Horse Rescue Heroes | S1E5 | Full Episode

i live with christ they just want love so bad sad honor he's cowboy color they need our shoes on our way around 500. [Music] it's amazing because it's thanks to your support and the tassie animal rescue fund from los angeles with their extremely generous donation peyton actually got struck by somebody that was buying horses the comment was made you guys bought all the horses up right here it looks like it's swollen so we need to get that police report but let's get this baby over into the pin with the others [Music] so we're getting ready to head off to the auction it's it's been a busy last few days i've been fundraising it cost our organization about a thousand dollars to rescue a horse from auction feed it get veterinarian care and shelter it give it training and until we can find it at home and it can cost 650 depending on the size of the horse we rescue so we try to raise a thousand dollars for that so right now we can rescue 17 horses i'm going to continue fundraising throughout the day and hopefully we can save a lot more all right let's go busy day so every auction i make a spreadsheet so when we're at the auction we can be calculating how many horses we get and then i also have to calculate how many donations we have so i know we can actually afford to get that many horses so every time we get to the auction town we check into the motel first and then tawny goes online and she looks to see how many horses we can rescue cost the organization about one thousand dollars a horse to purchase it transport to our shelter give it the vet careth farrier care vaccinations deworming microchipping and sheltering until it's able to find a home so we have to raise a thousand dollars a horse and so she logs into our paypal account she logs into our the credit card processor for our website and all the facebook fundraisers and she adds it all up and then we're able to let people know keep them updated on how many horses we can rescue and we would really like to rescue 20 horses tonight so let's hope for the best about 100 horses go through this auction every week with those hundred horses come hundreds of people and every horse is sold off to the highest bidder no matter who it is it's at this auction you can buy anything you can buy fish hooks you can buy saws tires um they'll come through here pretty soon and auction off these um these things they haven't sold i didn't see the ak-47 being sold in this parking lot it's something else so what i'm gonna do right now is i'm gonna go through i'm gonna count how many horses see here approximately [Music] i just went through and counted all the horses there's over 100 horses here tonight so i'm just letting the group here know so one thing that you don't i can't really capture when the horses are safe at our shelter is when horses are at these auctions and they know like their their future is so uncertain when they meet somebody that they they feel they can trust and that loves them they just soak up the attention like they just want love so bad and they've been shoved down alleyways and into slaughter trucks and on their way to mexico and they're just they're so tired but they want love they're they're yearning for it so bad and it's it's just devastating because they're these were people's pets at one time and then they you know either they get older or injured or just the wrong place at the wrong time and you know these horses need help so bad and that's why we come here and we try to help them but we desperately need support so we can because there's so many we can't we can't do it without your support so these pens right here they put stallions that can't be with other horses in here so right now there's no stallions that are being aggressive or anything but these are the stallion holding pens when we're at auction we're looking through all the pens sometimes there's horses in the back corners we want to learn as much as we can we're looking for age temperament injuries we just want to get to know them as fast as we can before they go through the auction ring or one thing i see whenever we come back here and a lot of times they'll put saddles on skinny horses so you don't see it yeah so you don't see it until after you get the horse normally it's a really thick saddle pad and then a bulky saddle and so you don't really see it this one's up to weight down because it's spilled out but that is that is common big bite big bite not the whole apple not gold thank you that's the slaughter truck coming in uh it can haul about 40 horses we routinely see slaughter trucks and kill buyers come to the auction and bring skinny horses uh these horses are in horrific condition a lot of times they're happy to bounce through the slaughter pipeline [Applause] i don't know where to begin there's so many horses here tonight that need help there's a pen full of skinny horses no doubt castaways from the slaughter pipeline they've most likely been in the slaughter truck and pulled off to be replaced with fatter horses but there's only so many donations and we can only save as many as funds allow see all right they've glued it or something yep we got we got epoxy down here trying to show because this whole front of the toe was just ripped off and he's sore on it i touch it and he picks it up and then they spray painted to cover it up and i want to be in there you know looking at the horses and seeing what's happening but don't eat all of it okay fine you're going to drop it at some point you can't eat the whole apple baby that's dingy this is a very important part because if i don't show these pictures to our supporters and our donors they won't know they need help