 And so it continues........ This morning I received an urgent call. There are 5 orphaned foals waiting for us to pick them up. Of course I had a few hours to say yes or no, and a few hours after that to actually get them. We were not given any opportunity to save any of the others. So, once again plans are changed at the last minute. Luckily Matt has delivered all the 44 that were not going home with us. Mel is sharing her place with us and babysitting our stallions and other kids waiting to go to NV. We have the rolling foal hospital with us today, (with the orphan SKY and the injured filly Kahlua with us for 24/7 care.) Matt was doing his pre-trip check when he noticed one of the tires starting to fail. They have good tread, but we have been running on them non stop for the last three years since we got the trailer. So once again, lots of unexpected expenses. New tires, saving and vetting the foals and milk powder and pellets etc. etc. for the new kids. But when God puts it in front of you, all you can do is say yes and do your best. So we are back in emergency mode. Thank you to all of our CHILLY PEPPER FAMILY! Without you, none of this would be possible. Again, I have to say this was a bit overwhelming, but with your prayers, love and support we will "git 'er done". God bless and thank you so much for sticking by us and saving these lives. Pictures will follow. Please send lots of prayers for safe travel, the support we need and for Kahlua to feel better! Below, Sky enjoying a break at one of our "free" campsites close to Yakama. :) Sometimes being frugal is just plain beautiful. lol  If you want to help You can go to You Caring - to help us keep saving lives..
You can go to Paypal - [email protected] or go to www.chillypepper.org if you would like to help these horses. You can donate via check at Chilly Pepper - Miracle Mustang, P.O. Box 190 Golconda, NV 89414 You can also donate via credit card by calling Palomino at 530-339-1458. NO MATTER HOW BIG OR HOW SMALL - WE SAVE THEM ALL! SAVING GOD'S CRITTERS - FOUR FEET AT A TIME Chilly Pepper - Miracle Mustang, LRTC PROJECT - Rescue & Rehab LRTC (Least Resistance Training Concepts) is a 501c3 IRS EIN 68-0434118
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 WE DID IT - One more miracle for the Chilly Pepper - Miracle Mustang Family, and that is - YOU! Each and Every Single Person who donated, shared and prayed for these amazing horses is part of Chilly Pepper. THANK YOU & GOD BLESS YOU! We were extremely lucky that one of my friends stepped up and she and her husband took 14 of the stallions to their place for foster care. They will be helping us get them gelded and gentled so they can be placed in their forever homes. So now I will only have 14 stallions at Chilly Pepper LOL. I cannot begin to thank everyone for stepping up. We did not raise enough funds for the gelding, but for now they are safe, and that was definitely the most important aspect to worry about. We will just have to deal with that when we get them home. Below is Kahlua. She is a 2 year old? filly who came off the range with a horrible injury. It appears as though she fought with a branch?. She has a huge and oh so deep gash. Due to the fact it has been there for some time, the infection has spread to her chest and legs. However, she was seen by the vet and is on antibiotics and being treated. When she came through the chute, I told the guys I wanted her loaded straight into my trailer. They laughed and said "Oh - you gonna just stick a halter on her?". She had a halter on the next day while standing at liberty. She is extremely intelligent, sweet and knew she needed help. She loves to play in the hose while I am hosing her injury off and we would appreciate prayers for her. If this treatment plan does not work, or even if it works but still needs help, we will take her to our vet when we get home. THANK YOU - THANK YOU - THANK YOU for saving these 44 horses. Together (just in the past month or so) we have saved the mare and foal, 49 last time and 44 this time. ALL BECAUSE OF YOUR BEAUTIFUL HEARTS AND LOVE AND SUPPORT. Together, you are making miracles happen! However, I have been "grounded". We need to stay home and get these stallions gelded and the more of the horses at Chilly Pepper placed before we can bring more in. We have to be responsible. Once we get the 6 acres fenced it will allow for more horses to be saved. There are more round ups going to happen. So we will work as quickly and diligently as we can to get these kids placed. Thank you for continuing to help us save these lives. It takes a village.....  If you want to help You can go to You Caring - to help us keep saving lives..
You can go to Paypal - [email protected] or go to www.chillypepper.org if you would like to help these horses. You can donate via check at Chilly Pepper - Miracle Mustang, P.O. Box 190 Golconda, NV 89414 You can also donate via credit card by calling Palomino at 530-339-1458. NO MATTER HOW BIG OR HOW SMALL - WE SAVE THEM ALL! SAVING GOD'S CRITTERS - FOUR FEET AT A TIME Chilly Pepper - Miracle Mustang, LRTC PROJECT - Rescue & Rehab LRTC (Least Resistance Training Concepts) is a 501c3 IRS EIN 68-0434118  We are on scene in Yakama WA. ALL of this group can be saved, but we need a bit more help. There are 18 stallions, (instead of the 6 we were told about). So we need to raise more funds so we will be able to pull them and have funds for feeding and gelding them so we can find them homes. The vet will be here at 10:45 a.m. this morning, so we need to know who needs their Coggins (blood work) done. I have to let the vet know who we are saving. Even if we don't get enough to cover all of the gelding, if we can raise $3,000 more thousand dollars, - we will have a total of 44 horses and WE CAN SAVE EVERY SINGLE ONE. Unfortunately we were not planning for and do not have the budget for this many stallions. But with a bit more help we CAN DO THIS. LET'S MAKE ANOTHER MIRACLE! (This is it for Chilly Pepper until we have these big kids placed.) We will be able to get babies, but we need to get these homed before bringing in more large groups. So let's make this trip count!)  If you want to help You can go to You Caring - to help us keep saving lives..
