Now available. Beautiful photographs of the horses at the rescue by photographer Suzanne McAndrew. Suzanne was kind enough to travel from Buffalo to photograph our rescue horses. She has won several awards and has a great talent for capturing the soul of each horse with her camera. She has spent many hours editing each photo to her satisfaction and is letting the rescue use them on our website but each photograph is copyrighted by Suzanne. You can see her incredible and very moving work by clicking on the link below.
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Summer has come and is just about done. It has been a hot one with a lot of humidity. It has been a bad year for the horses. We lost four. Two were not expected. Tramp died in early June from an apparent heart attack. There was no sign of a struggle. I checked him at 4:00 AM and he was in his shelter as usual and at 8:00 AM he was gone. One June 26th, we put Lite Shadows and Cookie down because of the pain they were suffering from their feet. Neither one wanted to go and they fought until the end but it was the kindest thing we could do for them. In August we lost Honey which was a total surprise as she was so healthy. It was right after evening feeding and she was eating her hay when her head came up and she spun around a few times and then flopped down. She got up again and spun a few more times and then flopped again. This time she went through the Electrobraid fence into the next pasture and laid still. I tried CPR by jumping on her chest but she was gone. It was all over in just five minutes. I dragged her out of the pasture and covered her with a tarp. The next morning as we were preparing to bury her we pulled off the tarp and she had bled through her eyes, nose and mouth so we suspected an aneurysm. It was a freak thing and we had no warning. Judy put some orange flowers on her grave in rememberance. So many in such a short time. They are all buried next to each other and Shad and Cookie are buried together I hope we are done for the year.
We do have some good news. Our lawn mower is now working and we have had two new weed whackers donated. One is a Huskvarna and is a professional model and works wonderfully. It has really been getting a workout this summer. The open house was very slow this year. I think we scheduled it wrong. The Attica Rodeo was going on and so was the Park Fest in Rochester. We made a little money but not like before. We may have to go back to holding it in September or late August. Mike and Chris Dodge
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