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08/13/2008- Well I hope I am finding everyone safe, healthy and happy!  Including their owners!  HA!  I have been busy, busy and more busy!  Which is good until the weekend when i want  to take a nap!  I try and fail at that most times.  I got in a 18 year old Appy gelding named Rocket, last Saturday.  Boy was he a bad boy in the trailer!  Actually getting on wasnt so bad, but he pawed, kicked and tried to rear while in the trailer!  We had his lead rope tied very short so that he would hit his head on the roof of the trailer.  He is about 15.3.  Although pretty skinny, he is in very shape.  He is settleing in very nicely now too.  He is now in with Ace and Prize.  Ace is 6 and Prize is 4.  Ace is in charge only until Rocket figures out that Ace is just a big bluffer!  And he will!  After we get some groceries into him and ride him a few times, he will be put up for adoption. He is a registered appaloosa and is very sweet and very pretty.  Not the typical, sad tail either.  It is nice and full.  He has one blue eye and one brown eye.  He is also trained to ride.  Just hasnt done so in a year or so.  I will have pictures of him on the website showing his progress on his weight.

I have been working with Destinee and Maverick alot lately.  Maverick is still a little bit head shy and Destinee loves for me to touch her anywhere!  they are both good at lifting their feet.  Maverick is scheduled to get gelded on August 23rd.  Yeah!  He should be good to adopt out sometime in September.  he is a good boy and is a typical colt!  Good personality but will be a snot at  times!

I have been weighing a dilemma that I  have lately.  Sweetheart is my 20-something TW mare who has been with me for the last 3 years. Her previous family had her for a very, very long time and gave rides to their kids and grandkids.  She is very disabled and still did this while having a fused front knee and her other leg is bowed out to compensate for her fused knee that cant bend.  She has had a good retirement with me.  Max, her 22 year old Morgan gelding companion is her close bud for almost the whole time.  Well this year, she has been moving slower.  Sometimes she will stay in her shelter and I bring her grain over to her (which she loves!) because she is sore.  She has laid down 3 times when I had to help her up.  But that was because she laid on her bad side and somewhat up hill.  Didnt take more than 10 seconds to get her back up.  But I think this year might be the year to give her up to the big pasture in the sky.  Boy, do I hate making those decisions.  Its not fair.  Why should we have that decision and power?  I know they cant make that decision and I know I must, but it saddens me to have to.  What if I make the wrong decision?  What if she is just a bit tired this year?  She still loves to bask in the sun, eat her grain, get groomed, rub her head up against me and be crabby to Max!  I guess I dont have to make that decision just yet.  Which is good, because I am not ready yet.  i think that is why we delay these decisions.  The animal may be ready but their owners are not. 

08/07/2008-  Trying to update this site every week now.  Right now I am going through a few personal issues including a divorce which was final last week. I will be changing back to my maiden name soon.  Which is Pulvermacher.  Which is better?  Ashbacher or Pulvermacher?  My mom is a Schumacher.  Can we say German Heritage?  So dont be surprised when my answering machine says Pulvermacher or my email gets changed to Pulvermacher.  It will take awhile to get used to, but it can be done!  Anyhow, I am still planning on continueing with the horse rescue.  It might be a bit smaller, but I cant quit, I just cant. 

A couple of great horse buddies and I are putting together a list of all of the rescues in the area for people who want to surrender their horses can check them out.  I will list them on my Contacts page.  That way you can check each place out. Some rescues are a bit different and you can decide which one is right for you and your horse. 

The Belgian girls have a new place to go to this weekend.  The family is going to teach them to ride and drive. Well a refresher for Annabelle and teach Daisy since she is now over 3 years old.  We wish them luck and will keep in touch with the family. 

08/01/2008- Boy, dont seem to have time to update anything anymore except Petfinder.com  - that is an easy site to manage!

I have updated my available horses page.  Although we have some untrained horses to ride, We will still be working with these horses to get them trained. the horse market is so terrible now.  You can get completely trained horses for under $500.00 now!  I get so worried that people just sell to anyone and not check to see if they are who they are.  So many horse owners getting scammed out there now. They say they are getting a horse for their kid and using them for 4-H and then taking them immediately to an auction to see if they can get more money from there, not caring if a slaughter buyer is there and buys it.  I get articles and new stories about that all over the US.  We have so many disgusting and dishonest people out there.  Well, I hope you are caring where your horses go.  So many horses get so many different owners.  Do they deserve going to slaughter after giving you and/or your family years of pleasure, rides and devotion?  I dont think so!  I would rather put all of my horses down versus take them to an auction.  IF you do take them to auction, make sure to make a point to say no slaughter buyers if you are actually worried about where your horse goes.  We need to be loyal to our horses.  If you wouldnt buy your horse, why do you think someone would?  Just saw on Dreamhorse.com a 34 year old mare that was bred!  What the heck??  Do you think it will sell easier if the horse is bred?  Do you know what kind of problems this mare could have being so old and in foal?  What are you people thinking?

