Thursday, July 07, 2005

Wild Horse Spirit

Raking and shoveling manure is fun when you're surrounded by rescued wild horses. That's one thing I learned at the Wild Horse Spirit sanctuary. Last week I helped out for a few hours and met Bobbi and Betty, who run the sanctuary and Amanda, a great young woman who volunteers many hours each week to work with the horses, even though she is going to school and has a full-time job.
These three women (and their friends) have put their hearts, hands, brains and money into saving wild horses.Although they believe wild horses should run free, these horses might not have survived if they continued living in the wild.
On their website WildHorseSpirit.org you'll read some amazing real-life rescue stories which make fiction seem tame.
I have to admit Red was my favorite (you can see him on Wildhorsespirit.org's "Meet the Spirits" page) because he really kept an eye on me, standing between Bobbi and Amanda whenever we stopped to work. He did let me brush him later, though, and so did pretty Mona.
If you're ever in Reno, Nevada, the sanctuary is only a few minutes from the airport and visitors are welcome.

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