Rescue news - Equine Rescue France

February 2010

Ride and drive Columbus get adopted and moves up to Brittany

January 2010

Trotter mares Lily & Marcy are rehomed together in the Dordogne

November 2009

Donkey friends Daisy & Dora go to their new home in the Haute Vienne countryside

October 2009

Elderly ponies Ossie and Princesse find an adoptive home together in the Charente

Brandy (who was Gucci) is adopted out locally to be companion to another lonely donkey,Phebus

September 2009

Gasparin leaves us to live with his new adoptive family in the Correze

July 2009

Piona & Wilbur go to their new adoptive home in Normandy

Balto & Jenna go to their new adopters in the Charente Maritime

June 2009

ERF take in Gasparin, an overweight Fjord gelding that his owners no longer wanted.

May 2009

Big and beautiful Clydesdale William finds happiness in his new adoptive home on the Charente/Dordogne borders...

April 2009

Maddy, Poppy and Elly are all adopted together and go to live with their new adopters in the Haute Vienne.

Asal gets a new adoptive home in the Vienne to be companion to Boris.

ERF welcomes the beautiful Leon who will be with us whilst his injured leg heals and will then be up for adoption.

FEBRUARY 2009

Goliath has been found a wonderfull home in Carcassonne where he is being used to help youths at risk.

Mimi the mule is currently with us being educated before going to her new adoptive home, her owner could no longer keep her and asked ERF to rehome her.

JANUARY 2009

We were asked to find adoptive homes for shetlands Molly and Merlin and they have now been placed in their new adoptive home in the Haute Vienne.

DECEMBER 2008

Accord, a beautiful young Trakhener gelding who had sadly sustained an injury whilst with his previous owner and needed a peaceful home where he could recuperate. He is now permanently re-homed under contract to a lovely family in the Charente.

AUGUST 2008

Piona, a beautiful Baudet cross whose elderly owner was no longer able to look after her...

JUNE 2008

Nannette, Lena and Belle are saved from going for meat....

Nannette the eldest being in the worst condition with terribly overgrown feet

Lena and Belle are now happily living in their new home in the Vienne

Wilbur, the donkey stallion is saved from his life of misery being shut up in a barn. He too has very seriously overgrown feet and found it difficult to walk. ERF is currently rehabilitating him and he will soon be gelded so that he can be re-homed.

MAY 2008

9 month old donkey Annie was due to go to market where her future would have been very uncertain....we found her a loving home in Brittany where she will live forever.

APRIL 2008

ERF attend St Yrieix horse fair in the Dordogne and bring home 2 skinny frightened ponies, a mum and daughter who we named Ruby and Ebony

Within 4 months the pair are looking so much better and have received plenty of handling at one of our rehab yards.

MARCH 2008

Titos the 2 year old donkey is rescued by ERF just before he was due to depart for the abattoir, the 3 donkeys he was with sadly left just days before. He had lice and was underweight..

4 months later and having received some care and attention (and gelded) Titos is ready to go to his new home in the Dordogne.

JANUARY 2008

ERF rescue Hugo.....see his story here and how one pony went from this to this....

DECEMBER 2007

We are happy to let you know that Mavis has now been rehomed locally and is settling in well. Mavis gave birth to a colt foal in March '08 and can be seen on our blog.

Mavis is 11 yr old Welsh Section D chestnut mare (about 153/4cm, 15.1hh) whose owners are emigrating next week so we urgently need to find her a new home. She has some issues following many years of being used as a broodmare prior to the last owners purchasing her.

NOVEMBER 2007

Chantelle a very poor looking palomino mare is rescued from a life time of breeding foals for the meat industry and is now living in the Charente.

OCTOBER 2007

Roma and Coca now rehomed with Cheryl in the Charente.

AUGUST 2007-DEPT 86

As the local mushroom farmers shut down, their herds of horses bred to produce manure are left without a future. Sadly, 30 from this herd had already been despatched to the abattoir before we heard of them, however after 2 weeks of hard work (along with some incredible highs and lows), we managed to find homes for all the of the remainder. Finally, one Saturday, Trina and Jon loaded the final 8 onto a lorry bound for their new homes in France and the UK. Here are a few pictures of some of the lucky ones that are now enjoying their second chance in new pastures......