UPDATE……LOCATION HAS BEEN CHANGED TO THE KENO FIRE HOUSE, OUR WEATHER IS VERY SOGGY!!

 Come one Come All to the

Celebration For

  Project Spirit!!!

When:        Sunday November 9th, 11am to 4pm

Where:               Home of Project Spirit

                               13910 Hwy 66

                                Keno, OR

  This fund raising event will have music, food,

and vendors of all kinds.  From candy to beads,

from metal art to quilted art, from beauty products

to skin conditioners, from jewelry to t-shirts. 

We even have a tractor to show you.

You can make an appointment to get your taxes done.

You can purchase your raffle tickets for $20 each (or 7 - $100) for

 your chance to win the “Spirit Memorial Bench”.

If anyone from out of town would like to buy tickets for this awesome bench, please Paypal your money through the website or mail me a check with all of your info on it, and I will make out your tickets and send you a photo of them so you can have a record.

Our silent auction will be appreciated by all.

Join your friends and neighbors as we celebrate.

“PROJECT SPIRIT”

 We still have over 40 horses to feed from the Hill Rd case. We are running out of hay and we need help. Please, if you can spare a donation of cash we can buy what we need to get these horses fed until they are adopted… or even better, a donation of hay, we would be eternally grateful, and so would the horses. Winter is coming and we are struggling. Also, as people abandon their animals, we are picking them up and caring for them too. This is going to be a dreadful winter for us here, and if we run out of food for these wonderful creatures,  life will get very ugly for us all. If you can spare any small amount, they will add up to a ton of hay in no time.

 Thank you!!!

Now to lighter stuff…we all need to smile too don’t we??

Watch this page for new items of interest. I will add fun pictures each month to keep us up to date.

These are the GREAT gals from the Amazing saddles 4-H club. They spent all day baking goodies and sold them at the horse show, raised lots of hard earned cash for the horses. Lori, Kathleen and Maggie, you are just truly amazing!!! These girls also took on a very emaciated horse, and they did a grand job of bringing her back. How lucky we are to have them on our side. Thanks girls!!!GREAT smiles!!!!This is Jeff and Debbie, (and Stephanie peeping over the back) they own the Keno Grill, and are huge supporters of our cause, they work hard to put the word out and collect funds to help keep us going. Not only is there good food at the diner, there is great heart and compassion…and tonsa fun too. Thank you guys!!!Here are the greatest gals who ever did your taxes, Pat and Jeanne….they run ”Just The Facts”, a bookkeeping and tax office  in Keno and they also help out with the Farmers Market held on Saturdays through the summer., and they always have a Project Spirit table.  They have gone to a great deal of work to help us, and we just think they are GREAT. The gorgeous blanket was made by my pal Ivy and we just had to show it off. Awesome. Thank you all of the folks in Keno who work hard to keep us going.

Project Spirit and the Klamath Humane Society have been involved with a huge abuse case. There is a ranch outside of town that has been a major problem for over 15 yrs and now it has finally come to a head. There were 55+ horses, over 200 sheep and a small herd of cows, all in dire need of help.

 It was a long haul, but we now have posession of these animals and are placing them in good experienced homes.

 There are some very nice horses in this herd, mainly Quarter horses and Paints. All they need is a lot of human contact and love.  

On Friday, 27th of June, one of the mares was found dead next to her newborn baby. Harry, the foreman of the ranch did a great job tending to her with cattle colostrum and kept her warm and fed and called for help. We picked up the baby and brought her home to Project Spirit, where she was tested by the vet, given her tetanus and selenium shots and declared healthy.

My friend Cass and I fed her every two hours until the crisis time was over,  and now she is strong and healthy and will be a big gorgeous horse one day. 

   We named her Chase, after the great ADA who made this all happen. Thank you Cole Chase, you are super!!

Great friend Cass helping care for Chase 

Nadine and Chase having Dinner. 

The stallions have been gelded, they were treated with superb care by the three ranch hands, and a very caring vet. It was a pleasure to watch them work, every step was quiet and easy and competent.

 My hat is off to you Roy Agard, Chad Steele, and Dean Mundy.

These horses are fat and healthy now, and under great care because of the angel ranch owner (who refuses to be named) and her ranch hands. What a great crew, we could not have accomplished this without you.

This is our favorite sweet love on the ranch. We have had the pleasure of his company for about 4 yrs now, he came as a owner release and we took him just because he is so darned cute!! Something to make you smile. He started showing signs of ill health shortly after the summer ended, and after extensive testing, he was found to have a form of hepatitis, the kind that kills the liver.   He came from an area where Tansy Ragwort grows in abundance and this was probably the cause. It just started taking him down.

 We treat him with a liquid herbal mixture called Restore, that we have shipped in from Global Herbs in England, and he is maintaining beautifully. 3cc’s twice a day and he is living life to the fullest and continues to run this place like a real champ.

