Lilo...the pony...

I just received this email update about Lilo...the pony we rescued back in December of 2007. Happy endings like this are what keeps us going and no paycheck could ever equal the feeling when get when we get emails like this...read on...

Jo Deibel



From Email from Liz:

Here are two pictures of Bella and a hippotherapy session. Thought you may want to see her at work. Notice how she does not even care that he is not sitting on her the "right way". She really loves the kids. She is helping these kids in ways that I cannot describe. She is helping with trunk control, confidence and balance issues. The parents and Physical Therapist and I can see a difference from the first time a child had a lesson and 8 weeks later.





I cannot thank the heavens enough when I contacted you to ask about a pony. It was meant to be.

I have a little girl Faith that takes a hippotherapy lesson on her. Her story is a long one, but to keep it short, She lost oxygen to her brain for 10 min. She is a lovely little girl. When she was born she had a twin that did not make it called Isabella, Bella for short. Faith is only 4 and will be 5 in Sept., Bella our pony is only 4 and now will share Faiths birthday on Sept 6th. Her mom and I think that Bella is her sister in spirit and is watching over her.

Her and Freedom must know they came from the same place. He truly loves her and plays with her and protects her. She and him are always in a stall together. I was watching them yesterday play. She trots off and he canters around her.

Thanks again for two truly wonderful equines and friends!!

Liz



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Angel Acres 1st Day at MD State Fair!

Good Morning and Happy Saturday!

Our first day at the State Fair was great!

We would like to thank Fran for all of her amazing help with getting us ready for the fair...she is the push we need to "get it done!"

Big thanks to Lizzie & Aaron for manning the booth whilst we toiled here at the rescue.

Big Big Big thanks to Chuck and Laurie from Signsations for the Angel Acres Banner!! Chuck was running ragged gettng stuff ready for our free raffle for a basket of goodies.

Details about the raffle will be posted this evening...I am not sure of all the goodies that are in the basket! I do know so far there is a Gourment Cake, Gift Certificates to Michaels Cafe, Dead Freddies, Dominicks, Sanders Restuarant, Exotic Aquatics and more...be sure to stop by and fill out a ticket!

Thank you to everyone who donated items for the raffle!! There may be one more BIG surprise for the raffle coming...we will let you know!

Thank you to Kathy and Jim (Jo's parents) for coming in after a hard days work to man the booth during the evening.

Okey dokey...Nemo the pony had a showing today...and we are now off to tend to the noon time chores...

Have a great Saturday everyone!

Jo & Patty
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Maryland State Fair

Angel Acres will be at the Maryland State Fair from today until September 1, 2008.

Be sure to come out and meet Jo, Patty and all the Angel Acres volunteers!

Our newest rescue mare (barn name pending) is pictured above with Jo...this is AFTER 1 month of quarantine board.

She is a super duper sweet big mare!!

Saved in conjunction with Mid Atlantic Horse Rescue with funds raised in memory of Eight Belles.

She is going to make someone very, very happy!

Ms. Thing goes on her own...

Good Morning!

Well, Ms. Thing decided that she would rather not wait for me to get out to feed breakfast! She untied her stall and mosied up the hill to the hay bale waiting for morning feeding. THIS is what happens when I am 30 mins late for breakfast! LOL! Horses on the loose...well, horses being pokey searching for hay!

Ms. Thing is a 30 year old retired (she does do babysitting for some of our rescue horses) grade horse with tons of personality. She is recovering from an ulcer on her eye and a wound under her forelock. We think she may have scratched it on a fence post. She wears a fly mask so we are still not sure how she got it the injury.

Angel Acres own Dr. Wells will be out to recheck her boo boo's tomorrow.

Have a great day everyone!

Maryland State Fair

Hi Everyone,

Be sure to come and see us at the MD State Fair! We will be there from August 22 to September 1, 2008 from 10 am till 10 pm. We will be helping to raise awareness about the need for horse rescue and raising awareness about the plight of horses in America.

