I can't believe a whole month has passed since our last email letter went out.  Time is flying so quickly and with so much to do at Lifesavers I can hardly keep up with it all. 

We asked for help with our hay needs last month and we did receive many generous donations that have allowed us to purchase a load of hay, for that we are very grateful, yet it is an ongoing need and we've been told to expect hay prices to double.  That's a scary thought.  So we will continue to ask for help to keep hay coming in and our horses well fed.

But here's a little good news....we had a spring baby born at our Wild Horse Canyon sanctuary.  Welcome "Sunny" a little filly whose mother's name is Solstice.  Solstice was one of the mares we brought back from South Dakota.  If you remember, we had nearly 200 horses grazing on a leased range there until we lost the lease and several other things went wrong and we

then decided to bring all the horses back home where we could manage them better. 

One of the things that went wrong was the appearance of foals on the range.  This surprised us because we didn't send any stallions with our horses.  We have a strict "no breeding" policy - so when our mares starting having babies - we knew something was very wrong.  As it happened, someone released a stallion or two onto the 6000 acre range without us knowing it.  It wasn't until we gathered up our herd that we could even identify who was ours and who wasn't.  We did find a stallion in the bunch, and believe that there were others belonging to the neighbor that may have been allowed to run with our horses. 

We are expecting even more foals this year because many of our mares are very pregnant.  That's both bad news and good news.  We don't need anymore horses to care for, but who doesn't love baby horses?

Lifesavers is focused on making more room at our sanctuary and one day we hope to have most of our horses living there in the beautiful mountains and canyons of Caliente, Kern County, California. 

At this time about 150 rescued souls live there, and the remainder of our 500 are at our facility ranch in Lancaster.  It is over crowded and a management nightmare, but we can only move more horses as we can acquire more land at the sanctuary.  Another ongoing project of ours.

Recently we offered our friends an opportunity to help us purchase more sanctuary land by offering an engraved plaque installed on fence posts at the sanctuary honoring their contribution.  It was very popular and we are still putting the brass name plates up as they are being made. 

We originally meant this program to help us save the South Dakota range, but since we relocated the horses we have transferred all the plaques to our Wild Horse Canyon location.  The name plates look awesome on the fence posts surrounding our horses and there are many more posts that could hold an engraved plaque - so we are again offering this opportunity.

California land costs 3x as much as it did in South Dakota...it is now $1500 per acre.  But we are willing to name a whole acre of land after any one who will give us $500 toward the purchase.  We will have a beautiful brass plate engraved just like the one in the photo with the name of whomever the plaque will honor - its up to you. 

But...maybe you are one of those special friends who did buy an acre...in that case you will shortly be sent a photo of your very own plaque on your very own fence post honoring your very own acre (or more if that was the case).

If you haven't already, and would like to take part in this limited offer and have your name permanently placed at Lifesavers' Wild Horse Canyon sanctuary where everyone can see it forever, then click on our donation link and mark the $500 donation for the sanctuary land.  You can tell us who to name on the plaque in the "dedication" section of the donation form.

Thank you, as always, for your support - of any kind.  I know not everyone can give every time we ask and I am grateful for any size donation whenever you are able to give it.

Please continue to scroll down this email letter for more articles and updates. 

Thank you for being a friend - you are a blessing to the horses!

From my heart to yours,

Jill Starr

President

Lifesavers Wild Horse Rescue

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