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Manes and Tails Organization rescues and
rehabilitates the most commonly slaughtered breeds of horses -
Thoroughbreds, Quarterhorses, and Standardbreds. A
'Secretariat' grandson, a 'Seattle Slew' son, an 'Impressive' son, and
a 'Dash for Cash' daughter are a few that have been been rescued by our
organization.
These horses had been abused, neglected, or
both. Lynn is an expert at rehabilitation. A professional
horsewoman for over 35 years, Lynn has managed farms, taught at the
college level, and is a talented, award winning rider. Under
her watchful eye and through natural horsekeeping management and
barefoot trimming, our horses have become healthy, happy, calm, and
friendly.
We use
KC La Pierre barefoot trimmers - horses
once lame have recovered fully. We also use Chiropractic and
Reiki to relieve pain and get the skeletal structure of stressed horses
back to where it should be. We have also used animal
communicators to determine the cause of some behavioral
problems.
'Bullwinkle' - a 'Seattle Slew' son - was an off
the track Thoroughbred who did not have a successful racing
career. During his life, he had undergone a procedure known
as 'sacking out' where a burlap sack is placed over the horses' head
and it is beaten to the ground repeatedly until it ceases attempting to
stand. When the horse ceases attempting to stand, the sack is
removed and the horse is then allowed to stand.
Bullwinkle weighed
700 pounds at rescue and he
was well fed and turned out for over a year so he could learn to
relax. He was fed 3 times per day and was delivered lunch
daily in the pasture. Bullwinkle had 'threshold anxiety' as
he was very difficult to load onto a trailer, and initially refused to
cross the threshold into the barn. He was terrified at the
sight of tack; he stood with legs splayed, hyperventilated, and sweated
profusely, He became hysterical when the farrier was in the barn - he
could not tolerate the smell of the forge. He was never shod,
but initially the trimmers needed assistance as Bullie was so fearful
of farriers.
Bullwinkle eventually accepted a bridle and a
bareback pad. We walked miles of figures before we attempted
to ride him. We used a Western saddle as that was clearly
different from what he remembered, and that made a tremendous
difference. At the end of his life, Bullie was doing
extremely well carrying a rider and he weighed a healthy 1200 pounds
and was beginning to put on some muscle. He was still
terribly neurotic as he chewed his own tail until the day he died.
After years of
successful rehabilitation,
Bullwinkle escaped his pasture with the assistance of his friend - 'Sahlih' our
Arabian rescue - and they were spooked by deer when grazing on the lawn
on August 17, 2001. They ran down a mile long drive at dawn
into traffic and were hit and killed. This tragic accident
was due to negligence on the boarding stable's part; the electric fence
was not 'live' that night and Sahlih knew that. He dismantled the post
and rail fence and off they went. They are buried together
with their noses touching.
Our rescue is named 'Manes and Tails'
as all that is left of Bullwinkle and Sahlih is a bit of mane and tail
from each. Due to justifiable paranoia about fencing, our
rescues are now boarded on very safe farms with absolutely no chance of
escape. As our rescues are outside most of the time, fencing
and natural land barriers are possibly the most important criteria when
selecting a farm for our rescues.
From left to right: Lynn's horse Amber,
and Ellen's horses Willie and Callie* (*RIP) Grazing on a private farm in New Jersey.
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