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Sunshine Horses Helps People in a Unique Way Sunshine Horses helps people in a Unique Way

By Xavier Brown

XAVIER BROWN:I’m here at the sunshine horses where lead volunteer Jan lower says they Are in need of more volunteers

JAN LOWER: so legs is actually sight compromised and uses this guy as his sight horse

BROWN:Sunshine horses welcomes all breeds, and will try their best with each one.

LOWER: families that want them, come to us and are interviewed we have to approve where the live from now on, we promise the person we take them In from we will give them a forever home

BROWN: Lower former community outreach coordinator, now volunteer since 2008 explains where they find these horses, which could be a a number of places

LOWER: we find them from the race tracks kill pens, people back yards

BROWN: And they end up here, with their own stall personal diets and grooming plans.

BROWN:from volunteers to trainers, they all want the same thing for these horses to find a great home, and get the care that they need

BROWN: Long time trainer Rachel knight says horses have always been in her family, her dad got her started, but admits volunteers have to be prepared, trained, and level headed because things can get frustrating says knight.

RACHEL KNIGHT: being angry where you’re here is not good for the horses were supposed to be helping them as well, even though they are also helping us

BROWN:Most of the grooming is done by the staff or volunteers but for the major things like teeth a dentist comes to float them, which is when they file down the horses teeth to make them as flat and firm as they can, to keep them efficient for chewing

KNIGHT: you have to learn where a horse comes from and who they are in order to completely understand them and to know that every horse is different what’s worked for one isn’t going to work for another, and just to be able to trouble shoot that is a specialized skill

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CLAY , NY   (NCC News):       Sunshine Horses is a non profit organization  that is run entirely by volunteers.  Volunteers they are running short on right now says Jan Lower one of the lead volunteers. Sunshine Horses does not have professional fundraisers  and no one collects a salary. All of the funds collected are used for the horses and the costs that  the farm accrues.

Sunshine horses also helps people.  It has  teamed up with many community affiliates in Onondaga county who work one-on-one with horses. Members of the farm said it is an experience everyone should have. Before COVID-19  the farm had over 400 volunteers that would be on call 365 days a year, now it is  in need of some help.

Volunteers are scheduled to do a variety of things around the farm , including  assisting with rotating  the pasture, moving the horses to different pens to create the feeling of a wild herd migration,  and filling out feeding sheets to keep the horses consistent on their diets.

Sunshine Horses does their best to nurse, rehabilitate and retrain horses so they can be adopted into loving homes. They each horse on their own personal regiment because some need more attention than others. This could be things like grooming, dental care or hoof care.

According to the Humane Society Legislative Fund ,  more than 100,000 horses are unnecessarily slaughtered every year.  On top of that many of them are left behind when they aren’t valuable anymore. Families unable to maintain the costs of having a horse during these tough times, drives those numbers up even more.

Jan Lower the former community outreach coordinator said any help would be appreciated, as well as loving families who are looking to adopt one of the horses they have rehabilitated.

Sunshine Horses does its best to nurse, rehabilitate and retrain horses so they can be adopted into a loving homes, It has each horse on their own personal regiment because some need more attention than others. This could be things like grooming, dental care or hoof care.

Anyone wishing to help the organization can visit them on facebook or at www.sunshinehorses.org for more information.

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