PA Horse Rescues

Horse Rescues

Horse Auctions

Adopting Horses

Donating Horses

Mounted Police Units

Starting A Rescue

Horse Euthanasia

Slaughter is Not For Pet Food!

Rendering Companies

PA Dead Animal Act- Is it Legal to Bury Your Horse?

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Contact the EPN

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PA Horse Rescues

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EPN Provides Sanctuary to Horses

EPN Sanctuary Program

The EPN has established a Sanctuary Program for unwanted, neglected, abused and slaughterbound horses. Horses in the program are not available for adoption, but are in need of people willing to make a financial commitment to help the EPN provide for these horses for the remainder of their lives. Horses accepted into the program must meet certain qualifications. The EPN focuses on horses that have been the victims of neglect and cruelty in situations where there has been an investigation by law enforcement resulting in the forfeiture of the horse due to a court order.

The EPN needs donations to cover the cost of the horses entrusted to our care.
Please send your tax deductible donation to the:

Equine Protection Network, Inc.,
P. O. Box 232, Friedensburg, PA, 17933.

The EPN can only accept a limited number of horses due to financial resources and space limitations. The cost of caring for each of our horses in the program runs $250.00 a month for a total of $3000.00 a year.

Sponsorship

Individual Sponsorships

You can sponsor one of the EPN Sanctuary horses for as little as 1.65 a day! Individual sponsorship does not cover the entire cost of maintaining horses in our program, but it does help to offset the cost. One horse needs five individual sponsors at $50.00 a month to cover the entire cost of caring for one horse. Each of our horses has an important story to tell, please take the time to visit their pages.

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EPN Sanctuary Horses

Codieco	Silver Inflation	Clark
Anastasia	EPN Merchandise Silver Inflation Mousepad! Purchase this mousepad or any of our other merchandise & the EPN earns $2.00 to help us care for & feed the horses.	Triple 8's

You can make monthly automatic payments via PayPal. Just select the horse that you want to sponsor from the drop down list.

A donation of $3000.00 covers all expenses involved in maintaining a horse in the EPN Sanctuary Horse for one year, and provides a website link to your company's website.

Select Horse to Sponsor

Silver Inflation Sanctuary Fund

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Humane Agents and Sanctuaries

The Equine Protection Network, EPN, has compiled this list of contacts. A listing here does NOT mean that the EPN endorses any of these individuals or organizations.

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"As a practicing veterinarian, the bonding and companionship role between horses and their owners has been very evident to me, and is unquestionably as strong as that which occurs between humans and their pet dogs and cats."...Robert M. Miller, D.V.M.

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Cruelty Officers Experienced with Horses

Humane Society Police Officers,(HSPO) in PA are governed under Act 135 0f 1994, Humane Society Police Officer Enforcement Act,Title 3, Section 456.1 et seq.and Title 22,Section 501,et seq.Detectives and Private Police.

PA Humane Society Police Officers have the authority to enforce the cruelty section of the PA Crimes Code, Title 18, Section 5511.

This information has been provided to the EPN by the agencies listed below.

• Report Cruelty Cases involving horses in Berks, Chester, Delaware,Lancaster Counties to:

  Large Animal Protection Society- 610-869-9880
  

 

Note: It is unlikely that LAPS will respond to complaints regarding New Holland Sales Stables. LAPS is no different than the other law enforcement agencies that finds some excuse not to do their job at New Holland Sales Stables. The PA State Police is the only law enforcement agency that performed their duty without excuses. PSP did their job so well that Senator Noah Wenger from the town of New Holland, and also the chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, used his political power to prevent the PSP from doing their job in New Holland.

Every Humane Society Police Officer contacted by the EPN regarding the enforcement of the cruelty law at New Holland Sales Stables and other auctions, sooner or later responded with, "Why don't you get badged and do this job!" The PA State Police never responded to the EPN in that matter - most likely because they knew their job and with assistance from a person familiar with horses they knew the questions to ask to prove the elements of the crime. The PA State Police was the first law enforcement agency to enforce the law against selling sick, lame, and debilitated horses at New Holland Sales Stables because the EPN provided the right question for the troopers to ask the vet to prove the elements of the crime. A question that no PA Humane Society Police Officer with their state mandated training and other training, including experience with horses, knew to ask.

For years the question asked was, "Can the horse make the trip?" The response was almost always, "Yes, as long as the horse is gated separate from the other horses." The EPN pointed out that the correct question to ask was, "Would it be cruel to work or use this horse in the condition it is in right now at the time of sale?" If the answer is "No", then the horse cannot be sold, nor can it be transported unless it is to the nearest appropriate facility for medical care, humane keeping, or destruction. An auction does not meet that definiton, nor does a slaughterhouse hundreds of miles away. Neither does a rescue that is hours away, because it is not, "the nearest appropriaite facility."

• Report Cruelty Cases involving horses in Erie County, PA to:

  Hooved Animal Welfare Council (HAWC)
  
  P.O.Box 7154, Erie, PA 16510
  
  Humane Society Police Officers- Sandy Blount - 814 774-2800
  
  Linda Wheeler
  
  

• Report Cruelty Cases involving horses in Carbon, Monroe, Wayne County, PA to:

  Pocono Animal Rescue, Inc.
  
  PO Box 582
  Bartonsville, PA 18321
  Monroe County, PA
  
  Humane Society Police Officers-Eileen Pasquin and Boyd Gannon, Sr.- 570-476-1464
  
  

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Organizations Working for Enforcement of Cruelty Laws

Florida

Horse Protection Association of Florida

"A horse is a luxury item. You have no business owning them if you can't pay for them. Are we going to give tax breaks to yacht owners, too?" - Morgan Silver

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Texas

Habitat For Horses

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Racehorse and Pony Horses

R.A.C.E Fund, Inc

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Sanctuaries

The EPN defines a sanctuary as a 501c(3) non-profit organization that accepts the donations of horses. The horses remain at the sanctuary's facilities until the horse's death. Sanctuary's do not do adoptions of horses.

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• Ryerss Farm For Aged Equines
  
  Oldest and largest non-profit organization of its kind in the United States.
  Sanctuary for Retired Horses. Horses Must be 20 Years or Older. Donation Required.
  
  
  Pottstown, PA
  610-469-0533
  Joseph Donahue