May 15th, 2016
9:21am
Thank you ALL for your good thoughts and prayers! WE BELIEVE AND GUESS WHAT???
Aaleyah Belle is coming home today!
2:13pm
Elizabeth and Bri have precious cargo on board – Aaleyah Belle is homeward bound!
3:34pm
Big sigh of relief… Home! As Aaleyah Belle once said “Never give up!”
May 16th
Aaleyah Belle is doing well – thankfully! She really did grow up to be a big girl. I know Momma Sue is proud.
May 13th, 2016
10:01 am
Aaleyah Belle greeted me this morning by refusing breakfast and throwing herself on the ground wanting to roll. It wasn’t easy getting her up, but once we did so, we led her to the barn. The vet is on the way. She received IV meds as directed by the vet and I’m doing red light therapy on her now. She’s relaxing and is no longer wanting to roll. Please continue to send good thoughts and prayers.
11:24 am
The vet just left, so now, we wait and pray. Aaleyah Belle was tubed and oiled. She is comfortably resting in her stall and is waking up from sedation. Once she is awake, we will do some walking. Please keep the good thoughts and prayers coming. If she becomes painful again, we will be going to the hospital.
3:06 pm
Aaleyah got better but then it hit again out of the blue so we now need prayers to get her on the trailer – she’s refusing to load.
3:55 pm
After much cajoling and praying, Aaleyah is finally in the trailer! More good thoughts and prayers please!!!! There is no one in this whole wide world who could ever convince me that the power of prayer does not work. And I just know that there are Angels walking amongst us who come and go in many forms. Aaleyah is on her way to the hospital at UF.
5:28 pm
Aaleyah settled in at the University of Florida Vet Hospital and is being examined – they will do an ultrasound, bloodworm, rectal, etc. We will update more later.
MATCH GAME FOR AALEYAH BELLE!
Three wonderful supporters have joined together to sponsor a $1,400 Match Game to assist with the veterinary bills and hospitalization of our beloved Aaleyah Belle!
All donations up to $1,400 will be matched ~ $5 will become $10, $10 will become $20 and so on. Each and every donation is truly appreciated and please be assured that no donation is ever considered as being too small.
Donations are tax deductible and can be made via various means on our website at www.bhfer.org or via our PayPal address: bhfer@earthlink.net. If donating via PayPal, please designate your donation for ‘Veterinary Bills.’ If you select the tab for ‘Friends or Family,’ no fees will be deducted from your contribution.
Thank you all for your continued love and support and please keep our precious girl in your thoughts and prayers.
I hope everyone had a great Mother’s Day! It’s been a pretty busy day here. But we do have some wonderful news to share – it was a super great Mother’s Day for Timmie and Foxy! They have been adopted and have settled into their forever home with Judy and Bill today!
It’s really exciting – they will be doing some horse agility which I know they will love – especially Foxy!
The girls are less than 15 minutes from the rescue – I love it when they are close by! We’ll post pictures and updates – no worries there! It’s always bittersweet when they leave and I never say good-bye. They are family, always. When they land here, it’s a new start for them. When they leave here for their new home, it’s never ‘The end’ of the story – it’s only a new chapter in their lives!
We are so happy for Timmie and Foxy! I bet they think they are in heaven! No, they don’t live on beautiful grass like this 24/7, although I’m sure they would like to. They do, however, enjoy exploring their new home including the play area.
Timmie’s right eye sustained an injury a couple of days before they went home, but Judy and Bill have been super about taking care of it and keeping us updated. I truly feel the girls are more comfortable in a home of their own where they get more one on one attention. Please send good thoughts to help Timmie’s eye heal quickly.
We are happy to report that Matilda’s eye is doing much better! The swelling has gone down a lot – she can actually see out of it!
#ComeToTheirRescue #ASPCA #HelpaHorse #believe #Matilda #bhfer #CelebrateLife
Matilda, a senior mammoth mule, sustained an injury this morning that looked pretty bad. It was obvious the eye lid was ripped apart but we couldn’t tell if the eye had been injured.
Dr. Specht came out and treated it and, fortunately, the eye is ok.
