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ABC News Interviews VC
ABC News Los Angles and Leticia Juarez interviewed Monika Kerber and Louise Gardner at Villa Chardonnay. Tough times have hit the rescue, with over $200,000 in annual expenses, Kerber and Gardner foot the bill for the past 3 years and counting. Help is needed from the community to continue..... See Video
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Please mail any donation checks to 42200 Calle Barbona, Temecula, CA 92592. Please make any checks out to Villa Chardonnay, Inc. Phone Number 951-526-6600. All donations are tax deductable.
Ziggy & Annie UPDATE!
Oct. 24th - Ziggy is doing great! So far he is cancer free! Thank you Dr. Mangan for all your help. Annie, from Orange County, is one of our newest residents and has been diagnosed with cancer. She came to us as her own 31 year old owner died suddenly of cancer as well. She was abandoned by her family in their time of grieving. She has multiple tumors over her body and are too many to perform an operation. She is eating well and in good spirits, we are doing everything we can to keep her comfortable and happy.
PMU Mares - The Abuse Continues…
PMU stands for Pregnant Mare Urine. It is a key ingredient in a medication called Premarin. When we first heard about this process and the abuse that PMU mares have to endure, we were completely shocked that this can occur in this day and age. Well not only does it occur but it is still growing. The conditions that these mares have to endure are heart breaking. More...
Experts on Equine Assisted Therapy
Read this report by Washington University Research team to learn more about the effects of equine therapy. PDF >
Calico Nevada Roundups kill 4 beautiful wild horses so far...
It is wrong to move America's Wild Horses off their rightful western ranges and the only home they have ever known, just to put them in BLM warehouses in the Midwest. Please donate and help us bring these horses to California. More >
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Urgent Donations Needed for Bales of Alfalfa! Join the Bale-Out!
The Horses of VC need 400 Bales of Alfalfa to make it thru Jan. of 2012!
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Donate a bale for $18 today! We have 187 and only 1 more weeks in the year! PLEASE HELP NOW! A special thank you to Carol for a 10 bale donation! Thank you Laurie, Raymond, Laura H., Ingrid, Christine, Nicola, Tammy, Mathew, Carole, Randy, Lisa C., Mary, Patricia, Ingrid, Marlene, Elisabeth, Karla, The Joyner Family, Denise, Laura, Shawn, Suzie, Judith, Jackie, The Camirand Family and Carol for this weeks doantions! Thank you to Janine, Betty, Debra, Nancy M., Nancy S. for Monika's birthday presents! Thanks to Nicole, Andrew, Laura, Jerilyn, Margy, Becky, Denise, Bridget and Henry for your help as of Nov. 9th! A GREAT BIG thank you to Alyson for bringing us 10 bales!
Make a generous donation today! Alfalfa prices have doubled in the past year and show no signs of letting up. VC goes through 7-8 bales a day coming to a little over $4000 per month. This does NOT include grain, senior feed (for the old horses missing teeth), suppliments or other food needs.
It's simple - the more alfalfa we have, the more horses we can save!
- Donate directly by calling Dan's Feed at 951-676-4040 approximately $18 per bale
- Click the button below and donate a bale to VC
- All donations help! 1 bale is great...10 bales are better!
- Please give generously so Hope's Story below doesn't happen to another horse!
Hope - Our latest effort, trying to save Hope, an emaciated 3 Year old fillie
Hope when she first arrived. After she went down in her stall, then while the vet and friends were here with us trying to save her for hours...
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She was tied to a fence post in Perris, alone, starving to death, and never received proper nutrition. She was small and undergrown, never would come to her full potential. We named her Hope, with all the hope in the world that she would survive and become a resident at Villa Chardonnay.
She arrived on a Tuesday morning May 17th after we received a phone call from a resident of Perris, near where she was tied to a fence. She did well for the first 24 hours and started to eat slowly. You have to start them slowly to eat as their systems are not used to the food.
After 24 hours she was down and struggling, we could not get her up. She was eating and drinking. Both us and the vet were hoping she was just exhausted and going to pull out of it. By afternoon we were giving her IV fluids, medications, stimulants and more trying to revive her. We had a crew of 7 trying to lift her in her stall and get her to stand up, for hours we tried. We succeeded once, and she stood for a few minutes but she could not sustain it.
We had to euthanize her at 1:00 am to relieve her suffering.
To take her to the hospital would cost a minimum of $2500, in fact you can't even check a horse into San Luis Rey Equine Hosptial without paying $2500 in advance. Monika, who was with Hope nearly every moment she was with us, was naturally devistated, as we all were. Please say a prayer for little Hope who suffered more than any animal or human should ever suffer, in her short 3 years on this earth.
DON'T LET THIS HAPPEN TO MORE HORSES - THEY DON'T DESERVE IT AND WE CAN HELP!
They were all homeless and headed for the slaughterhouse until they found a forever home at the sanctuary of Villa Chardonnay. Help us save more from the horrors of starvation or the slaughterhouse
Click this button to donate to our MEDICAL FUND using American Express, Visa and MC
Ziggy Continues to Improve - What a great patient!
DR. MANGAN says Ziggy is continuing to improve. We don't know if he is out of the woods yet, and we are praying for the best
Dr. Mangan continues to visit Ziggy about every week or two and perscribe medications. We can't than Dr. Mangan enough for all his generousity.
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The above photos show Ziggy at the . San Luis Rey Equine Hospital Ziggy is coming out of surgery and going into the recovery room. That's our big boy upside down on the padded gurnee. Then his is going into the recovery room. Next Dr. Mangan put in the lavage system which is a small tube going into his eyelid. This allows us to continue to give medication to Ziggy for the next 2 weeks while he is at home. Then finally Ziggy is in his stall at the hospital, sporting his new pirate eye patch...he starts to eat a little dinner!
Our Medical bills have been over $12,000 so far this year, last year we were at about $3,000 for the entire year. PLEASE HELP and Click this button to donate to our MEDICAL FUND using American Express, Visa and MC
This has come up on us very quickly and the horses truly need your help! THIS WEEK to buy additional alfalfa and oat hay for all 40 horses. This is a crisis for us at Villa Chardonnay. Our cost for Alfala/Hay alone is about $4000 a month, plus feed and grain for the older horses with very few teeth. We have used our reserves to pay recent vet bills and much needed repairs to the property. PLEASE HELP FEED THE HORSES AND DONATE A BALE TODAY!
An Epidemic of Abandonment
The greatness of a nation and it's moral progress can be measured by the way in which it's animals are treated - Gandi.
Villa Chardonnay is a sanctuary for horses and other animals that was formed to care for those who can’t speak, for those who can’t tell us what is wrong, for those who need our help and our care & love.
The economy does not help the situation. These horses may have owners who can no longer financially care for them. After we bring a horse to Villa Chardonnay is a sanctuary where they have a home, love, veterinary care, food, water and more love. After we rehabilitate a horse he or she will remain at Villa Chardonnay to ensure a life time of care and love, becoming a member of the family at Villa Chardonnay. Villa Chardonnay is a non-for profit 501(c) (3) tax-exempt agency and all donations are tax deductable.