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yortsed snacilbuper

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Mon Dec 24, 2012, 04:42 PM Dec 2012

As stables fill faster, Equine Angels Rescue in Cabot battles high hay prices!

Butler horse rescue effort needs help
As stables fill faster, Equine Angels Rescue in Cabot battles high hay prices

Pam Vivirito, with the Equine Angels Rescue in Cabot, talks with Kate, a rescued quarterhorse last week. The organization needs extra funding to get it through the winter because feed and hay prices have skyrocketed.

She receives at least one phone call and several Facebook messages a week about horses in need. Over the weekend she added six horses, including a baby found nearly dead lying in manure that needed intravenous transfusion to survive, to her already overflowing 27-stall barn. Three of them alone carried a veterinarian bill of more than $600.

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As stables fill faster, Equine Angels Rescue in Cabot battles high hay prices! (Original Post) yortsed snacilbuper Dec 2012 OP
Poor horses. As tough as it is to find homes TwilightGardener Dec 2012 #1

TwilightGardener

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1. Poor horses. As tough as it is to find homes
Mon Dec 24, 2012, 04:52 PM
Dec 2012

for all the cats and dogs out there, it's got to be ten times harder with horses, mules, etc.

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