGENT NEED!

 

We need monetary donations, hay round or square bales, feed, fencing materials to keep the animal in, donations for veterinary care medical/dental, vaccines, wormer, and other in kind donations. We are providing care in stages due to the number of animals involved and can use business and corporate sponsors as well as kindness of public donations to help us provide care for the horses until they are ready to go to a new adoptive or foster homes. 

 The goal over the next few months is to triage and care for the mare's that are in foal and ready to give birth at anytime, geld the other 63 stallions and place and to provide care for weanlings, yearlings and other young animals and read them for adoption to lessen the herds. Urgent care will be given to underweight animal and senior horses in urgent need. These animals will be taken to PRERI and cared for.

Please find it in your heart to help with this urgent situation.

The ways you can help Your Donation is Tax Deductible:

Donate hay and feed

Donate Fence materials

Donate to Paypal - Paws Ranch Equine Rescue

Donate to Just Give - Paws Ranch Equine Rescue

Donate at any BBT Bank - Paws Ranch Equine Rescue Donation Account-Routing Number  053101121 Account Number 1340001269363

Send a Donation to PRERI PO Box 338, Bostic, NC 28018

Our Web Site  www.pawsranch.org/donate/donate

Drop of Donations off donations of hay and feed to PRERI Barn  330 Walls Church Rd, Bostic, NC 28018

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Animal Hoarding - WLOS ABC13 - Top Stories

Animal Hoarding - WLOS ABC13 - Top Stories

URGENT NEED!

We need your help urgently! We need help to feed and care for over 127 horses and cows in Rutherford, McDowell and Boone, NC. We are working with the owners so we can keep the animals on their properties while we provide vet care for the animals and ready them for adoption or foster. There is alot to be done. Due to the number of animals adoption days will be posted when horses are medically fit.
 

We need monetary donations, hay round or square bales, feed, fencing materials to keep the animal in, donations for veterinary care medical/dental, vaccines, wormer, and other in kind donations. We are providing care in stages due to the number of animals involved and can use business and corporate sponsors as well as kindness of public donations to help us provide care for the horses until they are ready to go to a new adoptive or foster homes. 

On March 1st of 2013 with help from Paws Ranch Equine Rescue, Byrd Sanctuary Equine Rescue, Rutherford County Animal Control, McDowell County Animal Control, EMS, NC State University Department of Veterinary Medicine, East Carolina Vets, Carolina Equine Hospital, Rutherford Large Animal Mobile Services, NC Horse Council, Unwanted Horse Coalition have come together to geld 17 Stallions of 63 while providing Vet Checks, Vaccinations, deworming, and Coggins on the first of many stallions to be gelded.

 The goal over the next few months is to triage and care for the mare's that are in foal and ready to give birth at anytime, geld the other 63 stallions and place and to provide care for weanlings, yearlings and other young animals and read them for adoption to lessen the herds. Urgent care will be given to underweight animal and senior horses in urgent need. These animals will be taken to PRERI and cared for.

Please find it in your heart to help with this urgent situation.

The ways you can help Your Donation is Tax Deductible:

Donate hay and feed

Donate Fence materials

Donate to Paypal - Paws Ranch Equine Rescue

Donate to Just Give - Paws Ranch Equine Rescue

Donate at any BBT Bank - Paws Ranch Equine Rescue Donation Account-Routing Number  053101121 Account Number 1340001269363

Send a Donation to PRERI PO Box 338, Bostic, NC 28018

Our Web Site  www.pawsranch.org/donate/donate

Drop of Donations off donations of hay and feed to PRERI Barn  330 Walls Church Rd, Bostic, NC 28018

Or Call 800-580-6504

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Horse tries to the beats odds

Horse tries beats odds

Skin and bones and in need of urgent veterinary care

Three-year-old paint quarter horse Cookie, Saturday, February  16, 2013, who was just skin and bones when she arrived at Paws Ranch Equine Rescue in Bostic, NC. Trauma from a horse halter that had been to tight caused her jaws to become deformed crowding her teeth with possible nerve damage that made it difficult for her to eat and affecting her eyes. Cookie will need surgical procedures at NC State University and other efforts to repair crowded teeth and other medical issues with her jaws, she has started putting on weight and is full of energy.

Bostic, NC -- The horse was skin and bones. A halter was becoming enmeshed into an open wound on her jaw. And "Cookie was smaller than horses less than half her age.

