Update on ASAP

The following horses need relocating as quickly as possible, to new homes or foster homes, if you can help?
Ginger and Solomon (urgent situation) - Palmyra area
Thunder - Blanchardville
Sugar - Blanchardville
Allie - Blanchardville
Goodnight Starship - Lake Geneva WI area
Jumbo Shrimp - Baraboo
Spect's Solution and Flaunting It - Stoddard
Honey Fitz, A Team Hall, and Kings Royal Fella - all in Stoddard
3 new horses from Illinois - Lockport area
Six horses coming back from summer pasture including Strawberry Jacki and Little John
Stylish Sharon, Bob Cook, Apples, Arne
Miss Molly P at ASAP farm

Still waiting to be adopted from placing homes:
Onthewayagain
Ooops
Code Zero N - all currently in Illinois

I think that is even a partial list! Help us if you can!

Congratulations to Ray and Alice for going to a driving competition a couple of weeks ago. Pete and Ray took third place! (Pistol Pete that is!).

Congratulations also to Mollie Roehl and Squire One for taking first place at their first walk-trot competition last weekend!

We did an impulsive thing and took off Friday night for the southern state of Alabama. You see, we sold our horse trailer and wanted to find something less expensive that would suit our needs. We knew we needed a four horse and not a six horse. We would have loved to have had living quarters, but that would put us back into debt again. Our goal was to pay off what we owed on our trailer, which wasn't much, and buy something about half price. We found one! Okay, so we had to travel a wee bit to get it, but it was so worth it! We came home with an older Featherlite with partial living quarters and even an awning that is in awesome shape! I would recommend Kelly's Trailer Sales in Alabaster, Alabama to anyone. They were the friendliest, most conscientious trailer sales people we have ever dealt with. We cannot thank them enough. Along the way, we took pictures of cotton fields and other things we saw. We stopped in Nashville and ate seafood buffet at Shoney's. It was a whirlwind trip and we are a little punchy today. So worth it, though!

Thank you to Carmen for fostering FOUR horses for ASAP! Thank you to Andrea for continued fostering of JB, the buckskin mare, and the little colt. Thanks to all of you who continue to care for the horses when it is hard -

Thanks to Balmoral Park who will host next June's 5K run for the horses, with ASAP as beneficiary of the event!

Anyone interested in going to Balmoral for a Christmas get-together this year? Let me know - we could arrange a sulky suite and have a blast watching the races!!

More soon,
Susan

Busy Place

I am sitting in my green chair in the living room watching Rachel still asleep and watching Christian television programs with Zach. Craig is sick, so we won't be going to church. The sun is shining outside and Packers play at noon. I am drawn outside to ride - maybe later?

It's been a busy weekend, beginning with Friday. The channel 8 WKBT camera arrived at noon. I was blessed enough to have Amy here, as well as Whitney and Heidi (two high schoolers who were here doing a service learning project). Rachel came home from school and was filmed riding Remmie. Chief and Taser Gun made the spotlight too! We also went over to Ursula's farm and filmed Arne, Bob Cook, Steelin Apples, Stylish Sharon, Little John and Strawberry. People cannot help but stare at the old race injuries on Bob Cook and Arne. Arne's hock has a great deal of scar tissue and is extremely large. He has some bad days where he holds his leg up, when the arthritis is flaring up. Bob Cook's fetlock is large, and sometimes he hops on three legs. We have accustomed ourselves to seeing them this way, but to others it can be disturbing. I wonder to myself how we are going to bring six more horses back from this pasture and where they will go on the farm. I need to have faith that some will find homes before winter sets in.

Our foster families are stretched to their limits as well. If you see it in your hearts to help either Carmen in Minnesota (currently has Dolly's Delight and Cape Cruiser and may end up taking Bart's A Bad Boy and Race For Home), or Marie near Madison (Allie, Comet, Sugar, Thunder, Fox Valley Terror) I would be happy to give you their direct email addresses. Marie needs to relocate Allie and Fox Valley Terror more urgently than the rest.

We have waived adoption fees on the following horses as of today:
Allie
Thunder
Sugar
Bart's A Bad Boy
Race for Home
JB
Jumbo Shrimp
Of course, all people receiving a horse at no cost must have an application on file and be an approved adopter. If you would like to foster, please contact me!!!

Thanks to Lori H. and the gentleman from Galesville for their donations on chipin.com

Thanks to Ray and Alice for taking such good care of Cams Matte Finish for the past several weeks!

We sold our trailer on Saturday so now I am almost in a state of panic without one. I feel as though we have lost our horse getaway vehicle...........but we are working with families who have four horse trailers for sale to see which one would be the best fit for our family. Wish us luck!

I'll let you know what happens.
Susan

Chipin.com

News and Views

It has been a horrific two weeks in Wisconsin. First the big winds came on the weekend of our anniversary the end of September. It shuttled in the colder temperatures, and we haven't been able to shake the cold, rain, and, today, SNOW since! Arizona here I wanna come!!!!! Still, we have to brave all the conditions to care for the animals here at ASAP.

Rachel braved the cold to go to the Retreat World's Fair in our area last weekend and competed in a horse show. She brought home another trophy for the walk/trot class and had a second and third place in other classes. That's my girl! She decided to have a sleepover that night, and you can see pictures of her two friends and her having a facial-too funny!

Since we have a hay shortage, and a money shortage, we made a decision to board a few horses to keep some form of income coming to the farm. I also contacted the USTA, and Hoofbeats is doing a feature article on Taser Gun and Timesarechanging in their next issue! I got some great pictures of Amy A. riding Taser this past weekend, and forwarded the only picture I have of me sitting on Times. Hoofbeats is interviewing Amy (friend and volunteer for ASAP) and Tracy B (trainer who donated Times)so be sure to get your issue of Hoofbeats next month!

Another golden egg happened this week. WKBT Channel 8 in La Crosse has agreed to come out and do a story on ASAP!!! This is very exciting and will, hopefully, bring more local support from our community. After all, if the humane society in La Crosse is getting a story about rabbits that were surrendered there last week and needing supplies for them, how much more is our need for 1000# animals that need to eat? WKBT is very motivated to do this story, and we are grateful for that!

The weekend brought one young man who was doing a community service project for extra credit at his school, and one young lady who is a real fan of ASAP and is planning on adopting a horse by next month. Then Amy came to ride Taser Gun despite that awful, chilly wind. At least the sun shone through the clouds a few times that day.

We are in the process of selling our six horse trailer and downsizing in size and price of a trailer that will work for ASAP and our family. The shopping is kind of fun, we must admit!

Please please please don't forget to vote on theanimalrescuesite.com
click on the tab that says Animal Shelter, then type in American Standardbred Adoption and WI and vote every day! Each vote really can make a difference!

Enjoy the pictures.
Hugs,
Susan