Horse Rescue Heroes | S1E3 | Full Episode

the only other option is to dart it which it might not survive [Music] do [Music] so what nate and cindy don't realize is that when they're coming down here they're not just staying at a bed and breakfast they're gonna be staying at the bed and breakfast taking care of this this adorable little guy that we rescued from an auction but we have him here because there's a horse that has been running loose in this community for years it's drinking out of people's swimming pools it's people are afraid it's going to hit on the road uh it's really causing a lot of trouble and it's a danger to itself right now and others because if a you know dark horse gets out on the road at night and gets hit it could kill somebody uh when nate and cindy get here they'll be staying here for a week and we're gonna have them taking care of this little guy hopefully baiting the other horse to come in and hopefully we'll be able to to capture this horse in this week that they're here so we're gonna get him set up [Music] nate and i got here last friday and tawny had said uh she had a project for us while we were down here filming for uh horse rescue heroes and we got here [Music] i'm so excited nate and cindy are here they're going to be in for a huge change they're used to wisconsin now they're here in middle tennessee middle of summer it's hot it's humid there's bugs everywhere i'm not sure what they're going to think of all this so it's been a little bit of time since we grew up in wisconsin we awarded you all the check it was so much fun to to be up there and see your facility and see how how bad you all need that barn so um we've been talking over the phone over the last you know few months and um have you seen an increase in adoptions or fundraising or anything with some of the tools we've been giving you that that work for us yes definitely okay that's good big increase in all of it good good because that's that's what the organization need that needs to be able to grow and be able to take care of itself and we were in the position you know years back where we were funding it jason was working a masonry job and it was like well we're gonna go rescue some more horses and i'm thinking this poor jason's worth money but getting your organization to grow to a spot where you know it's not financially stressful for you personally that's a huge step so now we need to get it to the next level where there's funds coming in to take care of the horses and everything and then also hiring qualified people to take care of them it's hard to get people just to volunteer you know even a small amount of money makes a yes gives people incentives to yeah and it takes less you know it takes you don't have to do so much part of being here is i want you to take time to just enjoy life without without your rescue back in wisconsin you may think that you're just here to hang out in this nice cabin and enjoy yourselves but you're actually here to do a job oh yeah here at the cabin oh yeah we gotta paint it or something the water looks like it's done i do see fresh wood there so we're going to go over here and i think you might get a clue as we go over and you can kind of might be able to piece together what's happening all right so come on this way [Music] we're supposed to hold hands too because we don't you don't have to don't worry we like cold hands so you just have to put up with us so this is a little pony that we rescued from an auction he's the one in our video that had the extremely long hooves that we hack saw and he had an eye that was injured had to be removed so any any ideas why he's here while you're you're at the bedroom what what do you see what what what's what's going on yeah um i don't know so we got a big panel opening area he's by himself he's gonna get lonely this bunch of hay here so there's that there's a horse coming yes you got it okay so over the last three years there's a horse that has been running loose in this community um the sheriff constantly gets calls on it you can see the road intersection here um he comes down the road eats grass he's been drinking out of people's pools multiple complaints on this horse and we're going to catch this horse and get it in here that's the idea the horse likes to come down here in the mornings and evenings so our hope is as it's coming down we put hey we've even put horse manure out there and the way it likes to walk that it'll be like what's going on and then come check out the lord over here yes hopefully over this week this horse will get comfortable enough to come in here if we can't catch this horse the sheriff says um the only other option is to dart it which it might not survive so we're kind of this horse's last chance we have a special rescue mission there is a horse that has been running loose on thousands of acres of land it's hunting land and the hunting club has asked us to come and try to get this horse off the land so they don't accidentally shoot it or it starves to death out there we're gathering up all the horses to take on this rescue mission because we're hoping the other horses maybe by their noise of winning or you know just their smell will help get the other horse lured in um and i have no idea how this rescue mission is going to end up because a horse on thousands of acres of land is kind of like a needle in a haystack it could be [Music] i'm anywhere taking me back you're taking me back when everything moves [Applause] [Music] so our organization was contacted about a horse that is loose on this property it's been living here