Hi all,
Seems like it never stops. Shadow needs surgery tomorrow morning to remove her eye. The base cost for the surgery will be $600 plus pain meds etc. etc. She is eating and drinking very well, loves to play in her water but cannot even close her eyelids. It is like something out of a horror movie and simply heartbreaking. She appears to have zero sight in her other eye at this time but is doing well remembering where the walls are etc. She is amazing and deserves a good life.

Matt and I have been placing the orphans, and he delivered 6 to Danniell this morning. Danniell is part of the "team", and is helping us find wonderful forever homes. Out of the 6, I believe she already had 3 homed. So although I cried when my babies left, I have to admit I was so grateful as we have to get the nursery ready (temps are already in 30-40's at night) and get things set up here for our rescued critters.

IT IS IMPERATIVE WE HAVE A TEMPERATURE CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT READY FOR THE CRITICALLY ILL, INJURED AND/OR ORPHANED FOALS WE GET. So many babies die as they are left out in barns, stalls, trailers etc with "a blanket or heat lamp" and they simply cannot regulate their body temperatures. Without Mom to protect them they perish so easily and it breaks my heart as we hear about babies dying like that every year.

We still need to bring the horses over from CA and move all the panels and shelters. This was so not planned, but is obviously where God wants us.

OF COURSE I got "THE CALL!!!" just this morning. There are anywhere from 4-7 ? babies whose moms and families are shipping at this time, and we have never ever driven up there and picked up the same number. It is pretty much always higher. So now we need funds to get their blood work done, and transport them back to Chilly Pepper.

So once again we need your help. These babies have to be saved from slaughter, or being "dispatched", and Shadow definitely needs that eye removed. Her poor eyeball is sticking about 1/2" out and she cannot close her lids. She was scheduled for Friday but there was an emergency situation so she is having the surgery tomorrow.

We are so grateful for all of the love and support. This is so unbelievable that there is not even a day to catch up, (and yes, I am whining for a minute) but because of y'all, so many lives are being saved. Thank you. (I am hoping folks understand that especially with a blind and injured baby, in addition to another special needs baby, and all the big kids, I am once again way behind on my thank you's). It literally keeps me up at night as I don't want anyone to think we take even a single dollar for granted. We know that your donations are what make this possible.

Update on our beloved Dee. Although we find it impossible to wrap our heads around the "findings", Dee's death has been ruled to be "self-inflicted". Therefore we have refunded everyone's money that donated to the GoFundMe as the investigation has been closed.

The only thing we can do is keep on saving lives and we can honor Dee and her unborn baby by doing just that. So thank you for continuing to do this work with us. So many tears, but we just can't quit.....

You can go to Paypal - [email protected] or go to our Donate & Support
if you would like to help these horses.

You can donate via check at Chilly Pepper - Miracle Mustang, 34694 Sidebottom Rd., Shingletown, CA 96088 or mail a check to 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.

530 474-5197 or 530-339-1458 If you are interested in visiting or adopting one of these beautiful horses

Thank you for helping us save these babies and the Yakama adult band too!!

THIS UPDATE SHOWS THE HORRIBLE REALITY OF OUR WORLD AT THE RESCUE AND WHAT CAN AND DOES HAPPEN TO THE HORSES WE LOVE. THE PICTURES OF THE BABY AT THE BOTTOM ARE EXTREMELY GRAPHIC AND DEMONSTRATE WHY SHE HAS TO HAVE EMERGENCY SURGERY. THERE ARE ALSO PICTURES OF DEE AS SHE LAY IN THE FIELD. JUST A WARNING :( UNFORTUNATELY THIS IS THE REALITY OF MY WORLD!

As we waited for the Brand Inspector at the Wild Horse Benefit in Minden, I glanced at my phone. There were several missed calls and a multitude of texts. I opened my message and this is what I saw. My beautiful Dee was lying dead in the pasture. She had been brutally murdered. I couldn't breathe and wanted to scream. Doubled over I tried to deal. It couldn't be true. My beautiful pregnant mare who was supposed to go to her new home that very day. Gone from this earth forever. As the sobs took over, I didn't want to be here anymore. There is just so much pain and evil. The physical hurt was excruciating and I knew it just couldn't be true.

This last Saturday night - early Sunday morning, our beloved Dee was brutally killed after suffering a horrific death, along with her unborn foal.

Dee was one of the Yakama 24 we brought home late June, 2016. She spent about a month and a half with us at Chilly Pepper - Miracle Mustang, where she learned that people might just not be so bad. To our horror, that is what could have been her down fall.

