The Story of New Hope Ranch

New Hope Ranch is a hooved animal rescue with an emphasis on not only treating the physical mistreated and abused animals but also the mental aspect of not being wanted.  We are committed in screening for new homes and placing these friends where they can live their lives without the threat of beings shipped off and being slaughtered in an inhumane way.  Our passion is to help all and we are very successful in getting animals adopted and monitored.

We believe in keeping the environment for the animals as nature intended by allowing these hooved animals to live in a herd environment as much as possible.  Our most recent rescue, Barnum, is a four year old appendix quarter horse that was in a 12 x 12 pipe corral, off by himself, in deplorable conditions and lacking weight of at least 200 pounds.  He was developing some neurotic behaviors of constantly pawing the ground and sliding his teeth back and forth across the bars like a prisoner would do with a tin cup trying to get attention and food.  As with all newcomers to our facility, Barnum was placed in an area by himself, but close enough, so he had stable mates but not able to touch other horses until our Vet, Dr. Lane Kihlstrom said that Barnum was healthy to be placed in with the herd.  Once, introduced and allowed to be a horse among his peers, slowly his neurotic tendencies disappeared and he has become strong, beautiful horse with a very affectionate attitude and a bright future, despite his less than perfect start in life.

We also acquired a 29 year old mare.  Most of her life was working with troubled inner city teens teaching them to ride and often was the shoulder for them to cry on.  This horse no longer was needed in an individual’s opinion and we could only speculate as to what her destiny was.  We will strive to find her a loving and crying home, but she may live the rest of her life at our facility.  Service animals especially have earned and deserve more than to be cast aside.

Shasta became the inspiration to start New Hope Ranch.  (Her story is on our website.)  Not only did we help Shasta, we went after the owner who created this nightmare and saw to it she was punished within the legal system.  She spent a year in the county jail, along with three years probation.  As part of our Mission Statement, we not only help the animals, but do our best to see to it the previous owners are prosecuted to the fullest.

We approach all our rescues with a common sense approach.  Some animals are beyond hope.  We do our best to help those that can be helped, but we also don’t want animals to suffer needlessly.  With the advice of our veterinarian, Dr. Lane Kihlstrom, we sometimes have to make tough decisions.  We don’t believe in letting any animal suffer due to our inability to say enough is enough.

We have numerous animals up for adoption, and there is a great need to help more.  In the depressed economy, we are seeing a tremendous amount of neglected animals, especially horses.  They are usually the first to suffer the most.  Our funds are limited.  This is where you as financial donors can help.  We have the room to help more, but we need donations to accomplish this.  We have great volunteer help at our facility.  We are always open for more.

We are a 501(c)(3).  Your tax deductible donations would be greatly appreciated and would go 100% directly to the animals.  We also have a program of sponsoring individual animals if someone wants to follow the progress of an individual animal.

If you have any questions about our facility, or if you would like to make a donation (click here), or contact us at our email address or phone us at 928-636-2230.  Remember, as economic times grow worse, so does the suffering of the animals.

Please help our four legged hooved friends.  They are depending on us as we  have depended on them.

Heidi Anderson, CSR, RPR
Owner, New Hope Ranch