DROPS

❗️Drops’s life on Friday the 13th. $325USD deposit needed by Monday morning.

Friday the 13th. A date we usually mention with a smile when something goes wrong. A delayed bus, lost keys, a matter postponed to the following week. For Drops, this Friday marks the beginning of a weekend during which we must raise the money for his life.

Today, we would like to bring a bit of that luck to Drops. In our own way. Gather people, raise the deposit, and be able to say on Monday morning that we are stopping his sale. So that the words “he was lucky” are backed by concrete help. Yours, ours, and everyone’s who joins in for him over this weekend.

Drops is at the dealer’s. We need a $325 USD deposit to stop his sale to slaughter and gain time to complete his buyout. Our deadline is Monday morning.

A horse supposedly has bad luck when he ends up in a place like this. Bad luck with his owner. Bad luck that there was no room left for him. Bad luck that maintenance costs more than the person intended to spend. But how many subsequent human decisions can fit into just one such word? In November, the promise of care becomes very concrete. Hay must be ordered, shelter prepared, bedding taken care of. The days are shorter, expenses are piling up. That is when it is most visible whether there is still room for an animal in human plans. Because a horse will need to eat all winter, regardless of how much his owner’s life has changed.

Hay needs to be ordered before the previous supply runs out. The farrier’s appointment must be scheduled before his hooves start interfering with walking. When a horse isn’t eating well, you need to check why, find a vet, and pay for the visit. Care also consists of those things that are rarely visible in photos. Anticipation, remembering, and reacting in time. This is what responsibility for a horse looks like over the years. Work changes, human health changes, the situation at home changes. The animal still waits for its meal and still needs care. If the current owner can no longer provide it, a further solution must be found. The entire rest of the horse’s life depends on what that solution will be.

Today, we are looking for that solution for Drops. A small pony with a long, dark mane, whom you meet at the exact moment when the deposit needs to be raised. We would love to be able to tell you more about him. Learn his habits, check his health, see how he fits in among other horses. He will need time for all of that. First, however, we must secure that time for him.

You know how many rescued animals we have under our care. You know our appeals for hay, treatment, and winter preparations. We know what it means to take in another horse. He needs to be factored into the next feed order, a space prepared, his first check-ups seen to. To check if he approaches his food, if the other horses let him eat in peace, if he needs separate feeding. The arrival of a rescued animal kicks off this work. And we want to do it for Drops. Take him in also for those days when nothing happens that can be shown in an appeal. When you simply have to go out to the horses, lay out the hay, check the water, and stay longer with the one who requires attention. Life, which we are asking for today, is made up of such days.

Perhaps you remember one of our ponies back from the photos at the dealer’s. Today you see him in the herd, in the paddock, by the full feeder. Between those images were donations, transport, visits, the daily work of the caretakers. We deeply want to walk this path with Drops as well. So that after some time, we can show him to you again and write that he is already with us. For the first step, we need a $325 USD deposit by Monday morning. We have this weekend for it. That is why a joint mobilization is so crucial. One person donates, another shares, the next passes the appeal further. You don’t have to carry the entire rescue of Drops on your shoulders alone. We desperately need many people to chip in whatever they can.

I am asking you, join in. One dollar, two or five, whatever you can allocate for his life today.

We would love to look back at this date one day and say that it was on Friday the 13th that people gathered around him, thanks to whom everything began to change. Help us give Drops such a beginning.