Ipswich Equine Rescue is a 501C3 FEDERAL( 04-3282940) non profit equine rescue that is totally dependent on public donations.IPSWICH EQUINE RESCUE HAS BEEN RESCUING OTTBS SINCE THE MID 80'S.. After moving from Massachusetts to Texas We have managed to assist in the closing of the 2 illegally run Texas Equine Slaughterhouses.WE ARE PROUD MEMBERS of " EQUINE VOICE COALITION/SAVEDAHORSES." CONTACT INFO on how to make a donation. Call Kathleen Hofferty at 281- 239-9643. Rescue/home 936-372-0028.or email us at ipswichequinerescu@sbcglobal.net WE RECENTLY HAVE MOVED TO AN 18 ACRE FARM IN HARRIS COUNTY AFTER HURRICANE IKE DESTROYED OUR MAGNOLIA,TX FARM,.EQUINE PROTECTION HOUSE BILL   HR 503 Title: to amend tile 18,United states Code,to prohibit certain conduct relating to the use of horses for human consumption.

WILD HORSES HOUSE BILL HR1018

Title:to amend the wild free roaming horses and burros act to improve the management and long term health of wild free roaming horses and burros, and for other purposes.

TRANSPORT  HOUSE BILL HR 305

Title: to amend title 49 United states Code to prohibit the transportation of horses in interstate transportation in a motor vehicle containing 2 or more levels stacked on top of one another.(Double Decker Cattle Trucks)

• Many thanks to all Commonwealth of Massachusetts Senators and Reps that have co signed and are proud sponsors of these bills.Without our great commonwealth the horses would not be as safe from harm. the horses thank you.EQUINE RESCUE ALERT MAY 10th,2009.We are working on saving 11 starved PREGNANT tobiano paint mare and filly, medicine hat paint mare, appaloosa mare , tb mare , 3 pregnant arab mares.A big stocky 15.3 hand black qh stallion, 3 year old bloodstock paint, bay qh mare,DONATIONS CAN BE SENT to Kathleen Hofferty/Ipswich Equine Rescue,18644 Mathis rd, Waller, tx 77484 Wehave paypal. Donations can be sent to Marie AuBachon of Waller and Anderson County where the starving pregnant equines are being held. Maries phone is 903-386-5746.The horses need your help asap.

 

We also need volunteers to help with the rescue horses. If you would like to donate hay, shavings, grain or anything horse related we will gladly accept them. FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTIONS ARE MUCH NEEDED. The horses Thank You.  WE FINALLY ACCOMPLISHED OUR GOAL."""Please be aware of Volunteer/Foster Care Offers"""PLEASE ALWAYS CHECK THE CREDENTIALS and FARM Environment of any individual that offers your rescue corp.any type of housing/foster care assistance. Alot of people portray something that they are not. The worst thing any honest rescue can do is to innocently be taken advantage of by unknowingly getting involved with unscrupulous, incompetent beginner horse people that in the long term interem can hurt the very rescued equines you have saved. ALWAYS MAKE SURE(ALL FOSTER CARE PAPERWORK IS SIGNED) the Foster/Volunteer Farms have shelter,grass pasture and are kind, caring, loving knowledgable horseman.Their are alot of deceiptful people that will literally steal your equines and still remain using your EIN 501(c)3 federal Id non profit equine rescue info.ALWAYS CHECK POTENTIAL ADOPTIVE HOMES,Individuals will misrepresent themselves, give false references and downright confabulate in order to get a nice well trained rescued equine for free or next to nothing. Make sure your Foster Care/ Adoption papers are your individual rescue adoption papers as their are many fraudulent dishonest people whom will falsify documentation in order to behoove themselves and potentially get a free equine that your rescue saved.BEWARE.'ALWAYS PUT OUR PRECIOUS RESCUED EQUINES AND DOGS FIRST, BE AWARE OF CON ARTISTS AND SCAMMERS, BELIEVE ME THEY ARE OUT THERE.'TURN YOUR LOVE FOR AVON INTO MONEY FOR IPSWICH EQUINE RESCUEwww.youravon.com/cherylhoffman When You order from Avon 15% is donated to Ipswich Equine Rescue. AVON. REGISTER AT THE WEBSITE ABOVE AND PUT IN THE 3 DIGIT CODE AFTER YOUR NAME. THE 3 DIGIT CODE IS , IER. WE USE AVON PRODUCTS AND SOME WORK GREAT FOR OUR EQUINE FRIENDS. SO ORDER 'AVON' TODAY.All of our AMERICAN EQUINES Thank You.JUST SAY NO TO EQUINE SLAUHTER.WE ARE PROUD MEMBERS OF THE EQUINE VOICE COALITION/SAVEDAHORSES.Tell me and I will forget,Show me, and I may not remember,Involve me and I will understand.Our first teacher is our own heart.Cheyene Indians.They are not dead whom live in the hearts,they leave behind.Tuscarora,6th nation of the Iriqouis, my blood comes from the 1500 Tuscarora Indians.The shaman, the equinerescuer, the pony girl.

