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Fitch
"Forever Young"
June 16. 2006 - March 5, 2007
Fitch fought his potential abductors and by doing so he saved the life of his brother Abercrombie.
Unfortunately Fitch could not recover from the injuries he received from these cruel and heartless people and he succumbed.
Fitch lost his battle for life on March 5, 2007 at 11:56pm at the University of Georgia.
Rest in Peace Dear Brave Fitch... For you we will continue to fight!!!
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SAVE THE HORSES BRACELETS
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Let them be born without fear, let them live a life of peace,
and please, when it is time, let them die as they lived;
fearless, painless and peaceful.
Pure Thoughts is an all volunteer 501c3 non-profit organization dedicated to saving the lives of horses, yearlings and foals that were bound for the foreign owned slaughterhouses in our country. These horses would have been brutally tortured and slaughtered so that they could be served as a delicacy in foreign countries. In addition we also rescue horses from starvation, abuse and neglect, any horse in need. We haved saved over 1200 innocent equines and as long as these cruel acts continues we will continue to fight for the horses. We cannot do this alone...we need your help!! Please help us and others save these beautiful animals
and please remember in your thoughts the ones we were unable to reach.
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Time has run out for these horses. They are at the slaughterhouse awaiting processing...
Healthy, kind and once loved horses. How did they end up here?
SAVING THE LIFE OF A HORSE MAY NOT CHANGE THE WORLD
BUT IT WILL CHANGE THAT HORSE'S WORLDI want to help the horses
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FL Thoroughbred Rehab & Placement
PLEASE HELP THOROUGHBREDS RACING IN FLORIDA |
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For Immediate Release
Phelps Media Group, Inc. International
Phelps Media Group proudly supports the efforts
of Pure Thoughts Horse and Foal Rescue.
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Media Contact: Jennifer Swanson
Pure Thoughts, Inc.
phone 561.753.6555
jennifer@purethoughtshorserescue.com
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Pure Thoughts Inc. expands OTTB Division
for Florida Racetracks
Florida Thoroughbred Rehab and Placement Program Launches with First Two Horses
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 March 27, 2009 - West Palm Beach, FL -- Go Smarty Go by Smarty Jones and Brave & Skillful by Silver Deputy are the first Off-Track Thoroughbreds (OTTB) to arrive at Pure Thoughts Inc.'s expanded Thoroughbred Program.
The decision came from observations made over the past 5 years pulling OTTB's from the auctions and killpens. After representatives from Pure Thoughts Inc. Horse & Foal Rescue recently attended the races at Gulfstream Park to watch Nicanor, brother of the legendary Barbaro, run his first race, it became apparent to us that much of the deterioration a race horse goes through is in the hauling to Northern auctions and the elements they are exposed to at these auctions as well as the risk of going to slaughter. Through recent research we have found that there are few groups in Florida dedicated to only OTTB's. The organization decided that there is a definite need for the horses racing at the Florida tracks including Calder, Gulfstream Park and Tampa Bay Downs.
Pure Thoughts, Inc. Horse and Foal Rescue has spent the last 6 1/2 years pulling horses from slaughter as well as taking in horses from abuse and neglect. Two months ago, the organization, with the help of others in the racing industry decided to expand the Thoroughbred Division for the horses at Florida tracks. Just this past week Miami's WTVJ/NBC, Channel 6 special projects reporter Jeff Burnside, reported a large, growing and illegal horse slaughter industry in South Florida. Horses are being tied to trees and slaughtered.
"They are poachers from Miami's black market who sell the horses' meat, which is a popular delicacy among new arrivals from other countries to the area. The horse meat can go for as much as $20 per pound and based on the number of bloody horse remains and meat-stripped carcasses found on the side of dirt roads and in stables across Miami-Dade, harvesting horses for meat is a lucrative business," reported Burnside.
There are also kill buyers here picking up horses throughout the state from racetracks and auctions and sending them to larger slaughter houses in Mexico and Canada.
Brave & Skillful was saved from going to auction by a group of people dedicated to the welfare of the racehorses. He arrived at Pure Thoughts, Inc. three weeks ago. Go Smarty Go was seriously injured in his last race at Belmont Park and his owners opted for surgery. Go Smarty Go was placed in rehab and after a successful recovery his owners have decided to retire him. He will finish out his rehabilitation at Pure Thoughts, Inc., after which he will be retrained as a riding horse and one day be placed in his forever home. All horses are placed with a strict adoption contract including a no breeding, no racing clause.
