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 […]

Homeless Horses: An Update on Unwanted Horses in the United States I recently had a couple of people forward a link to an article that appeared in The Horse magazine.  The name of the article was “Homeless Horses: An Update on Unwanted Horses in the United States”.  While I read with interest, I noted that […]

HAHD event transforms the way we do things.    In the last edition of the newsletter, I spoke about several areas of the GERL daily process that needed transformation. We were on the cusp of the ASPCA’s Help A Horse Day (HAHD) contest that officially kicked off on April 26th. Since that time, there have […]

Preparation for growth… With the annual meeting behind us, I have plenty of areas that I want to concentrate on to tighten things up in preparation for growth.  We have so many great programs that we offer and do so many things to help horses, but we don’t do such a great job at promoting ourselves.  We […]

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about goals for GERL. Not that we’re not still holding our course on all the things that we’ve been doing, but I was thinking about GERL with relation to our recent partnership with the Georgia Horse Council. GERL has been promoting our Equine Get Well Plan for seven […]