Just a three weeks later, though, her volunteer team report that Cookie is full of spunk. She'll approach strangers to nuzzle their hands and can't wait to stretch her neck and give a hug. Her eyes have that spark back unlike that forlorn desperate look when she arrived at PRERI.

"She is gaining weight and should be ready to have the first of many surgical procedures," said Dr. Rachael Butterworth-Tice, of Rutherford Large Animal Mobile Services, who performed the extraction of a fractured tooth from the roof of the fillies mouth. "She deserves the of care."

Delores Hanser, Executive Director of Paws Ranch Equine Rescue in Bostic, first met Cookie when she was barely able to stand, unable to eat, extremely underweight and locked in a car garage teetering on the brink of death.

"It was the worst combination — starvation and trauma — that one of many we have seen," Hanser said. "Her body was trying go through so many things."

Amazing, Hanser and her dedicated volunteers, the little paint horse's spirit was rekindled.

"She would come by us, and almost want to snuggle in our laps," recalled Joseph Byrd, who volunteers at Paws Ranch Equine Rescue. "She couldn't get close enough to us."

An unknown, trauma had caused the horse's teeth to be crowded and the jaw deformed . It could have been intentional, it could have been the owner kept the halter on to tight as Cookie was growing injuring her sinus cavity and inflicted pain and crowded teeth or from being startled and smashing into something.

Unable to eat normally, Cookie had withered to less than 300 pounds, half of her current weight.

"One more week, and she would have been dead," said Hanser, not wanting to name the owner, where she found Cookie. It's because they surrendered the horse and we need to still work with owner, and Spartanburg Animal Control because of the other animals on the property she explained.

Cookie's condition led Hanser to spur a team of volunteers, donors and veterinary specialists. Together — unified on the social media website Facebook and Twitter — they pressed on. First, Cookie was evaluated and started on nutrition plan and antibiotics for infection. She had a minor surgery to remove fractured teeth and float teeth to make her comfortable on March 4th $1,500,  to remove tooth fragments in her jaw.

But the infection did not clear up.

Cookie will be referred to North Carolina State University Veterinary Department for assessment and surgical treatment when her condition becomes more stable. The veterinary costs will be close to $6000.00 for her corrective surgery to repair the damage she received from her owner.

With a three-dimensional computerized tomographic scan, veterinarians will be able to see infected areas of  Cookie's skull, sinuses and jaw. The infection of the fractured teeth was literally causing holes in her jaw to her sinus causing infection to Cookie's Jaw, Hanser said.

For Hanser, Cookie's story is one of a number of equine crossing their path that she has had a hand in since she and her husband sold their California home in 2006 and moved to North Carolina to be with family.  They started the rescue in 2007 and became a nonprofit 501 (c)(3) March 2010.

But few have generated the support of cyberspace as Cookie's Plight have. "Cookie is a fighter," Hanser said.

PRERI volunteers will update the horse rescue's Facebook and Twitter page throughout Cookie's ordeal and especially during her upcoming surgeries. Hundreds are hanging on the hour-by-hour updates, she said. And anytime Cookie needs something else — her veterinary bills will top over  $6,000 — Facebook and other cyber friends came through in times of need with their compassionate donations to help our horses in need, Hanser said.

"This is what we like to do helping the horses", she said.

Dr. Butterworth-Tice DVM said she often sees horses with wounds near the jaw, but usually not as complex as this. "We had to go pull tooth fragments from her jaw and palate to get give her comfort while a surgical plan will be devised for her recovery," she said.

Butterworth and her team were able to remove the infected tooth fragments. But they found a particularly aggressive form of bacteria. Next up, treating the horse with antibiotics  to kill any remaining bacteria. Cookie was giving drug that makes the horse feel like they've had a margarita so it's easier for them to stand the surgical procedure, Butterworth said".

"We were absolutely thrilled to have her in," she said. "Horses without a will to live and big heart like hers don't make it through what she did — she just loves being the center of attention.

"She was just a sweet Little Girl."

Hanser said she is grateful she has supporters and volunteers and professionals willing to support her life's passion that started with her first horse at 14 years old: "You can look into their eyes and see their soul. They are such amazing creatures. They could kill you. But they are gentle."

Donations for Cookie can be made at  http://pawsranch.org/donate/donatemedicalcare.html or mail donation to PRERI   P.O. Box 338 Bostic, NC 28018  Cookie's Care.

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