Help a Horse Day: 'Save Our Seniors'

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RVR Horse Rescue will be participating in the ASPCA® (The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals®) national Help A Horse Day contest, competing for a chance to win some of the $110,000 available in grant prizes. The nationwide competition for rescues, shelters, animal control agencies and sanctuaries that adopt out equines is designed to raise awareness about the year-round lifesaving work they do to find homes for horses. As a participating group, RVR Horse Rescue will kick off their ‘Save Our Seniors’ Campaign, a creative and concerted effort to place more senior horses into loving forever homes.
 
The official S.O.S. Program Launch is taking place Saturday, April 28, from 8am-noon at RVR Horse Rescue, 12611 Hayes Clan Road, Riverview. The open house fundraiser entails a community breakfast, BINGO, 50/50 raffle, presentations, site tours, and a chance to meet horses undergoing rehabilitation as well as some senior horses who have found loving forever families. The breakfast is free for those 55+ and $5 otherwise. Golf carts will be available for transportation although the facility is not ADA-compliant.
 
Help a Horse Day is celebrated annually in April – chosen for its significance in the ASPCA’s long history of horse protection. In 1866, ASPCA founder Henry Bergh stopped a cart driver from beating his horse, resulting in the first successful arrest for horse mistreatment in April of that year. Now in its fifth year, Help a Horse Day has been a meaningful way for hundreds of equine rescues and sanctuaries to garner community support for their lifesaving work. Since 2014, the ASPCA has awarded equine groups more than $300,000 in grant funding through the Help a Horse Day contest.
 
Motivated by the results of ASPCA equine research suggesting there could be approximately 2.3 million adults in the U.S. with both the resources and desire to adopt a horse in need, Help a Horse Day 2018 is focused on finding more good homes for  horses..
 
For more information about RVR Horse Rescue, please visit RVRHorseRescue.org.