The Story of Penny
Penny was found by Collier County Domestic Animal Service as a stray. She was processed and held with the hope to find her owners. After weeks went by SWFHR was contacted to help.
Penny is doing well since arriving in Nov. 2021. She is very food-driven and enjoys working on a slow feeder. Presently she is on a dermatitis control routine and is bathed 2-3 times a week. She is also receiving manor refinement classes frequently. Penny is very much ready for a family to love her for herself with the intent of forever.
Equines that are surrendered by an animal authority such as the Sheriff or Animal Control. Reasons range when the authority is involved but there are just a few categories of reasons:
In most cases, the courts are not involved but the Florida State Statutes say that criminals still own the animal until a court adjudication of ownership transfer to the authority. Only then the animal may be released to another entity such as SWFHR for rehabilitation and rehoming.
A dominance hierarchy is colloquially called a pecking order where the top level, known as Alpha, is the leader.
Degenerative suspensory ligament desmitis (DSLD) is a disease that affects the connective tissue of the lower limbs in Peruvian Pasos, Paso crosses, Arabians, Saddlebreds, Quarter Horses, and Thoroughbreds. Signs of DSLD include:
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Horses identified as having ailments & injuries or considerable age that would preclude them from riding anymore. Being adopted with any thought of, even the slightest, pasture riding in some cases may be quite devastating. We inform all potential adopters, over and over of the severity of each horse’s issues, in the hopes that average adopters with not have much consideration to ignore the issues at hand.
This doesn’t mean these horses can not be adopted but the scrutiny for adoption will be high in order to ensure that the adopter is highly aware of the considerable factors at hand.
The social nature in regard to human interaction. Scaled from 1 to 10. 1 being fearful and 10 being an attention hog. For a better explanation, the chart below gives different breaks to help identify value differences.
Sweet then proceed
Questions related to adopting that you might have are listed below.
It is the policy of SWFHR to make it possible for all to give their time to a noble cause. But we do have a policy on age ranges which are listed below: If you are:
COVID-19... a concern not to be taken lightly, we've taken steps to reduce our staff and current volunteer's exposure to new people, at least at our facility:
The need for your information helps in 2 ways.
We get calls all the time from people looking to re-home their equine(s) yet our capacity limitations are generally exceeded 98% of the time. The purpose of the Adoption Intent Form is to make it possible for the equines that we physically cannot take in to have a chance of being paired up with potential adopters that may not find what they are looking for at our facility.
If you choose to be part of our OERA Project program your request stays active for 1 month allowing the chance we might find a horse for you and your request.
After 1 month we will mark your request as not active unless otherwise requested.
Normal Volunteer Hours are either 7 or 8 am (depending on the day) to Sundown daily. In special circumstances, volunteers may start earlier than 7 am.
On average most volunteers come out 1 to 3 days a week.
The amount of volunteering time on any given day, depending on the shift a volunteer covers when they come out.
AM Shift - starts at either 7 or 8 am depending on the day.
We respect that not everyone has the property to directly possess a horse. Boarding is a reasonable option that we may accept under these guidelines
Words or rather the choice of words can change the meaning of everything. In what we do, you will NEVER hear us use the word SELL but rather ADOPT. We consider the word sell as void of compassion for something with a sole or living character.
There a few different fees a potential adopter may need to consider when adopting any equine.
ADOPTION FEE:
TRAINING FEE:
TRANSPORTATION FEE:
We will perform a background check on all who will have contact with the equine.
Once following through with a visit to the SWFHR facility… if you’ve found an equine you are considering to adopt at this point you will start the application process by filling out an Adoption Application. Some key points to mention about the application are as follows:
After your application, has been approved you will finalize things by completing the Adoption Agreement with SWFHR.
One (1) year after adoption you will be required to submit an Annual Health Update Form to SWFHR for review.
Penny was found by Collier County Domestic Animal Service as a stray. She was processed and held with the hope to find her owners. After weeks went by SWFHR was contacted to help.