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Howdy everyone! Thought you might like to hear the latest on some of the rescue horses!

Click on a name on the bar on the left to read that horse's story. The names in White are horses that have homes. The names in Salmon are horses who are residents of TIER and can be sponsored, or are residing at TIER until a suitable adoptive home can be found. TIER's adoptable horses can be sponsored until they find their forever home. Sponsoring or adopting a TIER horse will allow us to rescue another horse.

Newest Updates!

Lucille: Lucille Has Crossed the Rainbow Bridge

I guess Santa Needed a Helper

Lucille was monitored throughout the night and early morning after the vet gave her some strong pain meds yesterday. Shortly after the vet left, she was up and down. She had difficulty standing for any length of time. She wasn’t ...

Lucille: Prayers Needed for Lucille

Prayers needed for Lucille. Over the past week or so, Lucille has had difficulty with her right knee. We administered pain meds and they seemed to help a bit. But, when the farrier was out, she was unable to bear weight on the leg for very long.

This morning she was ...

Moses: 9/21/2024 The Guardian has left us

9/26/2024 - 9/21/2024 - Moses, the Guardian of the TIER horses, was found dead in his corral. Possible cardiac event. He had been doing poorly for awhile. Foaled 3/23/1992; 32 years, 5 months, 29 days old. 11/8/1998 came to TIER: 25 years, 10 months, 13 days at TIER. I just can't say more ...

Lukas: Lukas is gone

9/24/2024 - 9/24/2024 Over the last year, Lukas had had a mini strokes. The last couple of months he was doing poorly despite our best efforts. 9/24/2024 he was down in his corral and could not get up for some time. He finally got up just before the vet arrived. Vet felt that he had had a major stroke and was ...

CALVIN: I got a friend!

9/2/2024 - CALVIN has a new friend who has been coming out to work with him a bit. He is such a Goober! LOVES the attention, but has “baby brain” and just doesn’t know squat. HA! He’s a sweet big boy though.
He does NOT like to have his hind feet worked on. His new ...

9/2/2024 - LILY was her usual flighty/squirrely self today. Farrier hasn’t been able to catch her the last few times he was out because she would go into full on anxiety. She doesn’t do well with men and is hard to catch anyway. Stephanie came out, spent some time with her, caught her rather quickly (YAY!) ...

Jackie: Jackie not feeling well

JACKIE, the Oatman Burro, is not well

Please send positive thoughts to Jackie as she is not feeling well. She was down this morning and would not even try to get up at first. This is not normal for her at all! At first she was in a sternal position, then she ...

DAWSON: Grayed out

7/10/2024 - New picture from Dana. He looks awesome! Quite the color change from when we got him him in 2020. Dawson, when we first got him from a low end

LEVI: Happy 4th of July LEVI Update

7/4/2024 - From Allie, Levi's adopter: Happy Fourth of July from me and Levi!!! I introduced him to a flag today for the first time; and he didn’t even flinch, he is the most amazing horse ever!!

Moses: 25 years at TIER

11/8/2023 - 25 years ago, (11/8/1998) MOSES came to TIER. He is 31 years old. I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around that.
Moses (Mr. Majesty Native). Thanks to those folks who saw him in a feedlot 25 years ago and stepped up to help him come to TIER. Moses was the very first TIER rescue.

Jolly: Grooming Day

10/22/2023 - From Melissa at Blue Horse Sanctuary: Grooming and fly spray today. He is such a

Jolly: A visit from the tooth Fairy

8/8/2023 - From Melissa at Blue Horse Sanctuary....JOLLY's Forever Home: 8-8-2023 Dental Visit-JOLLY The Dentist had a look at Jolly this morning. It was all good news. He has 3-4 teeth in both upper jaws and 3-4 in both his lower jaws. He said they meet enough to be functional for him and didn’t see anything that would ...

DAWSON: Look At Him Now!

7/10/2023 - When we first got Dawson, he visited Dr. Hoyme who indicated that his leg was either a birth defect or that he had had an accident when he was younger that causes his leg to bow and sometimes causes him to be unsteady. Xrays showed injury was too old to do anything about. Dr. Hoyme told us he wouldn’t be and ...

Katrina: Katrina has crossed the Rainbow Bridge

5/9/2023 - 10 years ago, On 5/22/2013 Katrina left TIER to live out her life at the awesome Duchess Sanctuary. 5/9/2023 From The Duchess Sanctuary
(Katrina - Grey Mare on Left and her Friend Captain at the Duches Sanctuary) Yesterday we said goodbye to Katrina and Captain. Our elderly Captain has been ...

4/27/2023 - BEAU: He is doing great. Fortunately, Donkey (Kathy’s donkey) didn’t dissolve his friendship/play antics with BEAU after finally teaching GUS how to play. In fact, BEAU & Donkey’s clowning around continues with exuberance. Kathy said they were running up and down the pasture goofing ...

4/27/2023 - This old boy continues to blossom as evidenced by his picture. A complete change in his physical health from when you helped rescue him and he was so close to dying. It really took GUS a long, long time physically to mend. He now plays with Donkey at times and remains the sweet boy he has always ...

Jolly: Colic Scare!

4/27/2023 - JOLLY: This poor horse! Our last update showed how well he was doing now that he is getting regular meals that he can actually eat. He eats twice as much as GUS in soaked senior feed, hay pellets. Kathy found him lying down in his corral one morning looking very uncomfortable. Jolly ...

Jolly: Can't Believe My Eyes!

4/10/2023 - The last update on Jolly was 4/4/2023. In that update there were pictures of JOLLY from 3/29/2023. We stated that he had come a long way in his recovery and that he still had a long ways to go. Today he has 117 days of recovery from the starvation/neglect. Almost 4 months since he arrived at ...

4/4/2023 - BEAU continues to thrive! The first year after he was removed from the kill pen was a doozy. Poor boy was literally at death's door. Thanks to our supporters and Kathy at Starburst Ranch where he is retired, this lovely old man is in the best shape he could be in for his age. Vet said his age was: ...

Special thanks to:

Henderson Ranch
Horse Boarding & Care in Gavilan Hills, CA

True Innocents Equine Rescue (T.I.E.R)

17130 Van Buren Blvd., #45
Riverside, CA, 92504
Tel: 951-943-0627

E-mail: tier@TIERRescue.org

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