Police are still investigating how this happened. The vet said that inside her head wound her skull has been shattered. A gun? A bow and arrow?, No one knows for sure. She also has what appears to be a stab wound in her side and other injuries.

We are absolutely devastated and literally physically sickened by what happened to Dee. She had come to accept people and would eat out of your hand and would spend hours playing in the sprinklers on Kim's ranch in Idaho. She had only been there for about 5 days as she waited for her adopter to come and pick her up. Danniell arrived, only to find Dee lying dead in the field.

There is an ongoing investigation http://www.idahostatejournal.com/members/police-investigate-horse-stabbing-death-in-power-county/article_267a26c7-d8d3-5a9b-92dd-cb3beda405f5.html and we are waiting for results from the autopsy.

We have set up a GoFundMe account to try and raise enough money for a reward that will entice someone to come forward. This person or persons took two lives, and the vet said Dee would have suffered horribly. I feel horrible because I taught her that humans are kind.............. I thought I saved her when we kept her from the slaughter pipeline. Now, I can only hope she had enough love and joy to make it worth it.

So while we try to go on after learning this news, I am taking care of Shadow round the clock. Shadow is a beautiful foal who was orphaned due to the roundups. Unfortunately the "new guy" didn't follow directions and she panicked, crashing so hard into a fence that she nearly killed herself. She is pretty much completely blind and seems to have ruptured her actual eye.
Matt brought her home last Friday evening. I have been treating her non stop, per our vet's instructions and we fear she is actually 100% blind, and her eye is blown and now the eyeball is bulging and sticking out of her head. She has been seen by two vets, (our vet Kaia in WA State and our local vet Dr. Bonnie Dory).

Unfortunately due to the swelling we had to wait and see what the damage was. Now we know, and it is horrific. What used to be her eye is sticking out between her eyelids to the point she cannot even close her eyes. She is on pain medication and antibiotics. Her surgery is scheduled for tomorrow at 4 pm. PLEASE SAY LOTS OF PRAYERS. We have had an overload of devastation with these horses.

Shadow's surgery will start at about $600, but that is just the base cost. There are zero options as to whether she can go without the surgery. It absolutely has to be done. She is an amazing little girl, and her buddy stays with her at night and during the day she and I are getting to know each other and bonding very quickly. Her buddy is right next to her, but since Missy is wild and causes Shadow more stress when I have to treat her, it has worked out perfectly this way. (I have been doing lots of research on blind horses and a wonderful woman from back east who has cared for 15? or so blind horses helped me greatly).

Shadow is doing extremely well considering, and she is eating and drinking and knows the boundaries of her stall and pen. She is such a love and we are going to make sure she has a wonderful life.

Of course we considered if it would be kinder to her to euthanize her, but this little girl is definitely not ready to quit.

She plays in her water trough and simply does not even seem to know she is different. Her pain seems to be very well controlled as I can clean around her eyes without adding a great deal of discomfort. Last night she came up to lay her gooey messy face on my chest and just stood there for about 20 minutes, while I loved on her and tried not to gag at the discharge on my shirt. She is amazing and needs to have a life full of love and peace after what she went through. Thankfully, the vet feels that her nerves could have easily been severed and that could also be why she does not act like she is in a great deal of pain.

But she has to have her surgery asap, as you can see by the photos below.

If you want to help You can go to You Caring - to help us save these horses.
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, 34694 Sidebottom Rd., Shingletown, CA 96088 or mail a check to 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.
530 474-5197 or 530-339-1458 If you are interested in visiting or adopting one of these beautiful horses

Thank you for helping us save these babies and the Yakama adult band too!!

GRAPHIC, VERY REAL AND HEARTBREAKING PICTURES BELOW
WARNING - THE PICTURES BELOW ARE GRAPHIC AND UPSETTING. SHE NEEDS HER EMERGENCY SURGERY DESPERATELY!!!  CLICK READ MORE TO CONTINUE

The "Land & Life Support Challenge" is going very well. We are over half way there and have received donations of all sizes towards this amazing goal. We are so appreciative as we are going through over $1000 per week with Foal Lac Pellets, grain etc., not to mention hay. We still need a little over $2,000 so we can achieve success. SO PLEASE LET'S MAKE THIS HAPPEN!

So THANK YOU!!! to all the folks who have stepped up to help us accomplish this. We have received some amazing donations and are so grateful for each and every dollar. Again, I apologize for the slow "thank you's". We have literally been working every day 'til nearly dark as we try to achieve the best set up possible here.