For more information on Pure Thoughts Inc.'s Florida Thoroughbred Rehab and Placement you may email FLTRP@PureThoughtsHorseRescue.com. To donate you may visit www.PTHR.org or mail to Pure Thoughts Inc. Horse & Foal Rescue, 19181 Capet Creek, Loxahatchee, FL 33470 Attn: Thoroughbred Rehab and Placement. You may also contact B. Moline at 772-485-3799.
Pure Thoughts Inc. is an all-volunteer 501c3 non-profit organization dedicated to saving the lives of horses, yearlings and foals that were intended to go to slaughter for human consumption. These horses would have been brutally tortured and slaughtered. Pure Thoughts Inc. Horse & Foal Rescue also rescues horses from starvation, abuse and neglect, any horse in need. To date, over 1350 innocent equines have been saved and we will continue to fight for the horses. Please help us and others save these beautiful animals and please remember in your thoughts the ones we were unable to reach.
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A Second Chance for These Magnificent Horses!!
Brave & Skillful Meets Go Smarty Go
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For questions or adoption information, please contact
Pure Thoughts, Inc. Email Jennifer
or
jennifer@PureThoughtsHorseRescue.com
561-951-2108 - 561-254-0415
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We would be happy to accept any size donation to help the horses and foals.
Mail your tax-deductable check to
Pure Thoughts, Inc - Foal Rescue Foundation
19181 Capet Creek, Loxahatchee, FL 33470
Click to join FoalRescueFoundation
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Help Make Dreams Come TrueSponsorship Package 
Pure Thoughts has developed a sponsorship program specific to last month’s “Miracle Save.” An individual or organization may sponsor one of the rescue horses for a donation of $500. In return, you’ll feel great about having joined our efforts. You’ll also receive a sponsorship package including a bottle of wine with a picture of your sponsored horse on the label. You will also receive a keepsake horseshoe (one actually pulled from the “Miracle Save” group, decorated by a Florida artist, along with a framed picture and a description of your special horse. You will also have the option of becoming a “guardian” to your sponsored horse so you may receive updates on the horse’s well-being throughout his or her life.
This program is critical to our ability to vet, feed, board and care for these precious horses. What better gift to give yourself or your friends and family – the gift of life, and the gift of love. Your donation or sponsorship represents the gift of a second chance at life and happiness for 163 horses who otherwise would have been broken and killed. Thanks to the help of people like you who are reading this, it can and will happen for these beautiful horses.
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Yes I would like to Sponsor a horse
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We want to thank everyone that is helping and would like to help with this Miracle Save that took place on May23, 2008..To insure the safety of these beautiful horses our security is a little higher than usual.
Horse slaughter is a very controversial subject and we want to take any and all measures needed to
keep this Miracle Herd safe! ADOPTING...If you are interesting is adoption please call 561-951-2108. You can make an appointment with Brad to see the horses, they will love seeing you as much as you love seeing them. VOLUNTEERING, SPONOSRING, DONATING.. If you are interested in volunteering, sponsoring, donating or information please call Jennifer 561-254-0415 or Karen at 561-847-5327.
We will just need to issue you are pass for the facilties. We hope this is not an inconvenience but it took enormous measures to bring these horses to safety and now we must make sure we do all we can to protect them....Their lives are in our hands, they trust us to take care of them and keep them safe from harm, it is an honor that we take very seriously |
Kill Auction.. the beginning of the End PLEASE NOTE all horses in this video are safe NOW!
There are no words needed.. The pictures speak for themselves
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The horses and humans of Pure Thoughts Inc and rescue horses nationwide would like to extend a personal thank you to Phelps Media for embracing this cause and bringing the issues of Horse Slaughter and Horse Welfare to the forefront of the Equestrian World. You may visit the "Our Sponors" link for information on subscription to Phelps Sports. |
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We rescue many horses from abuse and neglect. It is a long process to bring a horse back but it is one of the most rewarding things we do..... Your donations allow us to keep helping these needy horses.
THANK YOU FOR HELPING US HELP THE HORSES
 
