Horses are facing a crisis in our country.  Across the nation, they are being abandoned, left to starve, or forced to endure long treks outside our borders to a place of certain death .  They are starving, in need of medical attention, or have lost all hope.  They need our help.  They need your help.

what we do

1. AWARENESS AND ADVOCACY.  Hope For Horses is an animal welfare organization, and as such advocates for responsible ownership and appropriate care for horses.  We maintain a large, secure online database that assists not just local animal control officers, but representatives from animal welfare organizations across the country.
   

2. TRAINING AND EDUCATION.  Hope For Horses offers a two-day training class on how to conduct and resolve issues of equine cruelty and neglect.  Sessions are taught by prosecutors, defense attorneys, animal control officers, veterinarians, and other animal welfare professionals. 
   

3. EQUINE CRUELTY CASE MANAGEMENT.  Hope For Horses provides a wide range of assistance and services to animal control agencies ranging from consultation and witness testimony, to medical board, rehabilitation, and records management of horses seized as live evidence pending case prosecution.
   

OUR MISSION

The Mission of Hope For Horses is to promote the betterment, safety, and well-being of mistreated horses; to provide training and resources for animal control officers and horse rescue organizations; and to create increased awareness among legislators, resulting in improved protection of horses.

We believe that perpetrators of animal abuse should be held accountable, and support the efforts of animal control, prosecuting attorneys, and others in building and managing those cases.   We also believe that the financial burden for this work should be borne by the perpetrators of abuse, and that animal control agencies should not expect private citizens or nonprofit organizations to bear the full cost of the rescue, rehabilitation, and rehoming of neglected, abused, and abandoned horses.