so i'm going through and just make sure my donation links are working it's always the biggest worry of mine of sending out a blog or an email and having the donation links broken so then i have my computer read the email back to me i know jason reads it but i just want to make sure that it's good and i could read it but sometimes i mean i can read stuff and it looks fine in my head but it doesn't come out right so i just have my computer read it before i send it out just to make sure it's okay i don't know where to begin there are so many horses here tonight that need help by the end of the night um most of everyone will be gone except us and the kill buyers and then it's like 99 kill buyers and it's just us bidding against them and it's heartbreaking because we're typically out of money by then these young men here are very brave because they hop on horses they have no clue about pretty much in every auction across the united states there's kids like this that will hop on horses they don't know and ride them through the auction rings so they raise a higher price uh in the auction and you get a commission for that i get ten bucks a horse ten dollars a horse you can ride it through so they'll go through these horses back here to see who they can ride if they can ride it they'll get 10 bucks and they can ride it through the auction and it actually really helps the horse out because horses that people can see being ridden they're more likely to buy and they won't they won't end up going to mexico or canada so you guys are doing amazing work we just want to interview some of our volunteers here so you can see you know what they're saying first hand what it's like when a horse is in the slaughter pipeline i've been in the professional animal world for over 20 years and i've got to say this is this is gut wrenching every one of these horses seems to have a story i can't imagine what must be going through the minds of these horses it's really sad seeing the horses a lot of times it's really sad that they didn't have the option to do something else and you can tell there's pain in their eyes they're scared they're this could be the end of the line for them like they don't know what's next i'm very happy for the ones we do save it just gives me a piece of mind the auctions we've been to in wisconsin um they're not of this scale a lot of them are also higher end there's always you know the few stragglers at the end that the kill buyers ultimately go for but there are some low end ones that we've been to but they're not of this magnitude this place is huge and there's a lot of horses here that really need some help hi it's leilani from tazzy i can tell you're at auction is that a horse it is it is are there a lot of horses there there's over a hundred and there's someone really really bad bad well i i got your newsletter and i just saw them i can't believe people let them be that skinny that's horrifying it is it's heart-wrenching to see their faces and see every bone in their body um this is um lulani from tazzy animal fund she's worked with us for years um yeah we know how hard you guys work and we trust you so much so it's hazy animal rescue fun and our monthly donors are committing to twenty thousand dollar donation so that you guys can go rescue twenty more horses right now more than you could have i better cry sending friends extra goodness um [Music] it doesn't happen often i'm speechless yeah we've never gotten a donation like this when we're at an auction i know all the work you guys do you're you're volunteers everybody affiliated with wordsworth is amazing so it's our honor and our privilege so just go get some awesome courses and make sure you show us who's coming home yeah we will we will wow thank you thank you so much we'll save a bunch of babies tonight and older ones and older ones we'll save we'll save as many as we can we need to keep this quiet if the kill buyers here that we have a huge budget tonight they will bid up against us and they will try to because they run they'll they'll try to waste donations tonight if you are buying a horse uh we do as you pay for it before you leave you're more than welcome to leave him overnight if you need to or we'll try to find somebody going your way 700 500 500 550 600 650 700 675 cj 655. it's it's really above slaughter price at that price where'd she go hey he come from the amish he come from the amish and he's just been a big old slave his entire [Music] [Music] life [Music] [Music] [Music] 99 [Music] [Music] i don't know 500 600 700 [Music] 98-24 this is a little guilty they wrote him all around the other side come right with a saddle horse thousand dollars 700 he's cowboy colored their shoes on all around you might need more just a little smaller bars he's a little harsh 485 485 485 7475 9824 horseplus thank you so far we've rescued 21 horses and miniatures and um we've spent almost 7 000 and that's a lot of money but it's 21 more to save and that's just amazing okay so i'm doing a live video okay um feed here we'll let this trick go by we need your help tonight to save horses please make a donation now okay and then i'm gonna add add the donation button hey everyone this is tony at horse plus we are here at the auction tonight and we need your support there's over 100 horses here right whole pen he now have no prize he just got worse for the day so he brought him to the sale [Music] he's doing the right thing he's getting rid of him before the down if he said little bit of your choice to ring right there boys 350 350 350 uh so three and a quarter horsepower and a quarter ninety [Applause] [Applause] wonderful here's what they do the ones that can be straightened out