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Rescues
Boulder Mountain
In January 2017, during one of the most severe winters in Idaho history, IHR took on our most intricate rescue to date. JD & Ryat had survived an abusive owner only to be abandoned to the Boulder Mountain wilderness to survive on their own for over 2 years. Of the dozens of original herd members;…
Dry Creek, Ada County, Rescue. October 24, 2020.
IHR received a call about two horses in the Dry Creek area that needed to be rescued. Their elderly owner has suffered from dementia and they had been on their own in the Foothills for several years, with a little help from one of her estate’s trustees. The mare, estimated to be in her late…
Payette County Rescue 10-30-2020
On October 30th, 2020 IHR met with law enforcement officers to seize two horses from a residence in Payette County. The horses had been experiencing long-term neglect and malnutrition. When we arrived there was no hay in sight, the horses were on a dry-lot and were seen trying to eat their own feces out of…
Owyhee 51
In February of 2017, IHR was notified by the Owyhee County Sheriff of a serious neglect case. The conditions these animals were forced to live in were devastating. They were chewing on fence posts from hunger, wading through knee deep feces upon the carcasses of other deceased horses & cattle that had succumbed to…
June Rescue – Owyhee County
Last week, we at Idaho Horse Rescue received more than one report of the possible abuse and neglect of five horses out in Owyhee County. We were informed that it seemed as though they weren’t getting food or water but only every few days and that no one had been around to make sure that…
Zoe’s Story (Rescued July 2020)
In July of 2020 we rescued Zoe, a beautiful and headstrong 7-year-old Buckskin Quarter Horse from Nampa. She, along with her mother Juno, her father Comanche, and her sister Babygirl had all been kept in a long narrow lot, no bigger than an eighth of an acre. The fencing consisted of old wire and weaved…