 Above are some of the babies from the last trip. It's Saturday, and we JUST NOW got a call from the shipper. We have 48 hours to be there to pick up a MINIMUM of 14 of this year's babies. They will be older kids, but how do we say no, you need to ship them???? So it is going to be up to y'all if, and how many, we can save. The last group was underfunded by about $2000, but luckily we received a grant from Giant Steps Foundation who covered the balance still owed for that rescue. They also gave us a grant for the additional nursery building we so desperately need, our wild horse chute and to help with hay. THANK YOU & GOD BLESS YOU, GIANT STEPS FOUNDATION. However, these funds can ONLY be used for what they are specified for, and they are needed explicitly for those items. So that leaves us in a critical situation. There are absolutely ZERO funds available at this point to pick up another 14+ weanlings. We will also need to pick up a 3 month old as well, and were warned the numbers most likely will increase before we get there. But we know FOR SURE, there are 14 youngsters who are easily large enough to ship, waiting for all of us to come together once more and save their lives. If we are not there in 48 hours with enough funds to purchase, vet and transport the 14, they will ship directly to slaughter. We have a home for 6 of these kids, but there will be at least 9 we have to bring back to Nevada. We need your help to save these lives. We are full already, but of course Matt and I are already hooking up to save as many as we can. We are exhausted, but we are not going to be the reason they ship to slaughter". It is up to all of us if we are going to save them. This is definitely not the way we want to start winter, but I truly believe that if God puts them in front of us, we have to do our very best to try and save as many as we can. Unfortunately, after this rescue we will have no room for more, unless there is an orphan who needs critical care, or we can place the babies coming home. Fortunately, we only have 4 babies on site today. The rest have been adopted. PTL! So please, let's come together one more time and keep these youngsters safe. It is bad enough their families have already been shipped as of today. Thank you for all the love and support and all the lives you've saved! We could not do this without you! To our monthly donors, Due to joining WIN, our tax ID number changed. We appreciate all the ongoing support and are asking you (with love and appreciation) to please transfer it to the new Paypal - Palomino@chillypepper.org as we will be closing the old paypal acct. Thank you so much for being part of the Chilly Pepper family.  If you want to help You can go to You Caring - to help us keep saving lives..
You can go to [Paypal](https://www.paypal.me/WildHorsesinNeedUS 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 PLEASE MAKE CHECKS OUT TO "WIN", as Chilly Pepper's bank account is now under the name of our parent company 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, WIN Project - Rescue & Rehab _We are now part of the WIN Organization WIN (WILD HORSES IN NEED) is a 501c3 IRS EIN 55-0882407_
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1 Stallion lost, Another one Saved - 10+ more lives on the line - URGENT HELP NEEDED FOR THOSE 10+10/18/2017  THE STALLION ABOVE IS SAFE AND ON THE WAY TO CHILLY PEPPER - MIRACLE MUSTANG! THANK YOU to each and every one of you who donated, sent prayers or shared our mission. It is an impossible task but because of your amazing hearts so many lives have been saved. (Proper thank you's will be coming but it has been non-stop babies and rescue. Thank you for being patient.) 11 More Lives were saved this last week. Sadly, upon arrival to pickup the horses we were told the Stallion had shipped. As tears slid down my face I wondered how it could hurt so badly to lose a horse you had never met. But the pain was real, and so was the overwhelm. But this week, we received a small miracle. Thanks to the work of Thunder Mountain in WA, enough time was bought for the stallion pictured above to be saved. He is currently on his way home, and should arrive with two Belgian x Colts we rescued. Both of these colts are special needs, and one of them has a very large heart murmur on both sides of his chest, and the vet thought most likely he has a hole in his heart. So we have 3 special needs kids heading home and they should be here tomorrow. Once again I stared in disbelief as the number showed up for "orphan foals". Normally this would all have ended months ago, but as I picked it up I got the news that we have the chance to save 10+ who otherwise will ship straight to a horrible end. At this point we are pretty much full, but we need to save this last group before the snow gets here. We are expecting snow later this week, but Matt will be arriving home tomorrow, dropping off the 3 in the trailer, and heading straight back up to WA in order to pick up the LAST big group of the year, IF we get funding for them. _It seems like its always the same old story. But every life counts and it is the cold hard facts about rescue. It cost money to save these lives, and no one can do it alone. Thank the Lord this should be our last big trip for the year. It has been a long and extremely exhausting one, especially because it started with 3+/- months in South Dakota. The new kids at Chilly Pepper - Miracle Mustang!  If you want to help You can go to You Caring - to help us keep saving lives..