they straightened out the ones that came they have them on their way to the next lock that's [Music] 31.97 [Music] so we've rescued a lot of horses this evening we are at um 48 horses so far and 48 horses and miniatures that's a lot of animals but we're gonna maybe get a few more donations are coming in we're excited to see what happens tonight right now we're bidding on a beautiful horse let's see what happens right now the auctioneer is at 425 trying to find somebody to pay 4.25 for it is it 4 10. we got it [Music] yep you just got that horse for 400 bucks [Music] [Music] what happens as the auction goes on is there's there's everyone's leaving that is here to just buy horses for kids or you know families or whatever and it just ends up being the kill buyers and by then like we almost have 50 horses we really can't rescue more funds are depleted um and so it's it's really devastating at the end of the auction because the hill buyers are just scooping them up but we try to keep bidding to try to keep the prices you know a little bit we're not just getting them dirt cheap but it's it's very sad three quarter corner going to go to voter high value by 350. now 750 a rocky mountain that could not find her papers 189 boys 300 quarter high 400. hey everyone tonight was a crazy night we we rescued a lot of horses we're pretty sure we rescued 50. um the auctioneer we thought we got 49 and then the auctioneer said one of them wasn't counted so i think we got 50 horses tonight and it's amazing because it's thanks to your support and the tassie animal rescue fund from los angeles with their extremely generous donation after the auction's over we have to go out and find the horses they're all over in different pins throughout the auction it was raining lightning thundering crashing the horses were scared we just had to get them in where they could be under the barn and be safe for the night [Music] it's easy to forget the things that make you who you are i hope that when you look at you you see yourself the way that i do [Music] when [Music] just remember that you're not wrong in that moment you can't control just remember that you're not alone so we had an incident happen tonight um peyton actually got struck by somebody that was buying horses the comment was made you guys bought all the horses up and they were pretty angry um now i'm i'm pretty sure i can see it swallowing on her face right here it looks it's swollen so we need to get that police report this is the real reality of what horse rescue heroes go through you know you may see on the website everything looks great and yay we rescued all these horses we're putting ourselves out there in very uncomfortable situations where people are extremely angry at times because you know they wanted to buy all these horses and trade them out and you know we're coming in here and getting them and they they get upset and angry and it's something that just there's no way you can get around it when you're in the rescue world okay so i i think we rescued 53. it's like 12 30 in the morning uh we just got back to the motel room and we rescued 53 horses and that that is the most horses we've ever rescued an auction before we um at one time we bought 50 at the auction and we got them all sorted put new pans with hay and water and then somebody wanted to sell us three more and if we didn't buy them they were selling them cheaper than a slaughter price and a lot cheaper yeah yeah price pretty much and if we didn't buy them they're going to go right on that they were going to load them up on a semi trailer so we're just going to get the box so just an update to our donors um because you know we had an amazing auction rescue night early morning and i i think it's always very important that even though i'm tired and exhausted that our our followers and donors get recognition recognition and closure closure for for the night like we're at this auction and this they donated and then they're gonna get an email with a few pictures and a little update like you know hey thank you because i really appreciate them doing what they can to help because without them we wouldn't be able to rescue these horses filming this episode was absolutely amazing uh i've been going to auction since i was a little little tiny girl my mom would take me to auctions and we would rescue vil calves and i rescued my first horse from an auction when i was 19. and that was the first the first rescue horse um my neighbor was a kill buyer when i was little growing up and i always saw horses coming going and you know at the young age of 19 to rescue the first horse you know that our organization rescued and we rescued over 6 000 horses in these last 16 years to be able to bring a film crew in to an auction was just unbelievable because i can try to tell our followers and donors what i see at auctions but it's impossible so this episode has given you a little glimpse into my life over the last 16 years i want to say a special thank you to all the donors who made this auction rescue possible to the tassie animal rescue fund in los angeles for their extremely generous donation and i just want to put this episode in memory of all the horses that [Music] i have seen in the slaughter pipeline that weren't saved over the last 16 years i've watched so many horses load up on slaughter trucks and i've always wished i could tell people what it's really like and in this episode you all saw a taste of it you saw the slaughter trucks and i just want a special memory for all the horses that didn't make it

Channel: Horse Plus Humane Society

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Length: 25min 0sec (1500 seconds)

Published: Wed Feb 03 2021