See also Dog Breed Rescue Sites

"Cowardice asks the question, Is it safe? Expediency asks the question, Is it politics? Vanity asks the question, Is it popular? But conscience asks the question, Is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position, that is neither safe, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him that it is right..."    Martin Luther King

OLD FRIENDS AT HURSTLAND FARM - Thoroughbred retirement facility in Midway, Ky.

American Association for Horsemanship Safety - Contains the most comprehensive information available anywhere on horsemanship safety and legal liability. A SIMPLY OUTSTANDING SITE!

Carpe Diem Equine Rescue, Inc. - Staten Island, NY

Cruelty to Animals Statutes for Your State

Days End Farm Horse Rescue - Lisbon, Maryland

Equine Advocates

Equine Placement Network

Equinerescue.com

Equine Rescue League, Inc.

Equine Rescue Mailing List Home Page

Equine Rescue Network

Equines of the World - A wonderfully informative site.

Equus Sanctuary - Glendale, CA

Friends of the Sound Horse - Providing info about the humane care & training of horses, primarily the Tennessee Walking Horse, & to promote the exhibition of the flat shod, naturally gaited walking horse through competitions
designed to reward the natural, versatile horse.

H.O.P.E. Help Horses  - End Horse Slaughter for food consumption.

H.O.R.S.E Rescue and Sanctuary - Oakview, CA

Horse Protection Act of 1970 

Horse Protection Society of North Carolina Inc

Horse Welfare Organizations - Excellent listing of rescue sites.

JTs' Horse Project Equine Rescue - Equine Rescue & Rehabilitation Serving Northwest Ohio & Southeast Michigan

International Generic Horse Association and HorseAid Home Page

Kentuckiana Arabian Rescue

Last Chance Corral - Throwaway foals (?) find a haven at rescue farm. (See also the Columbus Dispatch's article on this little known, but horrendous problem.)

Life Foundation

Lost and Found Horse Rescue - York, PA

Louisiana Wild Horses - Ft. Polk & the Humane Society of West Louisiana are taking a stand for free-roaming horses, and allowing adopters to take home one or more of these glorious horses. In these animals' blood runs generations of history... ancestors that might have been proud Calvary mounts, steady plow beasts helping settlers to tame the land, Indian war ponies, or a country gentleman's pleasure horse. 

M*A*S*H - Meadowbrook Animal Sanctuary & Haven - Lake Elsinore, CA

Mountain States Horse Rescue & Rehab

Napet - Heartbreaking tale of Napet, a beautiful arabian mare and her cruel and unnecessary death.  Our hearts go out to her owners. Rest in peace, Napet.

New York Horse Rescue - Read a GREAT story about off-the-track thoroughbred rescues.  Success Story! Check out IRON GAVEL.

Ohio Hooved Animal Humane Society - Hartville, OH

RERUN - Giving ex-racehorses a second chance! Rerun operates out of Kentucky, Virginia, and New York. Read numerous success stories about race horses going into their second careers!

R.E.S.P.E.C.T. - Rescue Equine Services Providing Effective Care & Treatment - Nevada - Providing horse rescue related services to horses who have suffered from abuse, abandonment or neglect.  Food, shelter, medical care, permanent home placement  services, temporary and transitional rehabilitation services and adoptions. 

Save the Horses 

Second Chance Horse Rescue Ranch, WA

Stop the Slaughter

Story of THOR, rehabilitated from debilitating injury, now the picture of health, even with a prosthesis fitted to his leg!  Thor & his dedicated owner, Deb, tour children's hospitals, showing children who are facing amputations that it is indeed possible to overcome any obstacle. See also Rio Vista's site - Thor & Deb's success made her recipient of Rio Vista's Hank Award, given for "outstanding equine and canine rescue."

TIER Rescue

Virginia Range Wildlife Protection Association Nevada