 

KEEVA WAS BORN ON MAY 23 2007. WE RESCUED GRACE FROM THE KILLPEN AT THE GREAT WESTERN MAGNOLIA AUCTION. KEEVA IS A BUNDLE OF JOY AND GRACIE IS A WONDERFUL MOM.

 

I AM A HORSE

I AM A HORSE.

I DO NOT DESERVE TO DIE A HORRIFIC HORRIBLE

DEATH IN A FOREIGN SLAUGHTERHOUSE TO BE FED TO EUROPEANS

AND ASIANS FOR DINNER.

I AM A HORSE.

I HAVE PAID MY DUES. I LET YOU RIDE ME AND WIN MANY BATTLES

UPON MY BACK.

I AM A HORSE.

I TRUSTED YOU,

I GAVE YOU MY UNCONDITIONAL LOVE.

I AM A HORSE.

I NEVER ASK FOR MUCH,

JUST A WARM BED SOME HAY,GRAIN AND A PLACE TO RUN FREE.

I AM A HORSE.

I DESERVE TO DIE WITH DIGNITY.

I HAVE SERVED YOU WELL,

PLEASE RESPECT ME AND TREAT ME KINDLY.

I AM A HORSE.

ALL I WANT IS A SCRATCH ON MY NECK,

A HUG AND A PLEASURABLE RIDE.

I AM A HORSE.

I WANT TO LIVE WELL AND PASS

ON WHEN MY TIME IS CALLED UPON ME.

I AM A HORSE.

ALLOW ME MY DIGNITY,PLEASE DO NOT BUTCHER ME.

I AM YOUR FRIEND,

COMPANION.

I AM A HORSE.

KATHLEEN HOFFERTY, IPSWICH EQUINE RESCUE.

THE HORSE RESCUERS POEM

Rescue me not only with your hands but with your heart as well.I will respect you.Rescue me not out of pity but out of love. I Will Love you back.Rescue me not with your self rightousness but with compassion.I will learn what you teach.Rescue me not because of my past,but because of my future.I will relax and enjoy.Rescue me not simply to save me but to give me a new life.I will appreciate your gift.Respect me not only with a firm hand but with tolerance and patience. I Will please you.Respect me not only of because whom I am but for what i will become.I will grow and mature.Respect me not to revere yourself to others but because you truly want me. I will never let you down.Respect me not with a hidden agenda but with a desire to teach me to trust again.I will be loyal and true.Respect me not to be chained,tied up or to fight but to be your companion.I will stand by your side.Respect me not to replace one that you have lost but to soothe your spirit.I will cherish you.Rescue me not to be your pet but to be your friend,companion.I will always give you my undying love.Anonymous horse rescuer.

 

Welcome to Ipswich Equine Rescue

Here At I.E.R. we are dedicated to saving horses from neglect abuse and SLAUGHTER. Kathleen Hofferty and Stephen J, Hofferty founded I.E.R. in Ipswich Mass. in 1994 and has saved thousands of horses from an ugly demise in a slaughterhouse where they would have been shipped over seas for human consumption. Horses have been a companion to man since early in mans evolution, and here at I.E.R. we don't believe in eating our companions. Here we take in the unwanted horses that would otherwise go to the slaughterhouse and give them a second chance at life.Their are so many backyard bred horses that go to the foreign slaughterhouses/butchershops. We must put and end to the exporatation of our American horses being sent overseas to Canada and barbaric Mexico where they are stabbed in thier neck vertabrae with steak knives. Is this HUMANE? I do not think so.WE MUST PASS HR 503 and HR305 transporatation bill now in order to save our loved equine companions.From New England to Texas we need to continue to strive and educate individuals on the reality and the atrocities of equine slaughter and the not needed backyard breeding of our american pets.

Ipswich Equine Rescue

I.E.R. provides refuge and sanctuary to former Thoroughbred race horses and Premarin Foals. We strive to help any equine in need. I.E.R. and U.P.F. were the first founders and leaders starting the P.M.U. mission.Through creating public awareness with media coverage we started to educate women on the atrocities and horrific demise of the P.M.U. Foals. Premarin  as the world now knows is a hormone replacement therapy drug derived from Pregnant Mares Urine. And it has been proven to cause Breast and Uterine Cancer in females mainly because the female body cannot break down the horse hormone Equilin.