You can go to Paypal - [email protected] or go to www.chillypepper.org if you would like to help these horses. You can donate via check at Chilly Pepper - Miracle Mustang, P.O. Box 190 Golconda, NV 89414 You can also donate via credit card by calling Palomino at 530-339-1458. NO MATTER HOW BIG OR HOW SMALL - WE SAVE THEM ALL! SAVING GOD'S CRITTERS - FOUR FEET AT A TIME Chilly Pepper - Miracle Mustang, LRTC PROJECT - Rescue & Rehab LRTC (Least Resistance Training Concepts) is a 501c3 IRS EIN 68-0434118  NO HORSE LEFT BEHIND! - 49 Mustangs Saved from Slaughter! Yes 49…. WE DID IT!!! Thanks to everyone who stepped up we were able to save the lives of ALL 49 mustangs we were called to help. After these mustangs are rounded up, we get a courtesy phone call and we are the only chance they have to avoid being shipped directly to slaughter. Initially we were not supposed to bring any horses back to Chilly Pepper – Miracle Mustang. But how do you look deep into the eyes of the stallions and simply walk away. CPMM is one of the few places who can take on wild stallions, and no one else was going to step up. As they stood there patiently staring at me, the decision was made. How can you walk away from horses you CAN save, and look in the mirror? Yes, it makes things extremely difficult at times, and is much more expensive as we incur the gelding costs before we can place them, not to mention stallions can be a lot of work. However, the only alternative was to look at them and say “nope – you are too much trouble – die a horrible death”, and it was not an option as we did have the capability of saving them. So not one horse was left behind – this time…. Unfortunately I have already been warned the phone will be ringing again in a week or two. But right now we need to concentrate on our orphans, and getting our boys gelded. We cannot place them without them being gelded which means none of the next group of stallions have any chance to be saved. We now have 3 babies who are on Foal Lac Powder ($149 per bag if we drive 3 hours to pick it up.) They are also on Foal Lac Pellets, ($99 per bag) and we are supplementing with Baby Goat’s milk as it is less expensive and easy to digest and has lots of fat. Add to that their hay, grain and medical care and it eats up the budget quickly. I am really praying hard that some of the monies that were “promised” for this last rescue come through. We had some folks pledge enough money to make this possible without total devastation to our entire budget. Unfortunately those funds have not yet arrived, which means our budget is nearly depleted. So until these funds are replaced, we won’t be able to save the next group. The cost of this rescue averaged about $250 (per horse) x 49, which is pretty good when you consider that covers saving them, vetting them, delivering them safely to their new homes and all fuel costs. Unfortunately, this does not include feeding and caring for the stallions or getting them vetted. We need to buy hay asap. The horses came in pretty thin and beat up and they need extra groceries. What makes things even harder is that Chilly Pepper – Miracle Mustang, (and all of YOU who helped save the 900+), spent thousands to save the horses at ISPMB. All the funds were supposed to be reimbursed when we went the second time, but we all know how expensive rescue is. It simply did not happen. So our funds were already depleted immeasurably. However, that was a successful life saving rescue for over 700 horses. There are still horses left, and we offered to place more through Chilly Pepper. However, due to things beyond our control, that did not happen. So although together we helped save over 700, as many as 100+ may face a “merciful end to their lives”. This sounds horrible, and breaks my heart, but at least none of them will face slaughter like the ones we are rescuing at this time. There is no choice of where to concentrate at this point. A quick painless end to life or a devastating trip through slaughter, where they are often butchered while still alive – the answer is clear – save as many of the Yakama ponies as we can. Kim Clark took 25 of the mares and foals at “A Little Piece of Heaven” in Idaho. She is a huge part of our success as she is part of the team that finds homes for these horses. Wendy & Mike Hanson at Mountain Ranch Equine Rehab took 8 to gentle and match up with "their person". They work with troubled youth and are using some of the wild ones for therapy for some of our amazing heroes (our beloved veterans). Kayleen and Clint, out of Oregon, took on 5 fillies and young mares to train and re-home, and we have 10 stallions and a mare at Chilly Pepper. (We like folks to know that they are actually safe!) Below, meet the newest orphan "My Heart in the Sky" aka SKY for short, with Rocky and no-name in the background (My niece is picking "no-name" out a very special name. lol) Sky is named after our beloved friend Les Stedronsky, may she rest in all God's glory. We love you and we miss you so, Les! THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS HAPPEN! We so appreciate the love and support and I am working on Thank You's as quickly as I can. We still need your help. So please let's keep saving lives. Together we are making a difference!  If you want to help You can go to You Caring - to help us keep saving lives..
