Moses and his sister, Bambi, were in dire need of help when they were discovered by volunteers from Laughing Pony Rescue.
The lining of Moses’s stomach was so heavily lined with parasites, he required an enormous intake of food to meet his nutritional requirements. For three months following his rescue, Moses was quarantined. Without treatment, he would have died within months.
Moses defied the odds and made a full recovery. Along with two other horses from Laughing Pony Rescue, he’s found a comfortable forever home in Phelan, California. At his new home, Moses has plenty of land to roam on and has made friends with the other animals. He’ll never have to suffer from starvation or without medical care again.
Like many other horses, some of whom could not be saved, Moses and Bambi had been removed from the Yakama Indian Reservation by a kill buyer and transferred to the Moses Lake Feedlot in Washington State.
The Yakama reservation and the surrounding region suffer from an overbreeding problem among wild horses, along with a lack of adequate food and land for the animals to survive on. As a result, there’s rampant starvation and an abundance of pregnant mares. Sometimes, hay is stolen from ranchers as feed for the desperate horses.
Horses are routinely shipped out of the country for slaughter from the Moses Lake Feedlot. Rescuers race against the clock to spare as many horses as they can from death, as they scramble to outbid slaughter prices as low as $1.00 per pound.
The work of Laughing Pony Rescue is, therefore, imperative to saving the lives of these innocent horses, who may otherwise have no hope of survival at all.
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Cruelty towards animals MUST stop! Any
person abusing an animal should always be punished in the most severest way possible!!
I TOTALLY AGREE!!!!
I think animal cruelty should be banned, we have got one down here in Cornwall now, were a spaniel was kicked and thrown up in the air ok
please end all the killing
Put the blame where it belongs, on the BLM and the ranchers. They want the public grazing for their cattle or to lease out to the fracking and oil companies. Nothing means more to them than MONEY. They will NOT be satisfied until all the wild horses and burros are gone, dead, exterminated, extinct. Don’t forget, once they’re gone, that’s it, an icon of America…gone/
Lasst die Tiere Gottes in Ruhe sie gehören nicht euch ….
The poor elephant needs a sanctuary to live it’s life forever. Stop the torture of them .
That’s possible — does the article make any mention? — it’s not only cattle ranchers, it’s also those corporations who want to use the land either for fracking, passing pipelines through, etc. — who knows — BUT, removing wild horses from our public lands is a huge mistake – horses roam all around, graze up all the dry foliage, grasses, etc. — God knows, maybe this indirectly helps in NOT having all those forest fires.
Thank you.
Thank you for saving animals.
People tend to forget these Horses lived in those lands way before the HUMANS came to settle down in their land. When the deforestation take place in every side these horses have no where else to go and then get cocooned to smaller ares. That’s when it seems it looks like they are overpopulated…in truth & in fact if the land would have need freely available the way it used to be there wouldn’t be any over population.
Humans are the ones need to be given Birth Control to minimise the Overpopulation. Not the other way around…
YES — Some opinions are that, in fact, there is NO horse overpopulation as a whole — WHO is doing a head count of the horses, I ask?! — another point to make : horses love grazing — think of all the wild horses out there roaming freely, grazing away — this is very good for the environment — think of all the fires unable to live because of the consumption by the horses of the dry grasses and other foliage.
You are absolutely correct. Humans are the real problem on the planet. Having children should be a privilege not a right. Overpopulation by humans is what is killing this planet.
Are the wild horses being driven out of desirable feeding areas by ranchers who graze their animals on public land?
Beautiful! GOD bless!
Time for worldwide change
The Galarneau Family
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Thank you , Laughing Pony Rescue, for saving these horses, Love you all horses, and prayers !
Thank you to Laughing Pony Rescue the wonderful caring people that saved the lives of Moses and Bambi. Your truly hero’s. Thank you for saving as many horses as you can from the kill buyer. Wonderful job so well done.
SUPER!
THANK YOU A MILLION TIMES to all the wonderful people who intervene, day-in day-out, for these magnificent animals – you are truly doing God’s work — By the way, it is ILLEGAL (not to mention unconscionably immoral) to send horses abroad for slaughter — WHY are the decrepit monsters getting away with this? — WHERE are our legislators? — WHERE is our Government? — WHO is protecting our horses? — WHO!
People don’t know about the kill pen pipeline. A person can sell their horse at auction thinking they’re going to a decent home. Their pet is in a kill pen that night and on a truck on the way to Mexico for slaughter the next. Unwanted or overbred horses & donkeys go to slaughter in the same manner that the animal shelters kill the unwanted dogs & cats. Pregnant horses & horses with a foal at their side are slaughtered too. If you are looking for a horse look in the kill pens. Some horses are posted & they’re broke to ride gentle horses & you can save one from slaughter.
Good bless
Thank you for rescuing Moses and for caring for him.
Thank you, Laughing Pony Rescue, for getting Moses off of death row and rehabbing him, so he can enjoy a peaceful and happy life.
(“Moses and Bambi had been removed from the Yakama Indian Reservation by a kill buyer and transferred to the Moses Lake Feedlot in Washington State.” … PLEASE tell us that Bambi is one of the other two horses mentioned.)
Agreed. Would love to know of a fairy tale ending for Bambi. God bless Laughing Pony Rescue.