New York - ❤️🐴❤️ Peaceful Acres Horses, Harvest Host

 

New York - ❤️🐴❤️ Peaceful Acres Horses, Harvest Host

This Harvest Host might just be our most favorite hands down. This place will touch your heart and soul and change you.

Peaceful Acres Horses is a Sanctuary for Horses and People. A non-profit equine welfare and equine guided personal growth and learning organization. 

Nanci, the resident Guardian Angel, heart and soul of this place rescued horses, donkeys and mules now for over 20 years. The farm grew from 12 acres to 156 acres and saved/rescued close to 300 horses/donkeys/mules.

Here, she and her amazing family and volunteers, offer rehabilitation, re-homing, and retirement to equines who have been a product of animal cruelty, saved from the slaughter pipe line or were companion horses unable to be placed or sold to forever homes.

I had no clue how ignorant I was to the welfare of equines in our country. The abuse many face, plus the throw away mentality of being sold to be slaughtered for human consumption because they couldn't perform anymore as in working or racing. Heck I thought that was an Eastern thing as in Hungaria where horses were turned into salami. Not sure they still do but they did when I was a child. 

Now I learned this is an open and legal process here, as horses in the US get sold to Mexico AND Cananada for food. Honestly I had no clue this went on.

Now the reason this is so shocking after you visit Peaceful Acres Horses is due to the fact of what you find when you get here. You see beautiful, healthy and oh so happy animals all around you. They come running when you walk by. Then you see the pictures and read the stories of each arrival and what they used to endure and look like. Beaten, scarred, starved, injured. Many had injuries that require daily medication and yet they are projecting nothing but joy and love.

One Thoroughbred formerly successful race and show horse named Kivi (formerly Wave of Energy) found herself in a pen as ‘a direct ship horse’ bound for slaughter for human consumption. She is visual impared and is a forever horse at PAH due to her physical limitations BUT now adays you would not know. Her spunk, silliness and gentleness is powerful. When I walked up to her to pet her she put her nose by my breastbone and rested there with just a gentle pressure and her breath reverberated in my heart. It was magical and hard to put into words. 

How we treat animals tells everything about us humans.

I met angels when I volunteered at TCRAS, Teller County Regional Animal Shelter, and I met more here when meeting Nanci and Jim. Plus we met a few volunteers and especially Mike who gave us many background stories, especially about his heart horse Ivy League.