The very finest for you and your horse Western ~ English 11515 E. Trent ~ Spokane Valley, WA 99206 509-927-5891 sales@spokanetacktrunk.com www.spokanetacktrunk.com
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Boarding, Farriers & Training REINING CLINIC with Tony Kirschner at Busy Bee Ranch, June 22-23. We will be covering all reining maneuvers & running a pattern. $150 for the weekend. For more information call Tony, 509884-8514 KIDS HORSE RIDING Camps. Age 6-14 all levels from first time to advanced. Horse provided. Call now, dates fill fast. 9am-3pm, June 25-27, July 9-11, July 23-25. West Valley Farm, 509926-8309
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TRAINING, LESSONS, Clinics. Call Gerry Cox, Mountain House Stables, 509-685-1977. www.MountainHouseStables.com or www.youtube.com/gcoxalaska
HORSE SALE
MOSES LAKE MARKET
Sunday, June 30 Tack will sell from 11am-1pm USED TACK & OTHER MISC. ITEMS WELCOME! Horse Sale will start
2pm SHARP! 14372 N. Frontage Rd. E. Moses Lake, WA For information call Tony Favero
509-750-5800
marcy.buys@hotmail.com EXCELLENT QUALITY Reg. AQHA & APHA horses for sale. Also standing three awesome stallions at stud. Please visit our website for details, www.CSPaintQuarterHorses.com 509-2207712 Elk
WILL ROGERS SADDLE Co. Stop in today for your best deal on a saddle! Several different kinds of trail saddles in stock now: Martin saddlery, Crates, Tucker & Circle Y. We have English saddles & tack, new & used. Fly sheets now in. Show sheets, all sheets in stock now & more coming in. Fly masks & grooming products all coming in! We offer discounts for high school equestrian teams & 4H members! Buy, sell, trade. Become our friend on Facebook for daily deals! www.WillRogersSaddle.com 509466-0106 Mead ACTRA TEAM ROPING, Colville Valley Roping Club, June 29, 295 Aladdin Rd, Colville, WA 99114. 10am, buckles awarded. Contact 509-6802145, colvillevalleyropingclub@gmail.com SAVE YOUR FAMILY from becoming your lifetime caretaker. Wear a helmet on horseback NORTHWEST TRAILS Boarding happy healthy horses. Excellent care, recommended by Deer Park Vet Clinic. Catering to those who really care for their horse’s well being. Large, lighted arena, three round pens, large paddocks & pastures with shelter. Endless miles of beautiful trail riding. Natural Horsemanship training & lessons available, friendly, helpful atmosphere. www.northwesttrails.com 509-276-6345 Deer Park WE CAN START YOUR Ranch roping horse, develop confidence in your dressage horse & train solid trail horses; Common sense training with Rob Dotts & Sally Shepard, a team of trainers with more than 45 years of experience; no gimmicks used, just good horsemanship. Northwest Trails, Deer Park 509-2766345
Pack & Tack Swap Sat. June 22, 2013 • 9am-2pm Early Bird Fee Saturday 8am
Consignment Check in Friday, June 21, 2013 • 12am-5pm Special Consignments by Will Rogers Saddle Co. & Spokane Tack Trunk
At Smart Gardens Nursery 7015 N Argonne
Sponsored By North Idaho Saddle Mule Club Clean, Quality, Equine Tack & Camping Gear
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2000 REG. PALOMINO TW mare, Natural Horsemanship training, great fast walk & steady on the trail; Intermediate rider, see her on Dreamhorse, Horse ID 1875392 Chincas Incah Doll, $1600, to good home only. Evenings/weekends, 509-244-6273 Airway Heights NEED A GREAT VET for your horse? Mobile Horse Vet for all your equine medicine, surgery, dentistry, performance & podiatry service. Equine Associates, Dr. Rick Williams. 20 years experience as an equine specialist. 509-370-1922
HORSE TRAINING AT Three Knight Stables in Athol, ID. Creating a calm, confident horse under saddle. Contact Abby, 208-683-0372 2004 TRAILS WEST 3 horse slant gooseneck trailer with mid-tack & huge dressing room with built-ins. This trailer is in excellent condition & is stored all winter. We would consider trading for a good 2 horse in good condition & some money exchange. Price reduced, $13,500. 509276-8111; 509-6383263, theemaven@alrandall.com
REG. 11 YEAR old 1/2 Arab mare. Loads, hauls, crosses water, stands for farrier, trained English jumping & rides western. Videos avail, asking $1200, negotiable. 509301-3270. r.reed2002@gmail.com WESTERN DRESSAGE Group Lesson, every Monday evening, 7pm-8:30pm. ARIA certified instructor, NAWD Clinician, Cowboy Dressage instructor. $25 per horse & rider combination. Relational Riding Academy, 11724 N. Forker Road, Spokane Valley. Call to register, 509-290-4301
ELK’S FAMILY FUN Ride. Heyburn State Park, approx. 5 miles east of Plummer, ID. June 29th, 8am. Free parking available for the day. $5 per hand, lunch available for $6. All proceeds go to Veterans Memorial Park in St. Maries. Kenny Moore, 208-568-1592 HORSE BOARDING AT Three Knights Stables across the street from Farragut State Park in Athol, Idaho. Indoor riding arena. Please call or email to inquire about prices and availability. 208-683-0372 or threeknightsstables@gmail.com
Book Review
Horse Sanctuary by Allison Milionis & Karen Tweedy-Holmes
Universe Publishing, Division of Rizzoli International Publications, Inc 300 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10010 www.rizzoliusa.com ISBN—13:978-0-7893-2478-8 * LCCCN: 2012948493 Copyright 2013, 256 pages, hardback, 9”x11” * $40.00 Book designed by Susi Oberhelman; edited by Candice Fehrman; foreword by Temple Grandin The iconic Temple Grandin sets the tone for Horse Sanctuary in its foreword by saying “...equine rescues and sanctuaries are not a solution to the problem of neglect and abuse...” but the dedicated efforts of devoted people make an individual difference for each animal they help and love. Author Allison Milionis' introduction names the solution, “All of the rescuers we met agreed that education is the only way to change cultural attitudes toward equines and that another generation may pass before such change is effected.” Rhonda Urquhart of the Oregon satellite of Peaceful Valley Donkey Rescue reaffirms the