Posts by Mylestone Equine Rescue
Help A Horse Day 2022 – Help Us Meet Our Match!
Once again we have been extremely fortunate to be given this opportunity for a $10,000 match for the month of April! Help A Horse Day is officially April 26, but all donations made in the month of April and marked for Help A Horse Day will be matched up to $10,000! These funds are a blessing…
Read MoreHow Your Donation Helps the Horses
How do you make a difference when you contribute to meet our match? Let us tell you! You provide both routine and emergency veterinary care that keeps our horses healthy and that literally saves our rescue horses’ lives when care is urgently needed. You provide farrier care and help our horses walk comfortably, sometimes for…
Read MoreLosing Our Beloved Dakota and Phebe
This is very difficult to write. Tragically, we lost 2 of our beloved rescue horses this past month Dakota and Phebe. Dakota was the kindest horse; he was rescued in 2002 with the help of a vet when he went lame and could no longer be ridden. We loved and cared for Dakota for the…
Read MoreSummer Intern Helped the Horses
Mylestone was very fortunate to have Lucy Milligan do an internship with us over the summer. Lucy has been attending college in France, and needed to do an internship for school. Lucy’s family have been longtime sponsors for many years now. Lucy got firsthand experience of the hard work that goes into the daily care…
Read MoreBlue and Little Buddy Saved from Going to Auction
Mylestone worked with a longtime friend to rescue Blue, a blind Standardbred gelding, from ending up back at an auction. Blind horses are not supposed to be run through the auctions, but it does happen. He was used as an Amish buggy horse until he lost his sight. Blue is very well adjusted to his…
Read MoreGirl Scout Troop 82405 Helps the Horses!
Mylestone is always very grateful to kids who want to help the horses, but this year brought helping the horses to a whole new level thanks to the Philanthropic Recognition program of the Girl Scouts of NJ. Through their cookie sales and kind hearts, they raised $4,000 which was used to purchase a Horsemen’s Outlet…
Read MoreDentist Day at the Farm – 2021
October 25th was dentist day at the farm for the rescue horses. Bill Schultze, Jim Edwards, and Brian Shaw came to the farm to take care of the horses’ teeth. The day went very smoothly and they were done in about 3 hours. Our vet, Dr. Mary Beth Hamorski, sedated most of the horses while…
Read MoreIn Memory of Cloudy
We suffered the terrible loss of Cloudy this summer. He had reoccurring fevers in the previous months which they thought were tick borne, but the fevers never completely stopped. In fact, they became much worse. I also noticed in early July that Cloudy’s right eye looked different. There seemed to be changes daily. Dr Mary…
Read MoreMaggie’s Been Adopted!
We recently got an unexpected surprise; Maggie’s longtime foster mom, Laurel, decided she wanted to adopt Maggie permanently. We got the news after Maggie finally recovered from her eye removal surgery. We couldn’t he happier for Maggie. Laurel has been devoted to Maggie since she was rescued from an auction back in 2012. Maggie was…
Read MoreMissing Our Peppermint Patty
Sadly we had to say “goodbye” to our adored mini, Patty. She suffered a stroke, and although we tried medical treatment, there just wasn’t enough improvement. She had become neurological and it was hard for her to get around like she once did. Patty had lost her sparkle, and just wasn’t herself. She was close…
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