The dust has long settled on the Horse Fair that GERL and the GHC hosted in April. It was so well attended that it surprised us all. Many people have let us know how much they enjoyed it and hope that there will be a repeat. As a result of the great turnout, the Georgia […]

Life in the world of GERL continues to swirl for me. After almost a year, I received a phone call from a county law enforcement deputy asking if we could take a couple of horses into our program. Of course, we said yes, but ended up with only one new horse. Who would have thought […]

Things have been very quiet in the world of horse rescue with regard to the pace of new arrivals that once filled the Georgia Department of Agriculture’s (GDA’s) impound barns.  All of the barns stand empty now that the responsibility of picking up horses rests with the counties.  It is hard to believe that there […]

The year 2020 will be remembered by most people as a year of extreme changes.  For many of us who have been in the trenches with the Georgia Department of Agriculture’s (GDA) Equine Division employees, it will also be remembered as the end of their program as we have known it for the past 27 […]

I received a call back in February from Henry County Animal Control requesting GERL’s help with feeding a herd of 22 horses that had been seized by the City of McDonough Police Department.  The GERL Board of Directors approved the expense and we immediately set up a visit to see the horses.   It was a […]

As the year winds down, I find myself reflecting on all we’ve accomplished in 2019.  It has been a busy year with two law enforcement training meetings, the annual Andee Rogers Memorial Poker Ride in the Spring and the Rescue Challenge in the Fall.  We also placed a record number of horses in forever homes […]

After a very successful 2019 GERL Help a Horse Campaign where we were able to adopt out 15 horses from the GDA equine program as well as a couple from our foster program.  Most came from the Mansfield barn.  Everybody agrees that the two prison impounds need to have horses.  Both prisons have 4 horses […]

   I was recently invited to a meeting with the Georgia Department of Agriculture’s (GDA) equine manager, Mark Murrah, and Mat Thompson at the downtown office.  The topic of conversation was the Mansfield horses.  I gladly accepted and it turned out to be a great exchange of ideas and other information, as far as I’m […]

In our last newsletter I spoke about my pending meeting with Agriculture Commissioner Gary Black. I have since had that meeting and I must say that it was “informative”. Commissioner Black assured me that they have no immediate plans to close the Mansfield impound. That is a good thing. Other than that, I came away […]

I have carefully considered my topic for this quarter’s newsletter. Over the more than ten years that I have been President of GERL, I have worked successfully to build a working relationship between GERL and the Equine Division of Georgia Department of Agriculture. During that time, I realized that simply to rescue horses in need […]