author, “Education is the key to changing the way people think about donkeys.” The authors' broad goal is to make readers understand what a sanctuary is, what makes people pursue rescue work, and what organizational changes are happening to help equines from terrible situations. They advocate domestic animal euthanasia versus slaughter in kill pens; the prevention of neglect and abandonment; and the protection of endangered and orphan foals created by the pregnant mare urine industry. They strive to reduce the use of horses for drug traffic and deplore the lack of care for injured equines discarded by the race horse industry. They hope their story of survival will hearten awareness. The general public is insufficiently aware of the harsh repercussions resulting from a lack of these goals and the failure to alleviate cruelty to animals. This book is for people who are receptive once they know about the problem and are willing to address it. The photographic content is the joyous feature of Horse Sanctuary while the textual content brings out the serious, heart rending facts. Susi Oberman was responsible for the contextual design of the book and, in combination with Candice Fehrman, the project editor, they were able to contrast the joyful photos with the serious text in a successful effort to inform and fuel the public potential for positive change. The Sanctuary Contact Information in the reference digest lists the 13 organizations covered in the book plus an additional 37 sanctuary contacts in 18 American states and Canada. The authors build on each of the main 13 segments to gradually educate the reader. Facilities range from small (2.5 to 8 acres), to several (50-100), to 140 acres for 500 donkeys, on to the 70,467 acre Theodore Roosevelt National Park preserve for the Nokota horses in North Dakota. The number of equines rescued ranges from a few to 20 or 30, to 50 or 100 or more. Rescue numbers depend upon several factors carefully pointed out for each facility. Since the financial collapse of 2008 and the strife economics experienced by the horse industry's loss of economic footing since, there are limits to the number of equines each facility can find, rescue, maintain, rehabilitate, and relocate. The authors' research on facility operation brings clarity to risks for success. Generation of operating revenue through various programs and extensive fundraising strategies is a commonality of each sanctuary. It costs money to alleviate cruelty to animals. High cost is a constant challenge for abandoned, injured, neglected, abused, underweight, or rejected equines, since they all need space, feed, hay, farriers, veterinarians, caretakers, etc. Fundraisers are common to attract grants, corporate donations, sponsors. Gift programs,
direct mailing, Facebook merchandising, web publishing, and purchases of sundry paraphernalia are fund sources. Many facilities offer foster care, quarantine, in-place rescue, sale of used tack, silent auctions of donated horses, special events, mare leasing, transport, as well as special placement. Adoption is the primary fundraiser. Some facilities achieve an admirable rate of up to 73% for adoption & placement. Others sustain permanent equine residents to live out their lives. Teaching is a common, prevalent operating revenue generator. Summer camps, clinics, internships, student memberships, horsemanship and riding lessons, and contributions or certification from various support groups. Some qualify as institute centers for farriers and veterinarians; rehabilitation centers for veterans; training centers for prisoners; and therapy centers for the healing arts for adults and children, and all those people who can benefit through experience with equines. Ingredients of Karen Tweedy-Holmes' photographic content are easy to identify: ardency for subject; devotion to art; and unique expertise. 230 superb photos are tabulated; 117 regular inserts embedded in text and caption; 76 full glossies with a dynamic front jacket and tranquil back; and 37 broadside doublets overcoming the viewer with luxuriance. Melded by subject they variously depict sanctuary facilities, equines, and rescuers, each conveying a determinant significance worthy of study and admiration. She travelled 16,000 miles to mix her ingredients from the 13 selected sanctuaries. Wherever a page is turned in Horse Sanctuary, inspirational and joyous photographic panoply is found. Thorough research posits Allison Milionis' textual content. She could not have chosen a better bibliographical basis, from Anna Sewell's Black Beauty written in 1877, to J. Frank Dobie's The Mustangs (1934) to a preponderant 22 references published in the last decade. Her text is meticulous prose in the correct vernacular, without superficiality. Interviews with the rescuers and volunteers are concisely rendered and purposeful to the book's integrated educational process. Horse Sanctuary is about dedicated people. Who they are and what they do could not have been brought out more favorably. Profiles of their organizations are formatted with comparable statistics like number of horses, amount of resources, charitable proclivity, geography, longevity, etc. Thanks to her talented writing methodology, the sanctuaries are easy to compare and study. Readers will ultimately realize that there are no bad horses, only bad cultural situations brought on by ineffectual people. Where the serious issues of orphan foals, injured and discarded race horses, endangered mustangs, healing arts for children, equine therapy for prisoners, kill pens, vanishing breeds, etc. are concerned, she conveys a tireless advocacy without being tiresome to the reader. Allison Milionis will be at Auntie's Bookstore Tuesday, June 25, 2013 for a reading, signing and question and answer session. I found myself in clear appreciation for what she and Karen Tweedy-Holmes and their entire book team have produced. Fasten the gate, Bob Howdy, PhD
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