A couple of us are going to come up with places and rescues around Wisconsin and possibly in the neighboring states for you to contact to take your horses if you cannot keep them anymore.  I know things come up and sometimes its necessary to give them up.  But there are options!  Dont wait until you have to move your horse the next day!  Dont wait until your horse is skinny and you couldnt afford to feed it for the last month.  Give us some time to find a home or post the horse.  I am not saying to advertise it for free either. That brings out all of the greedy, scumbags looking to make a buck!  Check out the people taking the horses.  Go and see where they live.  If they are legit, then they will have no problem letting you see their place or where they will board.  Call the boarding place!  Tell the person if they have to get rid of the horse to contact you first!  Be responsible!

More news also-  I am going to learn to drive horses this year!  I am a 40 something lady who doesnt really want to get on my horses to teach them to ride.  I can do ground work galore, but getting up there and getting bucked off isnt what I really think i want to do, so I am going to learn to drive!  Lots of folks getting into that now!  It is so much fun!

If you are interested in fostering, please let me know.  If i dont get back to you within 2 days, please call me back.  I have a stupid answering machine, it sometimes deletes 2 messages in a row and I didnt hear the 2nd message! 

06/26/2008-  Still having a couple of technical difficulties on my website.  Ok, its not the site, its the user! 

I would like to discuss today about donating your horse.  Right now I am totally full up.  More than full up.  I have had to turn down horses.  I am a very small rescue group.  Most of it, I do myself.  I have great friends who come out on Saturdays to help, but really, I do this myself.  I have one foster person, Kristin who is in Jefferson and she is fostering 2 four year old mares who are getting some rehab work first before going on the website and petfinder.com-  This economy, the fuel prices, salaries not going up as they should are making life with luxuries (such as horses) pretty hard.  I get mostly calls from people who have problem horses, not sound horses, older horses, just overall stuff that we have to work months in getting these horses to get back in adoption shape.  I tell people that its better that if you get a horse, you are responsible for it.  You should be getting training for it.  Most times when you do that, you can find a home yourself and often sell the horse.  I get calls saying if i dont take this horse now, then its going to slaughter. One thing I hate more is that statement.  Please dont threaten the rescue groups.  We are trying so hard to find homes, to take the horses in.  If I took alll of the horses offered to me, i would need rescueing!  You all know how expensive this is!  i work full time, plus some extra and will be actually renting out my basement for extra cash.  We are feeling the cash crunch also.  Everything is going up and I am getting a whomping 2% raise this year and a 1% next year.  Everything is costing more.  But also dont wait until the horse has been not been fed for a few weeks or months.  Contact the rescues in plenty of time so that if we cant take the horses we can try to find someone else to take them.  Often we contact each other to take in horses and also horses to adopt. Often i dont have dead broke horses but other rescues might.  I dont care where you rescue a horse from, just rescue one!  Dont breed anymore!  This sounds horrible, but for goodness sakes, spring for the cost of putting your horse down and then either bury it yourself or call for a rendition truck to come out.  That is no longer your animal. It is a carcass!  I would rather you euthanize your horse then take it to slaughter.  Doesnt your horse deserve a dignified ending to his/her life?  I guess I would much rather, you keep your horse even if its older or disabled or cant get pregnant anymore or not sound.  I have a TW horse that gave rides to the grandparents, parents and their kids for over 20 years!  She has a fused left front knee and had to compensate with her front right and that bows out!  they gave her up after 20 years of giving them pleasure and rides.  If you have your own place, why not just let your horse stay and let them just retire and enjoy the rest of their life?  Makes me so upset when i hear stories like that. Some day, i would love to take all of these 'unwanted' horses and just give them a retirement home with good food, water, shelter and love.  I really would. But man!  What an expense!  While I do not mind, I can only have so many.  With my foster homes, I have 14 at home, 2 in Cross Plains, 2 in Jefferson and 1 at another place.  Thank goodness for summer and grass!  Saves me a bunch!  Ok, i am off of my soap box.  These are only my opinions and views.  I just wish that people would be more resonsible when they get an animal.  its not like a car or an inadement object.  They cant take care of themselves.  Just be compassionate! think about it before you get an animal and what you want it really for.

thanks!  Jenny

Please consider donating to my horse rescue!  I will be able to send you a receipt and you can now take it off of your taxes!  Its been a long haul but finally here!  If you have anything you would like to donate, please contact me.  I can come and pick things up.  If I cant use them for my horses, then I can always sell them at tack sales to buy the things I do need. I would so appreciate it!  Any questions, you can either call or email me.   Check out my blog/diary on this website.  Hopefully I will be able to keep up on it!

THANK YOU SO MUCH TO THE AMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION!  WE RECEIVED A GRANT TO HELP WITH VET COSTS FOR BREEZE (NOW NAMED SHADOW), HONEY AND MAVERICK!  WE RECEIVED $1361.00!  ALL MONEY WENT TO MY VET BILL ON JUNE 17, 2008!  THIS GRANT WAS ACHIEVED WITH THE HELP OF MARY ELLEN MILLER, A GREAT FRIEND THAT I MET AT THE MIDWEST HORSE FAIR IN APRIL 2008.  WITHOUT HER HELP, I WOULD HAVE NEVER KNOWN ABOUT THIS GRANT.  MORE DETAILS TO COME!