HORSE UPDATES

Meet Gem! 

We'd like to reintroduce Gem, as many of you have never met her considering she's been at a foster home, almost since the moment she arrived in MVHR's care in 2021.  Because of foster homes like hers, MVHR can help more horses! 

Cole & Rex settled in with herd

Our recent intakes Cole & Rex have settled in with the MVHR herd, and are making friends. With these two horses, MVHR has reached its capacity and is working hard to find adoptable homes!

Our waitlist continues to grow and we have seen an increase in calls from people needing placement for their horses ASAP due to financial hardship. Recent increases in the cost-of-living in the entire country will result in more horses needing to find a safe haven. We work hard to take in owner surrenders before those horses end up neglected or sold at an auction where their fate is unknown. With your support and donations, we are able to continue doing this important work to be a safe landing for horses in need. Thank you!

PROGRAMS - SAVE THE DATE!

It's a new year and we're excited to plan for 2023! We are busy working on the Summer Day Camps schedule for community youth! Summer Day Camp registration opens March 10, 2023

Mini Horse Heroes returns this year too, and Racey can't wait to see you all back at the ranch. Registration for Spring/Summer dates for MHH opens on March 1, 2023

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES -

We Need Your Help!

No horse experience is needed to volunteer, as MVHR provides introductory and ongoing training to help to develop horsemanship skills that will allow you to volunteer with the horses in varying capacities, based on your interest, such as:

Corral Catering Water and hay need to be topped off throughout the day, and the horses will love you for it!

Manure Meditations What more valuable way to spend time than putting a corner of the world all to rights, and all for the horses?! There's always plenty of manure to go around and, whether scooping one corral or five, every single pile picked up helps the horses stay happy and healthy...and you too ;)!

Tuesday Tech - Both the vet and the farrier are at the ranch on Tuesdays, and that makes for a busy day when we could use extra hands to help handling horses! You can learn to be a "Tech" and assist with catching and holding horses while they have their vet and farrier treatments, and even help with any ongoing treatments they may need on other days of the week.

Grooming Gurus For those who can’t wait to get in there and curry and comb, getting all the dirt and tangles out! Grooming helps improve the health of each and every horse, and this is a great way to get to know the herd!

 Visit the Volunteer Page on our website to sign up and learn more!

MORE WAYS TO HELP THE HORSES!

You can shop on AMAZON SMILE with all of their great deals and prices, and Amazon will donate to MVHR! Select Mountain Valley Horse Rescue as your nonprofit of choice, and even those wish list purchases you make for the horses earn a donation. Win-Win for you and the horses! Click HERE to sign up for Amazon Smile.

MVHR also has an AMAZON WISHLIST which makes it easy to donate an item that we need to help us care for the horses. Simply add it to your shopping cart and select that it be shipped straight to MVHR. Click HERE to see what’s on our Amazon Wishlist.

The City Market Community Rewards program is a really easy way to give back. This program makes it possible for you to donate through the shopping you do every day. By using your Shoppers Card, City Market/King Soopers makes a donation to the horses on your behalf! No extra cost to you! Once you link your Shopper’s Card to MVHR, all you have to do is shop at City Market and swipe your Shopper’s Card. Click HERE to set this up today for your grocery shopping! It only takes a few minutes and helps the horses greatly! 

MVHR BROKERAGE ACCOUNT with EDWARD JONES

Did you know MVHR has a brokerage account that you can donate stock to…and that you can make a gift to the horses this way? Donating stocks offers benefits for both you and MVHR. We are so grateful for the donors that have already committed to doing so. For more information on how to donate to our account with Edward Jones, contact your broker or email marleen@mvhr.net.

MVHR ENDOWMENT FUND at YVCF

MVHR made a big step in 2023 and established the MVHR Endowment Fund at the Yampa Valley Community Foundation. If you'd like to learn more about donating to the Endowment Fund, please click HERE.