You can go to Paypal - [email protected] or go to our Donate & Support page if you would like to help these horses. You can donate via check at Chilly Pepper - Miracle Mustang, P.O. Box 190 Golconda, NV 89414 You can also donate via credit card by calling Palomino at 530-339-1458. NO MATTER HOW BIG OR HOW SMALL - WE SAVE THEM ALL! SAVING GOD'S CRITTERS - FOUR FEET AT A TIME Chilly Pepper - Miracle Mustang, LRTC PROJECT - Rescue & Rehab LRTC (Least Resistance Training Concepts) is a 501c3 IRS EIN 68-0434118  We saw a miracle last week. We want to thank everyone who made it happen. Saving and placing 49 horses who were headed directly to slaughter is a miracle. Whether it was prayers, shares or donations, we saved every one of those horses and know absolutely that we could not do it without y'all. However, the phone rang again today. There are 30 so far, with another group coming in tonight. Conditions are getting harsher out there, and the horses are in worse shape. I wanted to cry when I saw who the caller was. We simply were not ready for that call. But we (all of us together) are the only hope for any of these horses to avoid slaughter. We were so happy to get most of the funds which were pledged for the last rescue effort. With those funds and the love and support from some amazing folks, we were back to a semi - workable bank account. By that I mean I can pick up the much needed hay tomorrow and the milk powder, pellets and grain for the babies. The stallions are eating double as they are extremely thin, and the other horses here enjoy getting fed as well. We also need to geld the stallions that are already here, get the rescue truck out of the shop (again), and hopefully start fencing the 6 acres that will be invaluable for saving more horses. However, this budget does NOT include another trip to Yakama. But God put these horses in front of us once again, so we need to do our best to save as many as possible. I know there are mares and foals and I should know more tomorrow about the total numbers of stallions, mares etc. I would love nothing more than to stay here and continue working on the items that we need to take care of here at the rescue, but we simply can't. So on Monday, Matt will take the "blue beast" (his 87 Ford F250 that has no turbo and does approximately 20 miles an hour up the hills while puking black smoke) and I will take "Little Mama" and we will once again make the trek back to Yakima. What we can accomplish will be a direct result of the funds we can raise in the next 3 days, and the number of horses we can safely place. And just to make things interesting, when Matt was doing a pre-trip inspection of the stock trailer, we found out that one of the tires is missing chunks of rubber. So now we have to get new tires prior to heading up to Yakima. There is never a dull moment here, and I have to be completely honest. This can be seriously overwhelming. It is really difficult to put out pleas for funding when so many folks have just been so generous. But the emergency is real, and I only have 3 days to raise the money. On Monday I will have to go and choose what horses I have commitments and funding for. I will have to tell the vet which ones to draw blood on, knowing full well the others will die a horrific and most likely painful death. Most likely we will be able to save all the mares and foals, but it literally makes me ill to think about looking into the eyes of any left behind. Last time we averaged about $250 per horse, and I am sure it will be close to the same. Again though, this INCLUDES saving them, vetting them and transporting them to their safe havens. _Matt and I stay in the trailer or camp in a tent whenever we can. Every once in awhile we need a real bed or simply have no place to camp. (Or the trailer is wet etc. etc.). We do our best not to waste money. When we were in SD the hotel bill for 4 rooms was close to $9000 for a month. We should have rented an apartment or house, but it was not up to us. (We did try to make that happen, but had to focus on what we were there for - to safely sort the horses.) So we do our utmost best not to waste funds that can be used to save the horses. Obviously there are costs that can not be avoided, but we really want you to know that we are very aware of what is happening and what the budget is for, and we do our utmost to do what is best for the rescue and to save as many horses as we safely can._ The total last time was roughly about $12,000 when all was said and done for the 49 last time, NOT including the gelding and care while the stallions are here. But y'all have proved that miracles can and do happen, and all I can do is pray for another miracle. I am not foolish enough to think that we can keep saving every horse they bring in, but obviously we want to save as many as we can. It feels so much better to pick up mares and foals as opposed to just orphans, and I am grateful for the opportunity as the prices we are paying to save 4 horses are equitable to what many would have to pay to save one out of the feed lot. So I am sending out an urgent plea. PLEASE HELP US AGAIN IF YOU CAN! And if you are one of the amazing folks who have donated recently, God Bless you and thank you. Let the countdown begin...... HOW MANY CAN WE SAVE?, and HOW MANY WILL BE LEFT BEHIND? Are there any other rescues that can step up and help with this situation? We need more help.  If you want to help You can go to You Caring - to help us keep saving lives..
You can go to Paypal - [email protected] or go to our Donate & Support page if you would like to help these horses. You can donate via check at Chilly Pepper - Miracle Mustang, P.O. Box 190 Golconda, NV 89414 You can also donate via credit card by calling Palomino at 530-339-1458. NO MATTER HOW BIG OR HOW SMALL - WE SAVE THEM ALL! SAVING GOD'S CRITTERS - FOUR FEET AT A TIME Chilly Pepper - Miracle Mustang, LRTC PROJECT - Rescue & Rehab LRTC (Least Resistance Training Concepts) is a 501c3 IRS EIN 68-0434118 |
