Please Donate

Over fifty horses live at Proud Spirit. Melanie and Jim need your help. Anyone who has a horse knows that ONE is costly. Your donations are greatly appreciated and tax deductible. For PayPal and other ways to help, please click on Donate.

We need hay and more hay!

As well as Veterinary Care, Hoof Care, Dentistry

A stallion and his daughter were found starving and without water.  They were considered impossible to catch.  Being in a very out-of-the-way location,  it was even difficult to get to where they were.  However, Melanie, with her knowledge and confidence, was able to get them both to Proud Spirit.  After they regained weight and strength, Padre’ was gelded and both became members of the Proud Spirit herd.  Padre’ had much more difficulty settling in but has bonded with a small group and is now living as a horse should. 

Amazing transformation, this is the same horse!

‘Ol Pal – an elderly, severely neglected horse whose help came very late in his life.  He lived the final months of his life in the loving care of Proud Spirit, gained some weight but, sadly, did not have the ability to recover.  Not every rescue turns out as hoped, but ‘Ol Pal found tender loving care at the sanctuary at the end of his life.

Dusty was only two years old when he was rescued from slaughter.  This photo was taken two weeks after he was brought to Proud Spirit,  still very thin and depressed.

You can read about Dusty’s remarkable recovery in “The Horses of Proud Spirit.”