Together, since we came here in June, and THIS WAS POSSIBLE ONLY BECAUSE OF Y'ALL, we have saved the lives of 25 babies and 12 adult horses. You guys are amazing. We are currently sitting at 2 babies in Shingletown, 11 here and two more arriving Friday. So every time we adopt some out, more come in.

It is overwhelming, but as long as we have the funds, we will continue to do everything we can. So again, Thank You! - because you have saved all these lives in the last 2 months.

Unfortunately, the round ups are continuing and Matt is on his way to pick up more babies. The foal above is in very poor shape, and was injured quite badly. She has a severe head injury and her eye is swelled shut. Her other eye is cloudy and she seems to have extremely limited eyesight.

(No matter how hard folks try and how careful they are, there is always a chance that a wild horse can be injured when "sorting" occurs. Folks see them standing calmly and can often forget that when they are scared, they can panic and easily hurt themselves. Unfortunately this little girl did panic and we are going to make sure she gets the best care possible.)

So in addition to the normal costs to pick up these babies, we have already incurred vet bills for the injured foal. We are praying she will have full vision, but no matter what we will figure out what she needs.

So please help us keep on saving lives. Together we have accomplished major things for these horses and instead of being slaughtered and dying a horrific death, they are munching away under clear blue skies.

GREAT NEWS - The 65 Wild Horses and 7 babies born to that group have ALL been placed. Matt is delivering the last load today as I write this. All those horses saved from slaughter and no longer our responsibility to feed and pay board on. This has been a long time coming. CONGRATULATIONS! to everyone who helped get this done.

We are working on finding homes for the horses we have now, and still need help feeding, providing veterinary care and picking up the new babies.

If you want to help You can go to You Caring - to help us save these horses.
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, 34694 Sidebottom Rd., Shingletown, CA 96088 or mail a check to 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.
530 474-5197 or 530-339-1458 If you are interested in visiting or adopting one of these beautiful horses
Thank you for helping us save these babies and the Yakama adult band too!!

YOU ARE PART OF THE SOLUTION!!
COME JOIN US AND CELEBRATE WITH AN AMAZING CONCERT AND GREAT "HORSEY DAY". THERE WILL BE AMAZING ENTERTAINMENT AND YOU CAN MEET THE BABIES YOU SAVED !!!

ABOVE - Severely underweight and the one on the left has a badly infected injury right under his jaw. Both are enjoying their "cooler" behind them in the corner.

We just received GREAT NEWS from one of our Angels :) :) We have a wonderful donor who is throwing out this challenge.

She will purchase an adjoining 3 acre parcel for Chilly Pepper - Miracle Mustang so we can continue to help save the wild horses. IF, folks will step up and match the $5,000 needed to buy the land, she will "git 'er done"!!!

Her donation of $5,000 will buy the land and the "matching funds" will feed the horse kids through August. :) :) :)

You can donate below - Pls put in the notes "For the Land & Life Support Challenge". (If you can't donate, please share far and wide. You can still be part of saving these lives :) )

We need a bit over $5,000 for the month of August to feed and care for the 25 horses here in NV and the permanent residents (plus two orphan foals) at our facility in Shingletown.

We are feeding about $1000 worth of hay in NV for the month (11 adults (5? of them pregnant mares), one nursing mare with a foal and 14 orphan foals. We have several babies who are spoken for and waiting to go to their new homes, but lots of beautiful babies for adoption.
Two of the babies are in really rough shape, so they need extra prayers, as well as groceries.
The average cost for a new foal is about $300 month for milk and feed, and we have 14 of them here in NV. So that is about $4200.

The good news is that a few of them are older so once they get to a healthy weight their costs won't be quite as much.

"Saving them" is just the beginning. Now the real work begins to feed and care for them, get them healthy and find great homes.

We so appreciate all the folks who are going the distance to save these horses. We are willing to do the work, but simply don't have the funds we need without amazing folks like you. THANK YOU!!

One of our mares
that is pregnant.

She was nursing the
foal who belonged to
the mare that was shot in the head.

Knowing we were powerless to save the rest of the band, my heart is breaking, but it means we have to fight that much harder to take care of the ones that we were able to save.

If you want to help You can go to You Caring - to help us save these horses.

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, 34694 Sidebottom Rd., Shingletown, CA 96088 or mail a check to 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.

530 474-5197 or 530-339-1458 If you are interested in visiting or adopting one of these beautiful horses

Thank you for helping us save these babies and the band we were able to save.!!