Another Chance 4
Horses, Inc.
Rescue, Rehabilitation and Placement is a non-profit 501c(3) corporation
headquartered in Pennsylvania with an international network. We have been
in continuous operation for over a decade. AC4H is a volunteer based, all
breed horse rescue.
Our Mission is
to give equines a much needed "Another Chance".
We provide "another chance" to equines (and often other animals) that are
no longer needed, wanted or useful to their owners and place them in homes
where they ARE wanted, needed and useful.
Another Chance
4 Horses rescues horses from abuse, neglect and slaughter for human
consumption. We rehabilitate and train horses for use as
companion animals, riding horses and therapy horses available to the general
public. Another Chance 4 Horses offers formal programs to educate new horse
owners with respect to proper care, management and training of their adopted
horses. We are very involved in education, prevention and community
service. Education clinics and demonstrations are to the general
public on issues such as veterinary care, shoeing, safety, training, riding,
pasture management, and neglect and cruelty to animal issues.
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First Victims of Paragallo's farm recovering at Another Chance 4 Horses
Just 14 days after the rescue of Coconut Martini,
Theonlyword, Finely Decorated and a non registered 5 year old mare from a
New York killpen, the initial victims of Paragallo's stable of neglect and
starvation are slowly showing some visible signs of improvement.
Coconut Martini, acting spunky under her hood, gently but
impatiently stomps her back left foot on the ground waiting for some human
attention. " She gives me these strange looks and turns her head as if to
tell me to stop staring at her," laughs Christy Sheidy, cofounder of Another
Chance 4 Horses in Bernville, PA where the horses are recovering. Finally,
under the thick, long matted lice ridden clumps of hair, volunteers are
finally able to gently groom her as the open sores slowly heal.
Theonlyword, the chestnut mare, prefers to rip at her hay and
then dip it in water before eating. Sheidy's 10 year old daughter, Selina is
in charge of walking and exercising Theonlyword daily and has found the
mare's sensitive tickle spot near her cheek which moves her lips in unison
with caresses by Selina.
Finely Decorated, the black mare, still maintains a gentle,
forgiving kind and patient demeanor. For now she is in isolation because of
strangles, a very contagious bacterial disease caused by streptococcus equi.
Once in the oral cavity, the bacteria invades the tonsils and colonizes in
the lymph nodes. Most horses do recover, but it is very important to follow
strict quarantine so as not to spread the disease to other horses.
Finely Decorated is reported to have been bred and possibly
in foal but cannot be palpated until her quarantine is over.
And finally Jennifer, the 5 year old unregistered mare out of
Thrift Jennifer believed to be by Danzatame ( per Thrift Jennifer's produce
report ) is already showing a " floaty trot and beautiful movement"
according to Rick Sheidy, cofounder of Another Chance 4 Horses. " She has a
consistent tilt like her head was put on crooked," Rick continued, " but it
is unclear how it occurred and without any medical records and no symptoms
so far of any neurological problems, we will just have to wait and confer
with our vet."
The horses will need continual care. There are still more
wormings and more skin and lice treatments to come. Horses that have been as
severely neglected as these four mares have to be treated very slowly so as
not to stress their systems anymore than necessary. The estimate for the
first two months of rehabilitation is expected to exceed $4000.
As these horses begin to improve, only they will hold the
secrets of their suffering; their outward appearances have given us the key.
We have become their voices now, and these horses have become the heroes.
For 20 horses who wound up suffering and then hauled to a Canadian
slaughterhouse, we were too late, but for many more horses who are silently
screaming for help on a farm which allegedly caters to the finest equine
athletes, their cries are being heard.
Another Chance 4 Horses is a 501c3 all breed horse rescue in
operation for over a decade. With your continuous support we are able to
help the horses.
First Victims of Paragallo's farm recovering at Another Chance 4 Horses
