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SLOWWWWWW THE EF DOWN AROUND THE LAKES!!!!!!!

I understand accidents happen, however this gorgeous girl was on Devils Lake Highway in a 35mph zone! She is huge!!!! Not to mention she was with another turtle her same size. There’s no way anyone paying attention and driving 35 couldn’t have seen her!

Under 20% (some estimate as low as 7%) of laid eggs survive.

Of that dismal number only 1% of eggs that hatch survive to maturity.

They are battling pollution from our pesticides and herbicides. The least we can do is not run them over in the road.

If you find a turtle crossing the road, move them to a safe place in the direction their nose is pointing. They have an internal drive that takes them where they’re going to lay eggs and they’ll continue on that path until they make it there.

As always be better humans and take care of the innocent animals.

Ashley is on her way with this girl to an animal hospital in Novi. She passed just before pulling out of the driveway with her but they will attempt to harvest eggs, incubate them and then release them back to Devils Lake.

Praying for your babies sweet girl. 💔🙏😭

Perhaps with the borders closed people take the opportunity to educate themselves on the reality of this situation! Stop falling for these mass bail outs, only has so many hours left horses. Those horses are likely heading to another auction or dealer because the money they make off them bus them the healthy horses they do ship that never ever get a chance to be saved. Stop supporting places like Colby’s Crew that mass bail the “holding pen!” All they’re doing in lining the pockets of that dealer so he can load up his trailer with healthy and plump horses. It’s a disgusting practice.

🚫 THE REVENUE LOOP: THE TRUTH ABOUT THE HORSE SLAUGHTER PIPELINE 🚫
The international horse slaughter industry is not a disposal system for unwanted animals. It is a highly centralized, corporate agribusiness [CRS]. At its core are a handful of major industrial shippers who command the vast majority of the export market share, turning a massive profit off the backs of American horses.
Before donating to a social media "bail" page, look at the cold, hard numbers from official USDA transit manifests, federal data, and agricultural research:

🚢 Monopolizing the Pipeline:
The trade is tightly controlled by a few key players. Based on border checkpoint manifests and investigative reports compiled by groups like Animals' Angels, Bowie Livestock (operating under their legal shipping entity, O'Dwyer Investments) commands approximately 33% to 35% of the active U.S.-to-Mexico horse slaughter export market share. As the single largest exporter in the nation, this centralized operation moves millions of dollars worth of horses across the border annually.

💵 Mass Bailing Rescues Do NOT Reduce Slaughter Numbers
Well-meaning people flood social media to "bail out" horses from broker lots, thinking they are shrinking the slaughter pipeline. They aren't. Because a single entity like Bowie moves such a massive percentage of the market, they operate under rigid, pre-arranged supply contracts with foreign processing facilities. They must fulfill a weekly quota.

When a "mass bail" group raises thousands of dollars to buy a horse at inflated retail prices, that money goes straight into the shipper's pocket. You aren't reducing their quota; you are just providing interest-free cash flow. With the profit made on that one "bailed" horse, the shipper goes right back to the auction tomorrow and buys three or four more horses for cheaper. The total number of animals loaded onto trucks bound for Mexico remains completely unchanged.

Rescuing one or two horses out of personal compassion directly changes the fate of those specific animals. However, this is entirely different from mass bail operations that raise millions of dollars under the false pretense of shrinking the pipeline. While a private buyer acts on empathy, mass-scale fundraising functions as a highly lucrative business for both the shippers and the rescues themselves. By pocketing heavy administrative fees and donations, these organizations turn a massive profit off a cycle that provides shippers with the exact capital needed to buy even more horses—fueling the very system the public thinks they are stopping.

🐴 The Animals: Healthy, Fat, Domestic Stocks
The narrative that these trucks hold skinny, unmanageable, or free-roaming reservation horses is false. Foreign meat processing plants operate on rigid per-pound meat yield margins for export markets.

* 92.3% Healthy: Official USDA border tracking records prove that 92.3% of horses shipped across the border are in "good" or "excellent" condition.

* The Target Profile: Shippers actively seek fat, young, well-muscled domestic stock horses (like Quarter Horses and Paints) or out-of-service racehorses (Thoroughbreds and Standardbreds). Completely wild or unhandled horses are a major liability; they fight and trample each other in tight semi-trailers, causing meat damage that commercial buyers often reject. However too many of our national treasure BLM mustangs and reservation horses ship.

