Mary Sterling

[Skydog Sanctuary @skydogsanctuary]

Eclipse & Survivor are home! An incredible day, drenched in love, for these two magnificent #wildhorses. They’ll start out on 40 peaceful acres with shady trees, spring water, and soon some equine company to help them settle in. Thank you for helping us restore their #freedom.

[Hanaeleh @Hanaeleh]

SAVE THE DATE!
Saturday, September 26th | 5:00 – 8:00 PM
An Evening at Hanaeleh: Celebrating 22 Years of Horse Rescue

We’re turning 22 and you’re invited!

Tickets will be available soon!

[Skydog Sanctuary @skydogsanctuary]

It's alfalfa, orchard, and Timothy grass in abundance supplied year after year by Whitaker Farms, #hay grown locally and by the same wonderful people we always buy our hay from. Thanks to donors and patrons on @patreon, we didn't even have to put up a fundraiser! Thank you!

[Skydog Sanctuary @skydogsanctuary]

When we find #wildhorses who were rounded up by the BLM, abused, neglected, and discarded like trash, we sing to them of the wild that once filled their souls until they remember the song.

[Skydog Sanctuary @skydogsanctuary]

3/ You don’t need to write a long report. Use your own words and simply tell the BLM that a) #wildhorses are protected wildlife that belong on public lands.

[Mary Sterling @fairmare]

@Fascinate_Hist Sarasota,Florida

[American Wild Horse Conservation @FreeWildHorses]

250 years later, freedom still runs wild. 🤎🐴

Protecting wild horses means protecting a living piece of America's heritage.

[Sheldrick Wildlife Trust @SheldrickTrust]

A female lioness was left in a bad way following a territorial fight. She's a member of the Sopa Pride of the Maasai Mara, and while her injuries didn't affect her ability to walk, they had already gotten infected. The clock was ticking.

Our team in the area, the SWT/KWS Mara Mobile Vet Unit, reached her and set to work. They sedated her, cleaned her wounds and packed them with green clay, and then administered drugs to help her heal.

One emergency operation later, she is expected to make a full recovery, brilliant news for a species which numbers just 23,000 to 39,000 lions in the wild today.

We established our first Mobile Vet Unit in partnership with KWS to give injured animals a second chance. Today, seven units across Kenya have attended 15,119 veterinary cases - and your donations make it all possible: https://t.co/NVpsbuFaAn

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

For the first few weeks, Hector went to the gate every morning at the same time and stood there, facing out, ears forward, waiting.

It took the farmer a while to work out what the hour meant. Then he looked it up. It was, near enough, the time the guard used to change.

The body keeps the timetable long after the job has ended. Seventeen years of turning out on the dot does not switch off because the orders stopped arriving. So the old horse presented himself, correct and ready, to a lane in Wales where nothing was going to happen and nobody was coming to inspect him, because that was what the morning had always been for.

He does it less now. Some mornings he forgets. Some mornings the grass is simply more interesting than the gate, and he stays where he is, and that is the quiet sound of a horse letting go of a war he was never told he was allowed to stop fighting.

Nelson never goes to the gate. Nelson has never been on a timetable in his life. He waits by the hedge for Hector to be done with whatever that is about, and then the two of them get on with the day.

[Skydog Sanctuary @skydogsanctuary]

The BLM has instructed horse traders to ship big groups of Sale Authority (SA) mustangs directly to slaughter rather than put them on offer as they usually do to make twice the money. The BLM doesn’t like it that their SA racket is making them “look bad”‼️

[Today in History @TodayinHistory]

Today in 1973, the greatest horse race in history was run.

Secretariat won the Belmont Stakes by 31 lengths to become the Triple Crown winner and set a world record time that has never been beaten!

🎥: CBS Broadcast

[Laiken Jordahl @LaikenJordahl]

BREAKING: We're suing the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service over their plan to give away 715 acres of a public wildlife refuge to billionaire corporation Space X.

Americans shouldn't be sacrificing their public lands to subsidize a company owned by the richest man in the world.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

A ewe died lambing in the night, which happens, and left a single lamb, which also happens, and the lamb was given to Eduardo, which does not usually happen, and is the reason there is an alpaca in this story at all.

The orphan was the problem every shepherd dreads, a day-old lamb with no mother, too small to defend, the exact thing a fox prices up at dusk. The farmer could have brought it indoors to bottle-rear, and might yet, but he tried something first, because Eduardo was in the field and Eduardo is what he is.

Alpacas guard. It is why the farmer keeps one in with the sheep, the watchfulness bred into a creature that spent thousands of years as a sentinel on Andean hillsides, the instinct to put itself between a threat and the herd and to face down a fox until the fox does the arithmetic and leaves. What the farmer was not sure of was whether that instinct would extend to a lamb that was not even a fellow alpaca, an orphan of another species set down in the grass.

It extended. Eduardo went over, did the long careful camelid inspection, the humming and the close looking, and then simply stayed. Where the lamb went, the alpaca went, at a distance of a few feet, all day, a tall watchful shadow over a small wobbling one. At dusk, when a lamb alone would have been a fox's evening, the lamb was not alone. It was lying tucked against the legs of an animal that does not run from foxes and never has.

The lamb is alive a week on, which a lamb in that position frequently is not. It thinks, as far as anyone can tell, that it is a small strange alpaca, and follows Eduardo about, and Eduardo permits this with the air of a creature who has acquired a responsibility he did not ask for and intends to discharge properly anyway.

The farmer watches them, the alpaca and the lamb that is not his, and reflects that he keeps Eduardo for the fibre and the guarding and the comedy, and got, thrown in for nothing, a creature who will mother an orphan of the wrong species through the dangerous first week because something in him simply cannot watch a small thing be undefended.

That was not in the brochure. The best things on a farm rarely are.

[Carl Bovis @CarlBovisNature]

Finally some good news from Hampstead Heath! 😀😍
This was just posted by 'swansofhampsteadheath' on Instagr*m 😊
See what she says in the next post in this thread! ⬇️
THANK YOU to all my followers who helped the issue go viral here... you made a difference! 💪👏🐦❤️😍

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

This whale has built up years of trust with this boat captain to remove lice from it’s head.

[Dweller @One_Way_Home]

If you love animals, you’ll love this video. I’m starting to realize horses are just like big puppies.

[Skydog Sanctuary @skydogsanctuary]

Flint and Pfeiffer are home safely and doing well. They don't know it yet, but the nightmare is over. They can let the fear drop away and dare to believe life will be good again, only happy days from now on. Huge thanks to #rosemaryfarmsanctuary for taking the other two wild ones

[Skydog Sanctuary @skydogsanctuary]

Look who is on board heading west to Skydog Oregon ❤️ Beautiful Pfeiffer and Flint are safe, out of the kill pen, and coming home. I am so grateful for people stepping up and pouring such love toward these #wildhorses, who were treated so badly by the BLM.

[Skydog Sanctuary @skydogsanctuary]

1/ Fundraiser. We are working to save these 4 SA mustangs with our trusted friends at #RosemaryFarmSanctuary. Thin and in horrible condition, all belonged to a family from Tallequah OK, who have taken hundreds of BLM mustangs and flipped them into the slaughter pipeline.

[Muse @xmuse_]

The timeless elegance and beauty of the Lipizzaner horses at the Spanish Riding School in Vienna.