You can go to [Paypal](https://www.paypal.me/WildHorsesinNeedUS 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 PLEASE MAKE CHECKS OUT TO "WIN", as Chilly Pepper's bank account is now under the name of our parent company 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, WIN Project - Rescue & Rehab _We are now part of the WIN Organization WIN (WILD HORSES IN NEED) is a 501c3 IRS EIN 55-0882407_  THE EMERGENCIES JUST KEEP COMING. About an hour ago I got the call, and it was even shorter notice than normal. We have 24 hours for Matt to get to Yakima and save 11 orphans and a mare & stallion. Our budget is completely tapped, but we have to try. I don't want to be the one who says "no, we can't get them, send them to slaughter". It will cost roughly $3250 to save them, get the blood work for the Coggins test, the Health Certificate and the brand inspection. (The average cost is usually about $250 per horse including transporting them to NV). But this does NOT include any money for hay, grain or milk for the little ones. We simply CANNOT raise funds to "save" them, without having some funds for feed and care. It is not responsible and we already are close to max numbers at Chilly Pepper. It is so disheartening for the roundups to still be going on. But now it's up to our entire Chilly Pepper family. HOW MANY DO WE SAVE? HOW MANY GET LOADED ON THE NEXT TRUCK OUT? THESE BABIES NEED YOUR HELP! We simply cannot do this with our current budget. Once they are safe, they will need gelding, feed and vet care until we can find them a home. At some point we have to say "no", and unfortunately we have been. However, we are the one rescue that is allowed access to these particular babies, so all we can do is our very best. They have no other chance. Please help us save these babies and the mare and stallion. Matt will be on the road about 4 a.m. The number of horses we save will depend on the funds Y'ALL raise. I will be staying home with Hope and Gypsum. They have been a huge roller coaster ride and are definitely not out of the woods yet. We still need prayers for them. The vet was here today and we are very hopeful, but all we can do is "one day at a time". THANK YOU TO EVERYONE who donates, sends their love and prayers and shares these updates. Honestly Matt and I are so past "ready for a break", but if y'all want to save these lives and help us care for them until they have a home, we are willing to keep going. As tired as y'all are hearing about the "emergencies", you can be sure Matt and I are also tired of the phone calls and running 24/7. However, if we don't stand together to save these lives, who will?  If you want to help You can go to You Caring - to help us keep saving lives..
You can go to Paypal - Palomino@chillypepper.org 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 PLEASE MAKE CHECKS OUT TO "WIN", as Chilly Pepper's bank account is now under the name of our parent company 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, WIN Project - Rescue & Rehab _We are now part of the WIN Organization WIN (WILD HORSES IN NEED) is a 501c3 IRS EIN 55-0882407_  The Chilly Pepper family is sending prayers for Las Vegas, and all the loved ones who are affected by this tragedy. However, we are in an emergent type of situation here at home. Gypsum and Hope are hanging in there, and are extremely tired of all the shots (twice a day each) and the meds they are receiving. Hope's pneumonia seems to be breaking up and she has not had a fever for the last few days. Gypsum is still struggling and we need to take both of them to the vet by tomorrow for further testing. Gypsum has (hopefully had) an extremely life threatening infection. His good leg received this assessment by the vet. "The right front common digital extensor tendon had ruptured" So in addition to his contracted tendon, his potentially life threatening umbilical infection and pneumonia, his good leg is suffering. He needs another ultrasound ASAP and more blood work. We cannot wait as it could be life threatening if we do not stay on top of this infection, Hope also needs more blood work and possibly additional medication as she is still coughing and wheezing from the pneumonia breaking up. We are hopeful it is just the gunk leaving her lungs, but we have to be sure. It is always hard to ask folks to keep helping when so many do so much. But this is about the babies and the horses here at Chilly Pepper, and we are in an emergency situation at this point. We are simply "their voice" (and their private staff - literally 24/7 lol). I am grateful a good friend had reminded me in the past of how important it is to keep emergency funds available. This saved our bacon on the last trip, but we now need funding for the additional vet care and the costs of caring for so many horses just increased substantially. We spent nearly $800 on Gypsum's vet care prior to picking up the horses and saving the 9 slaughter babies. This is the reason he has a chance at life, as Doc Rodger (at Crossroads in CA) is the one who caught the deadly umbilical infection. We then spent another $1486 at the vet in Idaho (for Hope and Gypsum). The trailer repairs were $800, and we spent over $800+ on medication and Coggins for the 9 babies in Washington. This doesn't include fuel etc. for the days we were out on this rescue, or to cover the ranch care while we were gone. So it was well over $3800 in unexpected emergency costs in just the last two weeks, and we are spending over $2000 in feed for the babies and the new horses. (Many of these horses did not belong to Chilly Pepper originally). We were just asked to help place horses. However, apparently they are now "our horses". So this is where your donations are going. Without you none of these horses would be safe and most of them would already have been slaughtered. So we are looking at 7 extra adult horses to feed and care for at the worst time of year, in addition to the ones we already had. We try to be really careful and responsible and we do say "No". However, due to the emergency situation we had no choice but to pick up these horses. Some of them are in pretty good shape, but there are a few who are pretty thin. We are looking for sponsors for these ladies, and especially for Granny, an older Virginia Range horse that is now our responsibility thanks to trying to help place her. But she is such a sweet mare, so we will figure it out. There are so many crisis in our world right now, but we have to keep feeding and caring for these kids. If you would like to help us give these babies every chance they deserve, they would so appreciate it. Both of them have survived unthinkable odds, and by the Grace of God and some pretty amazing Angels, both of them are still here and wanting to run and play. Please help if you can. Each and every dollar adds up, and these beautiful little souls are gifts from God. THANK YOU FROM ALL THE HORSES! * A quick note. We moved from LRTC to WIN due to some of the projects being more closely connected. However, we are still working with LRTC and will continue to do so. Our Large Animal Rescue training (at LRTC) (and some awesome Angels) is what made it possible to save Hope. We want to once again thank Willis Lamm for helping us come up with a safe and successful plan to extricate Hope from the trailer full of wild and very anxious horses.  If you want to help You can go to You Caring - to help us keep saving lives..
You can go to Paypal - Palomino@chillypepper.org or go to our Donate & Supprt 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 PLEASE MAKE CHECKS OUT TO "WIN", as Chilly Pepper's bank account is now under the name of our parent company 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, WIN Project - Rescue & Rehab _We are now part of the WIN Organization WIN (WILD HORSES IN NEED) is a 501c3 IRS EIN 55-0882407_ |