📊 The 2025 Blueprint
* 21,430 Horses: The total number of American horses trucked into Mexico for slaughter in 2025. Even with the argument of “where will those ‘surplus horses’ go?” The highest number of U.S. horses slaughtered in one year was 348,400 horses in 1989. When slaughter houses in the U.S. closed, the argument was made of “where would all the excess horses go?” The market adjusted and there wasn’t a glutton on “horses roaming the streets” with nowhere to go.

* 100% Absorvable: Peer-reviewed agricultural data via the National Institutes of Health (NIH) reveals this pipeline accounts for less than 1% of the U.S. horse population. If the live export loophole is shut down, private owners, riders, and legitimate sanctuaries have more than enough physical capacity to easily absorb these 21,000+ healthy animals.

🏔️ The Management Reality Check
Starving the shippers of funding forces accountability back home. Closing the border to live export forces a hard stop on reckless over-breeding, continuously discarded racing surpluses, and unmanaged reservation herds. It strips managers of a cheap, international dumping ground and forces the implementation of proper herd management tools.

Stop funding the kill buyers. Stop financing the trucks.
If you want to help, do not line the pockets of mass bail broker lots. Redirect your funding to support transparent, ethical local rescues that refuse to negotiate with commercial kill pens. Contact your federal lawmakers and demand they pass the SAFE Act to ban live slaughter exports permanently.

Send some well wishes up for the baby. She may be 5 but she’ll always be our baby. She has struggled every spring with allergies and a cough. This is by far the worst year and waiting to see what’s best to treat her with based on her culture is a bit torturous.

As soon as we have her feeling better we will be doing some testing to figure out best preventative measures from here on out.

Can we just take a moment to appreciate the barring on her forehead. Such a pretty girl that got the best from both her mom and dad.

Dr. Christine also mentioned a bit of a diet while she is not working and her face tells you exactly how she feels about that. 😂

I really wish people were more critical of the actions of these rescues. I know of several within an hour of us that need their rescue animals rescued from them. Yet people continue to love their stuff, say how amazing they are and just blindly send money.

How do you continue to just dump money with never seeing how these animals are being cared for. There’s never anything other than what they want to present on their fb pages. So many people supporting the suffering of animals out there and it just makes me so sick!

If you want to send money to someone to do it for those that have proven results. They share the updates that prove these horses lives are improved by their rescue OFTEN! With details and photo evidence! Ones that share the hard side of things and are open about how they meet those struggles head on, even if everyone won’t agree with their approach. They’re upfront about what they do, why they do it, how they do it and the journey their animals are on.

Stop failing these animals by blindly following the feel good posts these kinds of people post and just believing they’re making a positive difference. It’s often quite the opposite!

As always we recommend..

Saving Grace Miniature Horse Rescue
1 Horse At A Time Draft Horse Rescue
And
Copper Horse Crusade

We have personal dealings with all 3 and I know they’re making huge positive differences in every animal they care for!

We have to do better for these animals!

Facebook official. Another wildcat in the house!

FABULOUS WEATHER ALERT…

Theo is not dead in the pasture. Stiff legged, dead man sleeping is his favorite position on these gorgeous days. 😂😂😂

Some days they’re all down at once and it looks like we have a gas leak. This is not only normal behavior it’s a sign of a healthy and happy herd. In order for horses to sleep like this they must feel safe and I’d say that’s a pretty good sign if our blind senior pony with a locking stifle can sleep this sound! ❤️

Happy fabulous weather forecast!!!! 🙌🏻🎊

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Supporting your local equine businesses is important to keeping the horse industry alive.

So many times — especially recently — you’ll see tack shops, farriers, vets, fitters, equine cleaning businesses, and more shutting their doors. Most of the time it’s due to retirement, lack of money, and lack of support.

These business owners are not corporations. They are real humans behind the wall or screen. They’re just like you, walking amongst you, except they take on a different responsibility.

How do we support and keep trusted local equine businesses?

Shop there.
Recommend folks.
Write kind reviews.
Go to their events.

Many of us put a TON of time, care, and effort into developing a better community. Making B2B connections is more important than having competitors. We partner, sponsor, and support a LOT of barns, tack shops, and other equine services, and they do the same for us.

If you want to keep your local equine businesses, go support them in any way you can!

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Brightside LLC Used Tack and Consignments
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Hampton Meadows
Bluebonnet Equestrian Center
Diamonds Edge Ranch, L.L.C
Day Acres Farm
DNA Tack Shack
Bierman Equestrian Center
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IV Designs
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