Posted by on Dec 9, 2010 in ERF rescues | 0 comments
Yesterday we said goodbye to ERF donkeys Wilbur & Piona as they headed off to their new Guardians, Carolyn and Eddie, to live in the Gers.
When their previous Guardians found that they had to relocate with their work, they had to make the very sad decision that they couldn’t take the donkeys with them and so had to hand Wilbur and Piona back to ERF.
We are very happy and grateful that...
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Yesterday we took our lovely Vinnie to his new home in the Correze where he will now live with new adopters Helga & Paul….and of course Lulu the donkey. Helga had arranged to privately purchase Lulu from her previous owners due to their circumstances changing. Since she was local, we collected her so that Vinnie could have a companion immediately.
We currently have other donkeys looking...
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Posted by on Jul 4, 2010 in Horses, Rescues | 1 comment
We left early last Monday to go and collect Corran Ard with a fair degree of trepidation. We had no idea what we were going to find, and the cloak and dagger atmosphere surrounding the location of the farm made us wary.
We had to telephone a number when we arrived at the nearest town to the farm, and someone came to guide us there. In the surrounding fields were heavy cob type mares, many with...
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Posted by on Jun 30, 2010 in Rescues | 13 comments
Whilst monitoring the French ‘rescue’ forums over here, we saw to our dismay a racehorse from the UK, Corran Ard, at risk of going for meat.
On checking his details on the Racing Post site, we discovered that his last run on the 26th of March this year, was less than a month before his arrival on the site on the 20th of April.
His most recent trainer, Tim Vaughan, was promptly...
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We thought Nanette deserved a post all of her own as the transformation in her from the neglected little donkey we rescued in June 2008, is nothing short of inspirational! Those of you who remember Nanette will also remember the dreadful state her feet were in, they had been neglected for many years.
After x-rays were taken of her feet to assess whether she has any pedal bone rotation, the...
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Posted by on Mar 9, 2010 in Association News, Rescues | 0 comments
Sometimes we are asked to take on and rehome equines, that often for health reasons or their age, are too vunerable to be advertised for sale by the owners. Belle is one of those ponies who had some physical difficulties, probably as the result of being used as a broodmare in the past, and could therefore only be used as a companion in the future.
We are fortunate to have some excellent people...
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