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" SHE AINT HEAVY...SHE'S MY SISTER"
You know the old saying that you choose your friends but you are born into your family. I have come to realize that is not always true, my family has grown by leaps and bounds. Family is not your bloodlines, family is what its in your heart. Families are formed out of friendships, beliefs, situations, etc. That is the same with the horses. They are such a FAMILY ORIENTED species. If they had their way they would stay together forever. When they are taken away from the family they know they try and make a family with their new herdmates. You can watch the pecking order just with any other family.
Well this weekend we had two family members who are very lucky girls, Covergirl and Maddie who are part of a big family here at the rescue went to their new family together.. Not only are they staying together but they both have a wonderful new family....
 
 
SPEAKING OF ADOPTIONS....
We will be updating the adoption page this week so keep your eyes on it. We have some amazing horses now ready to go to their forever home. Here are a few of them
Thunder and Rainy ...
These pony brothers have completed their rehab and are ready for their next chapter. They are wonderful little pony babies. One is about 19 months old and the other is about 7 months old. Both boys lead beautifully, love their baths and are very respectful.. They are beautiful young ponies... They were in the first group rescued from Naples, Florida
 
Pumpkin....
Pumpkin is just an outstanding mare. She is sweet as sweet can be and probably one of the safest horses we have ever met. She has had a four year old on her without any problems and she is so good at keeping her rider safe.. And she loves people... She seems to have been trained in Western Pleasure and is quite the stunning mare..
 
Peter....
Peter is approximately 18 years old and very laid back. He is great to ride and you can do anything with him. He would make someone a lovely trail horse or anything you are looking for... he is not fussy.
 
Remember Me.....
Remember reading many months ago about a very skinny Saddlebred type gelding who needed to add weight.... WELL HE DID IT and look at him now.. The Colonel is wonderful.. Great to ride, loves the arena, loves the trails and there is just nothing you cannot do with The Colonel.
 
A VERY SPECIAL VISIT
Last week the rescue was visited by a very special organization. The Brown University Equestrian team came down to Wellington and out to the rescue. I will be writing an article this week about this special group of girls and the people involved with this organization. They were amazing, what a remarkable group of very caring individuals with an obvious concern for horse welfare.
Gatorade needs a new spokesman
Well Geico has the gecko I think Gatorade needs to have Hayseuss... Victoria McCullough's adorable little donkey that she adopted from the Home for the Holidays rescue mission in November of 2007
"GOT GATORADE"
PREVENTION OF EQUINE CRUELTY ACT
H.R. 503
The 111th Congress just began last week, and the Conyers-Burton Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act, H.R. 503, has already been introduced. With thousands of horses a month being shipped over the border to Mexico and Canada where they are shot and stabbed to death for their meat, we can't waste any time. Like past legislation (the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act), the Conyers-Burton Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act (H.R. 503) will prohibit the sale and transport of horses for slaughter for human consumption, including horses being shipped over the border for slaughter.
We're off to an amazing start with this bill -- there were 61 co-sponsors already signed on to the bill the moment it was introduced! We need your help to ensure that your U.S. Representative is added to this list of co-sponsors.
Here is a list of the co-sponsors as of 1/14/09. If you do not see your representative listed please call and encourage them to do so….if you see him or her listed, maybe send an email and say THANKS!!!
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/D?d111:1:./temp/~bd5HXz:@@@P|/bss/d111query.html
You may use this toll-free number to reach your Representative: 1-800-828-0498.
(The operator can find your Representative by name or zip code if you do not have this information).
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Pure Thoughts, Inc. - Florida Foal Rescue, have rescued over 575 foals and yearlings from a tortuous death at the slaughterhouse todate. With the help and contributions of the people and the community we hope to save the lives of over 1000 foals and yearlings this year. Another chance for horses
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