My least favorite thing to do is ask for money. I’ve always believed that when people see meaningful work being done, they’ll naturally want to support it—without being asked. But today, I’m asking. As I write this, the Georgia Equine Rescue League (GERL) is facing serious financial challenges. The truth is simple: the need for […]

Everybody loves a happy ending, especially when it comes to horses who have nowhere else to turn. At the Georgia Equine Rescue League (GERL), we are a foster-based rescue able to support fewer than 20 horses in our direct care at any given time. Because of this, our top priority is assisting horses coming from […]

Things have really picked up in our foster horse program lately. More and more counties are reaching out, asking if we can step in to take a horse—or sometimes several—off their hands. On the one hand, this is a positive sign: people know that GERL is a resource and that we will show up when […]

At our recent Georgia Equine Rescue League (GERL) Board meeting, we had the privilege of hearing from Jessica Rock, Georgia’s Statewide Animal Crimes Resource Prosecutor. If her name sounds familiar, it’s because she played a lead role in the legal seizure of The Baker’s Dozen—13 starved horses found in Merriwether County back in September 2022. […]

A tall stack of GERL newsletters sit on the floor beside my desk chronicling the years of horses that we helped and events that we hosted. I refer to them every quarter when I start putting a newsletter together, so I take a ride down memory lane quite often. Now, as I reflect on the […]

Another year has flown by and there are a lot of things to reflect on for me, personally. What a year it has been! Unless you’re new to GERL, you already know that the last year has been all about the three stallions that I fostered. Black Jack was castrated in August and the other […]

The last several months have been a whirlwind of weekly meetings to plan the four-day event scheduled for the first week in September at the Ft. Stewart stables in Hinesville.  This “proof of concept” was a total success in many ways, and I am forever grateful to Tara and Kelly and the entire EIP team […]

You may remember back in Q2 of 2022, the story of the horses of Cumberland Island graced the cover of our newsletter.  It was an informative accounting of my trip to the island with concern for the horses there.  What I didn’t mention in that article was that the Georgia Equine Rescue League (GERL) and […]

I was more than a little excited about the prospect of having no foster horses at my farm.  I had just delivered Gypsy, a 22-year-old mustang mare I had been fostering since June, to her new foster home. And, after having Boone return, I was successful in getting him adopted almost immediately and he was […]

Lately, there seems to be a lot of attention being paid to the American Mustangs that roam our western plains. A lot of the attention is criticism, and it is directed towards the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and their use of helicopters to roundup and cull the herds. They have actually been “vilified” by […]