Dusty was rescued from a property in Central Point Oregon with Royal Crown. Royal Crown (“RC”) came to the Sanctuary because law enforcement instructed the owner to give him up or put him down. Dusty was the alpha horse in the herd of 17 horses, and the owner did not like him (the feeling was mutual!) and wanted him to leave. Even though Dusty was in good health and did not qualify as an Equamore horse (we believed he had other alternatives), Equamore volunteers removed him from a bad situation in the hopes of finding him a forever home and giving the remaining horses on the property, which we were unable to remove, a better chance at the limited feed. So the starvation victim, RC, and the alpha horse, Dusty, both came to the Sanctuary.
After staying at the Sanctuary and receiving training while we looked for a good home, one of our volunteers who had been getting to know Dusty adopted him! Dusty is a sweet and steady guy and is a cheerful student under saddle. He is now a privately boarded horse at the Sanctuary stalled next to Mister, his owner’s other rescue horse. Not only did Dusty find the best home possible, his owner helps support the other horses with Dusty’s monthly board payments. We will be interested to see if he and RC get together after RC is fully integrated into the gelding herd. Talking about happy if unlikely endings!