After 2 hours and over a dozen stitches the injury looks much better – Dr. Specht did a great job!
Now we hope and pray it holds and heals nicely. Matilda will have at least a couple of follow-up visits from the vet and we’ll update on her healing process over the next few days.
It’s been a long day and believe me when I say we’re all ready to call it a day here.
Thank you all for your support!
#ComeToTheirRescue #ASPCA #HelpaHorseDay #Believe
We have an emergency of the eye kind! Matilda has ripped her upper eye lid apart and we can’t tell if the eye is damaged – she’s very sensitive about it. We are waiting on vet to come out. Can anyone help with her emergency vet bill? Poor Matilda! Please pray that her eye is ok!
#HelpaHorse #donate #ComeToTheirRescue #BeautysHavenEquineRescue #mule #rescue
May 14th – 21st, 2015
May 14h
What do these two now have in common? Permanent tracheotomies!
May 16th
Good morning everyone! Daisy’s full of smiles today! It’s going to be another very busy and hot day here. Before it got too busy we wanted to wish everyone a great day!
My escorts this morning. Duke beside me in the golf cart seat, Jazzy leads, JoJo stays right beside me. LOL Have a great day everyone!
Remember Silver Belle? She was also raised by Momma Sue, Aaleyah Belles mom. She’s loved. This is what helps to motivate us to keep going – happy horses, happy humans!
May 17th
I wish I could end the day with some good news but I can’t. In fact, I’d like to ask for prayers for one of our horses and his adoptive parents. Some of you may remember Cisco – an older Haflinger pony cross that came to us in 2012 from a home where the owner was a meth user. I got a call from his adoptive humans this evening – he was colicing – thought to be a twist. I haven’t heard back from anyone yet but I hope and pray he’s working through it. He’d been given fluids, etc. Cisco is a lovely soul – he keeps watch over Tia and Tess – two donkeys that were also adopted from us.
Update – we lost Cisco to colic which is a dreadful thing. Thank you Tony and Michelle for giving him a wonderful home and the love and care he deserved. Rest in peace Cisco – we love you, always.
May 18th
JoJo’s ears are still growing!
May 20th
Betsy Rose on her evening walk about.
I’d say Serenity really hit the Jackpot! Thank you Phil for giving her a wonderful forever home!
Radar ears waiting for me at the bottom of the office stairs! JoJo is a hoot!
If only all of the property could be so green. This is Frosty’s Knoll – a very special place.
The trio of donks is never very far away. Of course, JoJo is always first followed by Jazzy and then Daisy.
Cookie is doing well. She got a hooficure this past weekend from Laura Ritonia-Castaños. And one of Cookie’s best friends, Kim Furse, held for Laura. We truly appreciate them!
Well, our snowbirds are gone until the fall. We’re going to miss you Suzanne, LouAnn, and Ginny!
LouAnn having fun with Lily.
Ginny and Fancy
May 21st
Donovan is a huge teddy bear. Such a kind horse. And big. Really big.
We are scheduled to leave the rescue at 8 am to take Peaches to the hospital.
And so the work up begins. Peaches is so sweet.
Neurological tests. Peaches cooperates so well.
More neuro tests at UF.
Blindfolded tests. Need covered arena like this so bad at the rescue!
Peaches getting scoped at UF.
Peaches was pretty stressed when we got to the hospital. Katie came to help her relax. It worked.
Peaches back from x-rays.
February 18 – 21, 2015
Betsy Rose got her acupuncture/TENS treatment last Saturday. Some of her lab work came back, but not all, and Dr. Julia pulled another test (thyroid) this past Monday but we likely won’t have those results back until next week. From what we do know, Betsy’s glucose is high and her kidneys are a little stressed. But her CBC results were good. Once we get additional test results back, we will know more. She wouldn’t lay down in her stall so we stripped it and switched the shavings to pelleted bedding but she still won’t lay down in there. But in the mornings, she goes right out after breakfast and naps in the sun. She gets a hooficure tomorrow. Please keep her in your prayers.
Athena got an acupuncture treatment last Saturday too.
Athena is so pretty. We’re not sure what breed she is but there’s some draft in there. Her hock boots should be here tomorrow, I hope.
