Re-homing Resources

If you are looking for general information and accredited rescues, you may find valuable resources at:

• Re-Home Your Horse

• Global Federation of Animal Sanctuaries

• Equine Rescue Network  

If you are seeking re-homing advice, send us an email to arrange time for a discussion, or call the office (607-538-1200).

If you have an equine to surrender, please fill out the Equine Re-Homing Questionnaire below and return it to us. This will provide us with important information so we can better assist you.

If you adopted your equine from a rescue, and can no longer care for it, please contact them, as reputable rescues always welcome their horses back.

Can Rosemary Farm take my horse?

Rosemary Farm Sanctuary is an at-will equine rescue and is contacted almost daily from private owners looking to surrender horses. Logistically and practically, it is not possible to welcome them all, but any answer regarding an equine would be dependent upon the situation, as well as available resources at the time. The focus of the Sanctuary since inception has been to help horses in dire need, i.e., horses potentially heading to slaughter or suffering neglect or abuse. These are equines who have been largely failed by humans. We typically rescue within a few hours of our home base in the Catskill Mountains of New York and we welcome SPCA cases, law enforcement seizures, premature euthanasia, branded mustangs, auction saves, homeless and abandoned equines including those left behind after a death, and in some situations, owner surrenders. It is important that the Sanctuary keep its resources available for these equines.

Honoring Your Senior Horse

Horse ownership is a choice. No equine rescue is a free retirement program for privately owned senior horses. A senior of any species wants to remain at home. Owners are encouraged to keep their senior equines for life, or if that is not possible, to seek out a less expensive retirement boarding situation, or discuss with their vet whether humane euthanasia is appropriate, so the horse ends its life peacefully in the place it knows best. This matters. The emotional and financial cost of such, both the burden and the honor, belong to the owner. Truly, it’s the single most important part of horse ownership.