Dude's Ranch Equine Rescue Center

User Rating: 1 out of 5 stars

AM and all others below, we had EXACTLY the same experience. This person KNOWINGLY SOLD US A PREGNANT HORSE FOR OUR DAUGHTER AND LET US FIGURE IT OUT MONTHS LATER. This person is shifty, irresponsible, evasive, and abusive in the name of "saving" horses. She fleeced us and continues to be evasive -- Will not even give us proof that our horse was ever signed over to her as an adoption or provide her registration papers (having sold her to us with a certain pricetag as a "registered breed"). To those considering adopting a horse: There are PLENTY of bona-fide agencies who will help you find a horse who is right for you and will NOT force you to let them keep half-ownership or force you to pay board for months after the adoption. GO ELSEWHERE. If I could give this place a zero, I would.

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User Rating: 1 out of 5 stars

Where to start? I won't go into the extremely poor training, riding, horsekeeping, or facilities. Lessons and "trail rides" are overpriced and unsatisfactory. My experience: this is supposed to be a horse rescue. I adopted a 14 year old TB gelding (i.e. paid $5,000). Even though I lived an hour away, I agreed to board the horse there for awhile & take lessons so that she could "make sure I was able" to care for him. I paid her $275 for board in a dirt pasture with 30 other horses, plus $100 extra for hay (alfalfa), plus $100 extra for grain. He was supposed to get fed separately, hay and grain, every day. I could not go out every day since it was so far away, and I have to work. Turns out she was using my money to buy hay for all her horses, and practically starving mine. He was fed two flakes a day at most, in a herd of 30, all fed together. He ended up with hardly anything due to her horses bullying him. He was severely underweight, and when I questioned her, she charged me more and said she was feeding him 50 lbs of hay a day! More like 10 lbs, if he was lucky. After 10 months, when I came to my senses and came to take him away, she came storming out of her house and told me I couldn't take him, because she owned half. So even though I paid thousands of dollars in medical bills when he colicked, and had to pay her $500 to take him 50 miles to the vet hospital, she was claiming I didn't "own" him. I took him anyway, since he's my horse! He was several hundred pounds underweight, with a serious wound on his leg from being bullied. The good news: he is now 5 minutes from me, a happy, healthy, beautiful horse who gets fed 4 times a day-his own food!-and is loving life. I can't believe the horrible experience I had here-she's supposed to be running a rescue, but in the year I was there, she never adopted out one other horse-although one did die from an infection after being kicked. She used me to feed her herd of horses so that she didn't have to get a real job to pay for them-this "rescue" is a scam-she just wants to have her collection of horses and not have to work to feed them. She even was letting horses breed! At a rescue! I don't know how she will pay to feed all those horses, but I'm sure she won't get a job to do it, just look for some other sucker to finance her "ranch". Bottom line: I got ripped off, my horse got starved, and you will be ripped off, too, if you go here. Horrible.

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User Rating: 1 out of 5 stars

Don't bother going here. The fences are made out of chicken wire and wood that are falling apart. There is an electric fence that shocked me. Even when I went out in the summer to help with her horse camp I never even received a "thank you" from her. I did all the work while she sat on her butt watching tv! I don't recommend coming here, she might put you to work! BOO HISS TO HER!

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