Category Archives: Horse Rescue

When COVID-19 tore through the country last year, Erin Clemm Ochoa, CEO of Days End Farm Horse Rescue (DEFHR), Woodbine, MD, initially suspected that the financial impact of the virus...

In May 2019, an employee of a fuel company arrived at a farm in Carroll County, MD, for a routine visit to fill a fuel tank behind a barn. In...

While many people looking to adopt a horse find themselves searching for a riding partner, the trend of adopting a horse as a companion-only is one that continues to grow...

Horses are inherently herd animals. When you go out West, for example, you’ll see large herds surviving on their own, but this has left many with a misconception about horses’...

In the midst of a pandemic, nobody wants to think about a second quarantine. But New Hope Stables is locking down and not for the coronavirus. Several horses at the...

On a sweltering hot day in July of this year, employees of Days End Farm Horse Rescue (DEFHR) arrived at a property in Harford County, MD, expecting to assist animal...

California is spending another summer beneath a canopy of smoke as wildfires continue to ravage communities statewide. Many equestrian facilities have found themselves in the path of the fires’ destruction—Rockridge Equine Rest and...

When Days End Farm Horse Rescue in Woodbine, MD, began more than 30 years ago, it was with the mission to not only save horses, but to teach others how...

“Domino” the piebald Breyer horse perches on a shelf in Sigrid Haines’s law office and watches her study legal files. Haines is a partner at Whiteford Taylor Preston, LLP in...

It’s not often that a horse has had a million hands pet him throughout his lifetime, but for Officer Barney, a retired mounted police horse, that number is no exaggeration....

On August 19, 2015, when staff from Days End Farm Horse Rescue (DEFHR) first laid eyes on Quest, a tiny emaciated grey stallion, they were shocked. The pony’s curled feet...

As the world navigates through the turmoil that COVID-19 has left in its path, many equestrian organizations are working to come up with solutions to maintain the care of their...

Seven years ago, Larisa Quirk was feeling frustrated and disheartened with her recently adopted mare, Starbucks. The spicy Thoroughbred had a taste for speed, and Larisa’s plans to point her...

When Leigha Schrader first laid eyes on Slick, she felt sorry for the scrawny two-year-old colt. He was malnourished with a neck as skinny as a toothpick and infested with...

Kim Ellis lost her beloved mare in early 2016 after Equine Protozoal Myeloencephalitis (EPM) cut their partnership short. So, when she began searching for another horse later that year, it...

When Baker Bean first arrived at Days End Farm Horse Rescue in October 2006, the scrawny, malnourished two-year-old Appaloosa colt more closely resembled a crippled foal than a two-year-old. The...

Over the years, I’ve developed a fondness for rescue animals. All three of my dogs are rescues, as are several of my cats. And since the area where we live...

I awoke Friday morning and just stared at the comments. I'd spent the previous evening in a state of distress; a state of overwhelming fear, sadness, and this sick sense...

Every once in a while we meet a truly remarkable person; a person with a special gift and the ability to carry it out. They are humble, self-deprecating, and like...

Sweeping across the Gulf Coast of Texas over the past weekend, Hurricane Harvey’s catastrophic flooding has put the Houston and surrounding area in a state of distress, and conditions are...