Equine Recline Blog

CONGRATULATIONS to PAMELA MARR on winning the Monsoon Raffle for the $100 gift card for Fry’s!

We’d like to send out a HUGE thank you to all of you who participated. We greatly appreciate your support!

Today is the last day to get your tickets for the Monsoon Raffle!!! You don’t want to miss this! Make sure you get your tickets if you haven’t already! The raffle is for a $100 gift card to Fry’s! Thank you Fry’s of Sahuarita for donating it! This gift card can be used for food, furniture, electronics, and even GAS!

Tickets are $5 each. Go to our website at www.equinerecline.org and click on the Make a Donation button. Type in the dollar amount for how many tickets you want (for example $15 if you want 3 tickets).

We’re very excited to announce our MONSOON RAFFLE to benefit Equine Recline! Fry’s of Sahuarita has generously donated a $100 gift card for us to raffle off! This gift card can be used for groceries OR gas at any Fry’s gas station!

Tickets are $5. You can come see us in person at the Green Valley Mall on Thursday June 26, 2008 from 9 am to 12 pm to buy your raffle tickets or go online to the website and click on the Donate button on the front page. Again tickets are $5 each, so for every $5 donated you will receive one ticket into the raffle.

Raffle ends Sunday June 29th, 2008 at 9am. So make sure to get your tickets before then to get your chance to win this $100 gift card from Fry’s!

Maverick is obviously feeling quite good. Yesterday he threw a complete temper tantrum when we closed the stall door before he could escape! He proceeded to back around his stall kicking, with both back feet, at the walls!

Care for the Horses is having a raffle to raise funds. The prize is one ton of hay (20 bales)! Tickets are $5. Contact Care for the Horses at 520-559-1697 to buy your tickets NOW. Drawing is Saturday June 21st at 2 pm.

We’re noticing some improvements in Maverick, though some of it is hard to pin point other than just a general feeling that he’s improving. Though what we are seeing is that he’s standing up more often, and for longer periods. He is also doing what we’ve always called camel stretches. This is where they place their front legs out in front of themselves then rock backwards and down. In addition, he’s been doing full body shakes after we hose him off. These are all encouraging signs and hopefully we’ll continue to see more.

We’d like to send out a huge thank you to the following people for their generousity.

Andrea M

Valerie W

Peg B

Time sure does fly by lately whether we’re having fun or not!

We changed Maverick’s dosage protocol with his Chinese herb mixes. We had been giving him a lower dosage 3 x’s a day, but at the suggestion of For Love of the Horse we have changed it to a higher dosage 2x’s a day.

We have moved Maverick to one of the inside stalls so that he wouldn’t lay so far away from food and water, and also so he’d be in shade. We also got him a bale of straw as he’s been asking for some. He’s quite the happy camper now! I don’t know if it is the change in the dosage of the herbs, moving to a different place in the barn, or a combination of both but he is getting up more often and staying up more, as well as getting up to eat more often.

We had some visitors, Gwen, Ellie, and Sophie. Alf is shown here with Ellie and Sophie. If you remember they did a fundraiser for us a short time ago doing a lemonade stand and made over $30!

Welcome to June! 

Maverick got his shoes reset. He did absolutely wonderful! Thanks to our farrier Ben Bahti for his wonderful work on Maverick!

We’d been told that eventually the right hoof would probably start dying off due to lack of proper circulation. We have been nervous about this and were afraid that he would not have healthy hoof underneath the dead sole of the hoof that needed trimmed off. Thank God he does though!

For the first time Maverick was able to stand unsupported other than the Dynasplint while having his right hoof trimmed. It has been a very long time since he has been able to support himself that well on his left leg. Remember his left leg is the one that had the original contracture in it. We had to put the prosthetic on his right leg in order to trim his left one, and he did excellent. Again he did not need us to support him.

Maverick has been sore from the trim and was a bit subdued for several days. He is back being his spunky, talkative self now.