 Thank you Global Herbs.

This is Little Charlie assisting Karen as she trims the hooves on Lucy, another little darling who now lives with my friend Gin, and thinks she is the Queen of the barn. (She is.)

Charlie is greatly missed.

 We will add new pictures as they improve.

UPDATE.

Centurion went to the vet today and his poor old teeth got a serious once over by Dr John. He told us he is 25 not a hundred, so there is lots of life in the old boy yet.  He did very well and I think his food willl stick to his ribs a lot better now he can process it better.  He was identified as a ex show horse, very well bred and cared for in his younger years, such a shame he ended up like this. Updated photos will be taken as soon as this bloody cold weather goes away and I can remove his two blankets.

OK, cold weather is gone and Century is gaining ground like a champ. His energy is soaring and he is very happy with his life.

 I recently met the wonderful lady, Gina Janelli, who was responsible for saving his life, she saw he was not being cared for and fed him over the fence all through the winter, she even bought him a waterproof blanket. She is an angel, because without her, he would have died, no doubt. Gina, I salute you!!

 He has been adopted by a wonderful lady who will keep him on her ranch, in the style to which we all want to become accustomed, in love and care and good company. Thank you Marie.

This was just under a month later, the day he went to his new home.

Richard was young, thin, and very ill when we found him, he had a major infection that was touch and go for a while, but with our great vet and lots of tender care, he recovered fully. He was adopted by a wonderful man who raised him very well, and took him on the endurance circuit. He earned the title of number one Novice horse for the Pacific Northwest. And what a first class beauty he grew up to be. A real champ!!!

Thank you Jerry.

Before:

After:

Annie was a cute little paint mare. Annie was the first horse to move into the new Spirit Stable the day after it was completed. A very wonderful police officer helped us with her rescue, he cared enough to stay with it. She was thin, pregnant and afraid of everyone. Within two days the change was amazing, the trust returned and she was comfortable and warm for the first time in years. We had a dreadful winter and the roads were not safe for trailers, so it was 3 weeks before we could get her in to the vet for x-rays on those unbelievably neglected feet. They were almost a foot long.

Karen trimmed what she could reach by digging out the packed snow under her toe and clipping enough to raise her heels and relive the pressure. There was no way she could stand her on three legs for a real look. When we finally got to the vet, he x-rayed and found her feet were way beyond help, and just standing still was pure agony.

The extra weight of a pregnancy would have been cruel and unjust. We had to end it and I think this was one of the hardest decisions I have ever had to make, knowing there was a healthy baby in there.

All we can say is, her last 3 weeks were full of love, the warmth of the cosy Spirit stable, lots of good food, and tons of great support from lots of great people. Thank you Dr. John.

Before:

Again, my wonderful vet was really concerned about his recovery, and warned me this could be a long road that could end in disaster. (I love the way he worries about me.)

I was not sure I could tend to this kind of wound, but as we do, we jumped in and did our best. And our best was helped along by Spencer, who never moved a hair while I was under his back legs, he told me he wanted my help by watching and nuzzling and allowing me crawl under him and clean and dress that wound every day for weeks and weeks and not killing me..I would not be so gracious if the situation were reversed.

I learned so much from Spencer about love and trust, he humbled me. He lives on a ranch in Montana today with one of the finest horse friends I have ever met, and his wounds have healed like magic, and his lopsided face is almost perfect again. This summer Lynn said she will take Spencer and walk every trail she can find and let him heal completely. They make a wonderful team. If only all the horses could have such a partner. Thank you Lynn.

Before:

Spiral wounds are very difficult to heal. 

July:    Looking Better

Spencer, 7 months Later:

This is all for now on Spencer, look at that amazing healing going on!

 We went back a week later with another ton of hay, this time very kindly donated by friends, and we were delighted to see the herd was staying where they belonged. 

 Several trips were made, but the last one was the finest, we were in the company of  three local 4H clubs who donated another ton of hay,  the kids loved helping, the great photo’s were courtesy  of  their talents, and the horses are once again safely at home where we hope they will stay now the snow has melted.

 Thank you  all for your great help, and to Diane for her brilliant photography.

He was used in a teaching class for the volunteers and the deputies to show how to grade horses in abuse cases. He was a grade 1 1/2, and that was after 3 weeks of good food.

He will take a long time to come back completely, but I think he is going to surprise everyone, I see a hint of the gorgeous horse he is about to become.

This is just 8 weeks later.

This is 12 weeks, he is coming on so well it is amazing. What a beauty, and so sweet and loving. One yell from way across the pasture, and he comes a runnin!!!

   Think we may have to change his name soon, but we will leave that to his new owner, whoever you are.

This is bones fit as a fiddle waiting for his new family to pick him up.