Yavapai Humane Society presents their online auction fundraiser for the 2016 Happy TAILs Calendar
Yavapai Humane Society is auctioning off the 2016 Happy TAILs Calendar
Here are Three ways to honor your beloved equine and support the life-saving programs of the Yavapai Humane Society. 100% of all profits raised go directly to care for the animals.
1) Win the COVER – bidding starts at $750
2) Sponsor a Month – bidding starts at $250
3) Commemorate your Equine Friend - Buy a date for $25 **
**(Please send us your special message as a Reply to the Confirmation Email you will receive once you make a payment)
Yavapai Humane Society Equine Project
Since March 1972, nearly 43 years ago, the mission of the Yavapai Humane Society (YHS) has been to promote and protect the health, safety and welfare of pets in our community - and “pets” was narrowly defined as dogs and cats. So effective was YHS in achieving this mission that we earned a national reputation for our role in helping transform central and western Yavapai County into the safest region in the United States for dogs and cats.
Over the years many have asked, and some have demanded, that YHS expand its life saving efforts to include other species. Actually, the YHS Board of Directors and management team have longed for the day when we could afford to embrace other species in our humane mission.
That long awaited day finally dawned as YHS took its first big step towards expanding its mission to include abused and neglected equines with the purchase of a 7.3-acre Chino Valley property equipped with barns and stalls. This purchase is designed to allow YHS to bring equines under the umbrella of its life-saving animal welfare programs. The property was previously occupied by the Hacienda de los Milagros sanctuary, which closed its doors in 2013. HDLM was an equine sanctuary based in Chino Valley since 1993; and had been home to as many as 145 burros and horses.
Our community has struggled to find a safe place for homeless, abandoned, and neglected equines. It has always been YHS’ goal to fill this gap and provide a haven for these animals in need.
The Equine Project is an enormous undertaking prompted by the conviction that it is the right thing to do.
Program Objectives Include:
- Operating a rescue, rehabilitation and adoption agency for equines
- Providing therapeutic, educational and recreational activities with horses for persons with disabilities, thereby enhancing their independence and quality of life.
- Providing opportunities for servicemen and women who have suffered injury in the line of duty to rehabilitate themselves both physically and emotionally
- Supporting economic development in Chino Valley through jobs creation and property enhancement. YHS encourages using local resources in a way that enhance economic opportunities while improving social conditions in a sustainable way
Each year the Arizona State Department of Agriculture contacts the Yavapai Humane Society asking for assistance with placing misplaced, lost, abandoned and neglected equines with quality of life remaining. To date, YHS has had to turn these animals away due to a lack of organizational infrastructure capable of taking on such a responsibility. It is YHS’ understanding that these horses were consequently sent to slaughter as the only available remedy.
This facility will ensure no equine is killed while it has remaining quality of life. Further the intrinsic value of each animal will be amplified through a variety of therapeutic equine programs proven to mitigate symptoms associated with a wide array of diseases and disabilities affecting the mind, body and soul of our community’s youth and adults. Horsemanship is taught to people with the goal of increasing functional life skills thereby enhancing self-esteem and motor skills.
Community economic development encourages using local resources in a way that enhances economic opportunities while improving social conditions in a sustainable way. In the not too distant future we envision becoming an active partner in Chino Valley's economic growth through creating jobs, building infrastructure and hiring local contractors as we rejuvenate and put into operation an abandoned, deteriorating property.
To move this project forward, the YHS Board of Directors has identified the following financial needs:
- $30,000 to bring electric, well and septic up to code
- $85,000 to install doublewide mobile home to be used for equine caretaker residence and staff offices and meeting place.