Many new Premarin groups have since sprung up focusing on the important issue of saving the Canadian P.M.U. Foals and mares. Luckily in January 2004 Wyeth- Ayerst started cutting back on the production of PREMARIN due to numerous lawsuits. Many Premarin farms have been shut down and will hopefully remain closed forever. As a Nurse, my other concern is for the millions of women that are now suffering from CANCER due to taking PREMARIN. The animal based conjugated drug PREMARIN does indeed cause every womans worse fear, substantiated, proven and documented by leading reknowned medical doctors all over the world.

THIS PICTURE WAS TAKEN BY ME OF 'CRUZ' ONE WEEK BEFORE HE WAS HUMANELY EUTHANIZED. CREEPY? A PREMONITION OF WHAT WAS TO COME UNFORTUNATELY. CRUZ IS SADLY MISSED AND NEVER FORGOTTEN.CRUZ WILL ALWAYS REMAIN IN MY HEART. HE IS UNFORGETTABLE.I WAS BLESSED FOR THE JOY AND HAPPINESS WE SHARED TOGETHER AS BEST FRIENDS.

GO, BRADY, GO. BRADY IS A PMU RESCUE. BRADY IS A HOLSTEINER/TB CROSS. WHAT A FLOATING TROT.

KATHLEEN AND THE IPSWICH EQUINE RESCUE HORSES AND NEW PMU FILLIES

CASPER OUR 25 YEAR OLD REGISTERED THOROUGHBRED GELDING AND 2 PMU FOALS BORU & IRISH SPIRIT

 

SPRING, CASPER AND SKYLAR ENJOYING LIFE AND MUNCHING ON PART OF THE 5 ACRES OF PASTURE.SPRING CAME TO US AS 4 YEAR OLD FILLY,HOLSTEINER/TB. WE WORKED WITH'SPRING' AND TAUGHT HER HOW TO LOVE AND TRUST HUMANS.WE STARTED 'SPRING' UNDER SADDLE.''SPRING'' HAS BEEN ADOPTED AND HAS FOUND A FOREVER HOME WITH LAURA JOHNSON.'SPRING' IS A TALENTED OPEN JUMPER AND IS LOVED AND CARED FOR LOCALLY, WINNING MANY RIBBONS AT LOCAL SHOWS.SKYELAR AKA SKYE NEEDS A SPONSOR DUE TO ON AGAIN OFF AGAIN LAMENESS ISSUES. SKYE WAS A GRAND PRIX JUMPER THAT CAME FROM NEW YORK. SKYE WILL REMAIN HERE WITH US AT'IPSWICH EQUINE RESCUE' DUE TO OLD INFIRMITIES AND PAST ABUSE SUSTAINED WHEN A SHOW JUMPER.PLEASE CONSIDER SPONSORING''SKYE''

HENRIETTA, ONE VERY CONFUSED CHICKEN PREMARIN MARE TETHERED FROM THE FRONT,STANDING DURING HER 2ND AND 3RD TRIMESTERS OF PREGNANCY,UNABLE TO LIE DOWN.DENIED WATER,MOBILITY,FREEDOM.IMAGINE?WYETH CALLS THIS HUMANE.IPSWICHEQUINERESCUE W/HSUS STARTED THE PREMARIN MARE AND FOAL MISSION IN 1994.TODAY IN 2008 ONLY A HANDFUL OF PREMARIN FARMS EXSIST.PLEASE HELP CLOSE THE CANADIAN SLAUGHTERHOUSES NOW.THE PMU HORSES THANK YOU. WE ARE A MEMBER OF www.guidestar.net  AS IPSWICH EQUINE RESCUE CORP. we are members of www.petfinders.com , www.petco.com  .We are also members of www.countrysupply.com , our country care code is ipswichequinerescu. PLEASE DONATE TO 'IPSWICH EQUINE RESCUE CORP 04-3282940. WE ARE A 501C3 NON PROFIT EQUINE RESCUE.   TYPE IN www.goodsearch.com and vote for Ipswich Equine Rescue Corp.Every little vote is a big vote to our needy rescued friends.We are working on becoming a member of missionfish.com ALL OF THE RESCUED EQUINES FROM IPSWICH EQUINE RESCUE CORP.''THANK YOU.''

PLEASE CONSIDER MAKING A DONATION OR FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTION TODAY.JUST HIT THE PAYPAL BUTTON BELOW.