for several months that they know of they found out about it because the hunter came out to put some grain out for deer and the horse like demolished their little deer feeder and they're not real happy about having the horse here so what they've asked us to do is to try to help get this horse off this hunting land so that's why we're all here today and i came out here and we went all over this property with side by sides and stuff and i think it's going to take horses to get this horse to come out there's a lot of evidence the horse is here it is a friendly horse they said somebody has been able to touch it typically when they go down the road it's they see the horse when they're coming back so the horse hears there's commotion wants to come see so i'm hoping today will be enough commotion for this horse and we can actually get out of here before winter comes or before hunting season comes and accidentally gets shot this is the property that we have to search it's 2 500 acres because we're parked right here right now and this is kind of a rocky road all the way back here i want to drive the horses back here and we can unload them so we don't have to have them worn out by the time we get back to the area as i'm driving up the road it's getting really narrow and i come around the corner and there's a log that is in the road and i don't even know if i'm gonna be able to get the trailer around it so i'm gonna drive up on the bank and hope i can get around it as i'm driving up there i didn't realize there's another log on the bank and as the tires go over it it flips up and almost hits the truck yesterday is gone forget about tomorrow and the ceilings you see right through [Music] [Music] no one else [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] okay [Applause] [Music] no one else can slay the dragon sleeping [Music] inside [Music] if we can't get this log moved i'm going to have to back up for miles and that's going to jeopardize this whole rescue mission [Music] oh there's a spider let's point it out [Music] [Applause] [Music] no one else [Music] you can tell the horse definitely has been here uh it's left droppings behind they're not too fresh but the horse definitely has been hanging out in this area so hopefully we can find him today [Music] [Music] we are here with a bunch of horses and that winning we love that because hopefully that will bring this horse in um i kind of rode this horse away and back and all the horses started winning so hopefully we can we can lure this horse out and get it back to our shelter today so we'll give it our best shot we're all riding out we've written down gullies we've ridden down haulers we've ridden down pipelines trying to look for this horse so far haven't found anything all right so everyone we're going to try to break the horses up from their friends and some ride that way some stay here some go down that way and we'll try to get them talking because if the horse was here this is the best chance of trying to trying to find this horse that's she's not gonna like it 2 500 acres is a lot of land to go [Music] through [Music] so i've driven down a little side road a long ways and i'm looking to uh just stop listen turn off the engine see if i can hear a horse the trail just kept disintegrating and i don't think there's a chance the horse is down here i haven't seen any sign so we're gonna head back up catch up with the other horses we came down here earlier looking um for any kind of sign of the other horses down here and over there we saw a few little footprints in the leaves and down here we saw some footprints tracking in the leaves going down road 18 so we're gonna take a little ride with the horses down here with the whole crew and see if we can see anything else where we do have in this along these this leaf matter down this road there are definite hoof tracks that we did not disturb the first time down so we're hoping that maybe the horse was here recently um since even yesterday when the when we had some rain come in well we haven't found anything and there's lots of proof that this horse is here but i think he's hiding from us so far we have not found our our missing horse we've all we've come up with is um some leaf matter disturb leaf matter and some poop today has been unsuccessful for finding this horse lots of evidence that this horse is here but you know that is the reality of horse rescue and what horse rescue heroes out their face um i can't tell you how many times you know we've had to you know go out and try to rescue a horse and you know either it's an auction or something and there's there's sometimes we come back empty-handed and and that is just the true reality of it and it's something that you know we don't put out on the internet a lot if you're following a horse rescue they're probably not putting out days like this because you know we're typically sharing all the amazing fun things that happen you know rescued so many horses this day and that day but this is the reality of it when you're working with animals they're unpredictable and it's hard to say exactly what's going to happen and you know we gave it our best today we had eight horses you know nearly 20 people out here scouring but it's it's 2 500 acres so um we won't give up on this horse but at the same time you know we can't spend all our time out here so hopefully the hunters will find the horse again and maybe call us right when they see it and that would that would help us out a lot so hopefully there's still a happy ending to this story and we're able to save this horse but this