The group was first introduced to Rehorse when they volunteered at Bridlewood's Horse, Art and Wine event over the past summer. They were so moved by what Raquelle and her team was doing with abandoned, injured and mistreated horses they wanted to help in any way they could. To learn from the ground up they chose to spend a day at the ranch helping Raquelle with all of her rescued horses.
They moved hay, shoveled stalls, blaketed animals and helped where needed.
Megan Borzone, President on Copper Hills 4H said that the most fun was "learning about the stories behind each horse and seeing the amazing progress they have made while at Rehorse Rescue." She said the biggest downside was realizing that "people can be so cruel to such beautiful and innocent animals." The children were able to see before pictures of the animals that they worked with and were hurt by the way they had been treated but were glad that there was such a place as Rehorse to save them. Megan herself had an opportunity to do a little bit of doctoring when she helped doctor an abscessed foot on one of the horses named Max.
According to Megan the group plans on making this a more frequent event and many in the group have opted to spend some of their family time there also.
The group that attended was: Megan Borzone, Kim Borzone, Mandy Cox, Alyssa Mann, Savannah Durkee, Netty Durkee, Katrina Rennie, Pearl Rollings, Maggie Rollings.
For more information on Rehorse Rescue visit http://www.rehorserescue.org/
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Charity Maness