Two beautiful mares – Athena and Serenity.
Athena getting some extra attention on Monday. Wanda brought her 4H Saddlebusters Club to help out and almost all of the horses got a good and much needed grooming.
Ruby getting some extra attention on Monday. I thought she was going to fall asleep and fall over she enjoyed it so much!
Amber and Baby Ray impatiently waiting on their hay to be unloaded from the trailer a few days ago. We have to make another hay run, hopefully, tomorrow. With the cold temps, we are going through a bit more. It’s already below freezing here tonight.
Amber is such a sweet little mare – she really would make someone a very nice horse. She’s a TWH looking for a forever home.
Donovan and Bryce playing gelding games.
Baby Ray being, well, Baby Ray. I wasn’t sure how many blankets I’d find torn to shreds this morning. But I guess everyone realized how much they need them and all were intact.
Matilda proudly wears Gentleman’s blanket. I know he wouldn’t mind. I’ll never stop missing him. Dr. Mangan will be here tomorrow to check out Matilda’s eyes.
Tomorrow is a big day – Dr’s. Mangan and Simonson will be here and two farriers will be coming too. Everyone here is bundled up. We’re so blessed that the the horses all have a blanket. This is Sisco.
Guess who got their tail braided on Monday?
We are so blessed to have a dependable truck. The tractor is in the shop and we sure do miss it. It makes for more work when we don’t have it. But at least we found a local place to repair it. The picked it up last Friday and we are waiting on a cost estimate.
A beautiful sunny, but cold day!
The mare that started it all – my heart horse. Beauty.
February 20th
Aalayeh Belle – when I look at her I see Momma Sue through and through. She came up to have a knee injury checked while Dr. Julia was here.
Matilda seemed so proud of herself today when Dr. Mangan examined both of her eyes and she even allowed him to flush her tear duct without any sedation! The good news is that the issue in her right eye is believed to be Immune-Mediated Keratitis. It is being treated with medication and the cloudiness should improve over the next couple of weeks. The other good news is that her left eye which had tears a lot is fine – it was as suspected – a clogged tear duct. This is something that gets overlooked a lot in horses. When Donovan got here, he had discharge running down both of his eyes that went untreated – there were open sores that flies loved. He has some permanent scars from this. His tear ducts were flushed during his initial exam upon intake and both were clogged. Anyway, Matilda should be fine. Dr. Mangan wants to look at her eyes again in a couple of weeks. The bad news for Matilda, well, there isn’t any!
We are so excited about Daisy’s progress! She’s had two BCG injections now over the past few weeks and we are seeing positive changes around both of her eyes. The tumors have shrunk! She gets oral supplements and a topical applied daily. We are staying positive about her recovery. BELIEVE!
Dr. Mangan also did an examination on Betsy Rose. She’s been blind in her right eye since the day she arrived – it’s totally clouded over. But she’s been startling a bit more lately and we thought having her eyes examined would be a good thing to do. Well, sadly, she is losing vision in her left eye too.
Betsy Rose has polycoria – you can see in the photo it looks like she has two pupils. It’s a very good thing that she’s had time here to get to know her way around. She knows she’s safe here, and loved very much. We’ll put bubble wrap on her if we have to!
“It was a really busy day today – As you know, Dr.’s Mangan and Simonson were here and Laura and Stephanie were here too! They do our hooficures. I’m feeling better but Mommy Theresa’s arm isn’t doing very well. Well, have a good night everyone. Freckles is getting ready to tell Lucy a bedtime story about one of her travel adventures – they do this almost every night. Sweet dreams everyone!” says Betsy Rose.
February 21st
The Bridle Brigade of Levy County came out today – I’m so glad that the weather was better! Lots of horses got some extra attention and some of the chores got done pretty quickly!
The mini “Welcome Committee!”
We really appreciate Misti and her group taking the time to come and we always enjoy sharing the horses.
Doesn’t Matilda look like she is smiling? In my opinion, we should always take every opportunity we can to help educate the horse owners of tomorrow.
The entire Beauty Haven’s herd thanks you all for your continued love and support.
#bhfer #betsyrose #believe
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Sincerely,
Theresa
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