We will have some new adoption updates this weekend too!!

Check out Liesha & Markie on the www.homesforhorses.org web site!

More to follow soon...

Jo Deibel
Angel Acres Horse Haven Rescue

Boo Boo Baby

Hi Everyone!


Many of you probably remember Boo Boo Baby who arrived at Angel Acres last month. He is the 17.1 hand chestnut Thoroughbred gelding that had the severe head injury.


He has made a simply fantastic recovery and is now up to date on shots, teeth, deworming and his tooties will be done tomorrow evening...he will then be ready for adoption!













Here are two of his photos from yesterdays training session!




















Thank you for reading!

Jo Deibel

Aug. 3, 2008

Greetings!! I apologize for the lateness of my blog but lots has been happening at Angel Acres and I have been out of town for a few days.

Welcome Home KC

Let me start out first by saying that KC has been adopted. If you have been reading our website KC has not been posted yet. He was in terrible condition when rescued at New Holland several weeks ago. Jo wasn’t going to post him until we could get him back in good shape.Jackie and I have been working tirelessly to try and get weight on him.

Bobbi, an experienced “horseman”, stepped up on Friday and adopted KC, her second Angel Acres horse. She had met KC several weeks ago while helping us with that barn while Jackie was shipping horses for Jo. I know her very well and can personally attest that she is the BEST!! She just happens to be my barn manager!!

After Bobbi picked up KC at Jackie’s barn (Jackie is our trainer) she rode in the trailer with her new “child” over to her farm where her 2 horses, Rumor (adopted from Angel Acres) and Thunder (26 years old), were awaiting. Her barn is only about 15 minutes from our satellite farm in Sparks. Bobbi said all 3 of her horses had a wonderful first meeting and ran off together in the field. A little bit later Bobbi walked out to check out something in the run in shed.

KC came over to her and put his head on her shoulder as if to say, “Thank you for helping me!” Immediately Bobbi started to cry and told him that she wished that she could save them all!! Hey Bobbi! on behalf of Jo, Jackie and me we cannot say enough about how excited and happy we are for KC and you. He couldn’t have found a better home!!

Moving Day
Speaking of homes we have now relocated a few of our horses to another farm in the Monkton area. The farm where we were previously located is up for sale. Thanks to the kindness of some folks in Monkton we are now housing 3 of our horses at Camelot Farm. Jackie and I took Goldie (my special boy), Mojo and George over on Friday. The trip was uneventful with the exception of Mojo’s antics. He doesn’t like to load so Jackie had to blindfold him and back him up the ramp. It took a few minutes longer but we got him loaded.

They love their new field so much so they have no interest in coming into the barn. This is a great farm with lots of grass which the other farm lacked. They immediately cantered all along their pasture. Wish I had had a video camera so I could post their “first gallop”. It was quite a sight. Many thanks to Camelot for their kindness.






State Fair
I also want to remind anyone in the Md. area not to miss our booth at the Md State Fair at the Timonium Fairgrounds in Timonium, Maryland beginning Aug 22- Sept. 1. (Labor Day) We will be in the Exhibition Hall selling our decorated horse shoes. These are worn shoes that were donated to us. Thanks to Greg, Jo’s husband, they are buffed and painted. Jo is quite the artist and decorates them. Hope to see you there.


Volunteers
Thank you to our newest volunteers .Thank you Renee from the York Development Center. Your group has been SO helpful with helping us to care for our horses and our decorated horse shoes. Also a big thanks to Bobbie and her daughter Kimmie from Baltimore. They have come out several times to help us with stalls, hay, horses, etc. at our Sparks, Freeland and Monkton facility. And Angela Douty’s Pony Club visited Jo at the Pa. farm on Friday. Thank you all so much for your help. We are so very appreciative.

If anyone reading this is interested in volunteering at one of our farms- Freeland, Monkton, Sparks or Pa. please drop Jo an email.
All for now- Fran