is the real reality of of horse rescue i mean we spend days you know and not feel like we accomplished anything but it's it's our job and we'll get up tomorrow and be helping horses again so it's just one day at a time last night cindy ann her team got the horse at the bed and breakfast that's been running loose for two years they got it caught in a pen they messaged me late late last night unfortunately i was already asleep but we're on the road now um i've got confirmation that the horse is still in the pen this horse was its last we were its last chance if um if the sheriff the sheriff was gonna have to possibly um shoot it if if none of these options work that we were trying to get this horse so we're very excited that we'll be able to get this horse back in our shelter and it'll be off the roads and a lot of people have said they almost got hit or they almost hit this horse and stuff because it's just been running loose for years so we're on our way there they are ponytails and the horse this is what real horse rescue heroes are they will sit up all night with a horse they caught this is so awesome this horse is actually going to have a future now so this is leanne and she on the property that and she had us allowed us to put up the panels here and can you tell us a little bit about this horse's history well uh what i understand is the horse has been running loose for three years and she just goes i mean all over the community but she's kind of made her home here in my yard and so she does her business she drinks out of my swimming pool and uh she just needs a home yeah you know and i mean sometimes when i come home in the dark she's out in the middle of the road but i know to look for yeah but somebody else don't know how to look for it we brought this horse uh because if this horse has never loaded in the trailer or anything before this horse can help bond a little bit with the horse before we load it and then they can load together he wants to get out and that's what i'm gonna do right now hey buddy here's a friend yes and she's like there's a real horse it's a real horse look it's a mini of you yeah it's a real horse she's like is this something from my dreams so if we can't open this up and then i will um i'll go in there with them and make sure she doesn't get too crazy and then jason can get the trailer backed up and we'll get them loaded she's like i can't believe it there's other horses besides me in this world so we got here uh nate and i got here last friday and tawny had said uh she had a project for us one tell us what it was uh we weren't sure we were very nervous and um and there was a minnie up by the bed and breakfast there in a little panel and she informed us that we were here to catch a horse who had been running loose in the area for what they're told is about three years now it's a busy road it's a very dangerous situation for her it's very curvy we thought the odds we were told that if she wasn't caught they were going to try to shoot her with a dart gun which could be very dangerous for her i figure it was a long shot but it took my mind off everything at home and allowed me to just kind of focus on something else and not be so stressed and so we have spent the entire week learning this horse's habits where she goes what she does the very next night she was caught um the bed of bourbon ray uh they were able to get the panel shut and they texted tony while we're at the auction and we were so excited that she just caught and we couldn't wait to get back wednesday and get her loaded up and in the meantime we were told that she had broke out of the pen so we got back wednesday late and came down to see the damage to the pen and there was no damage somebody had come and undone the panels dropped one and let her go so we set out to try to get her back in wednesday night we just gave her some green we left it open let her just kind of come and go as she pleased and uh when we got back last night we could see she had eaten it gave her some more and then we came down she was in there we just quietly walked over and shut it came down here right away as it got light out and she's still in here and she's so sweet she's so sweet she's not gonna get by a car yeah very exciting [Music] all right well let's get these panels loaded up and get her back to the [Music] shelter [Music] we're super excited that we were able to get this horse and she's safe in our in our shelter now we've tried to catch two horses just in this last week one we were unsuccessful we couldn't find the horse at all it was on 2500 acres i'm just gonna go see if i can make friends with her a little bit in some cases like this the horse is actually halter trained and just hasn't been messed with in [Music] years [Music] it's amazing how calm she got once i put the rope on her it's like oh okay i remember i'll go ahead and lead her out of here and see see how well she does lead come on good girl good girl so she's not a wild horse she was just a hard to catch horse that was running loose for three years and we're so uh so grateful that she's here she can go through our intake process and our veterinarian and trainer can clear for adoption she can go on and find a home so this is a very happy ending too to a long rescue it took a week to catch this horse and a whole lot of people but she's an awesome horse so we're happy for her [Music] you

Channel: Horse Plus Humane Society

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Id: MR90jzVjrh4

Length: 25min 0sec (1500 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 20 2021