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 […]

We have had a rash of hotline calls for the past 6 months from elderly, disabled and broke people needing desperately to rehome their horse(s).  So many calls, in fact, I decided to write about it.  I also decided to go online and see what info I could find about “Baby Boomers” and their horses. […]

A lot of exciting things are happening in the world of GERL.  I realize that I start out many of my articles with that sentence, but honestly, when I sit down to start writing my article, that is the first thing my fingers want to type.   Not because of writer’s block, but because it is […]

Equine Population Numbers I often research the internet for equine population numbers, hoping to find new figures to indicate how many horses there are in Georgia. I haven’t been able to find anything specific to our state, but I have uncovered some other interesting facts in the process. Keep in mind that the estimated numbers […]

Too Many Horses!!! I’m trying to think of something different to write about but my brain always ends up thinking about something that I talk about and write about, all the time. And, those of you who know me know that I like to talk about it! So, without further adieu, I’m climbing up on […]