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Welcome to the SHARE Website
Society for Hooved Animals' Rescue and Emergency
Our mission is to maintain the integrity, well-being, and health of hooved animals through education first.
SHARE is a new nonprofit humane society in the Champaign area. We have investigators that cover a large portion of Illinois.
At SHARE, our goal is to help equines trapped in situations of abuse and starvation. It is also our wish as well to educate horse owners on how to properly care for their horses.
The humane society offers to help educate owners on the proper daily care and maintenance; vetting and hoof care as well as nutrition and emergencies. The society also rescues severely neglected horses and provides rehabilitation services and placement through adoption.
This is not an easy task; many volunteers are needed in order to provide this care and support. There are many people who are not aware of hooved animals that are abused and neglected. SHARE would like to inform people about this.
Site Summary
Adoption List - Listed on this page are animals currently in need of a home.
Adoption Application - The adoption appliction is available on this page.
Adoption Requirements - You must meet all requirements to be eligible to adopt.
Wish List - SHARE cannot live on love alone! See what you can donate to help the organization - feed, buckets, blankets, and even volunteers!
Contact Us - Get in touch with us!
Success Stories - Updates on successful adoptions. See how the efforts of SHARE have affected abused and neglected horses' lives for the better.
Member List - List of current SHARE members.
Calendar - Dates of upcoming SHARE events.
Related Links - Information for education of owners and other relevant websites.
Donors - A current list of all individuals and businesses that have made donations to SHARE
True
Stewardship
When we accept ownership of a horse, we also accept stewardship.
We all realize horses have the strength to overpower us and gain their freedom if they so choose. It is only by the horse's cooperation that we can ride, drive, or even touch him. And when we accept our horse's willingness to be used, we can also accept stewardship of him. Stewardship is different from ownership. When we own an object, it is ours to do with as we please. With stewardship, we are bound to take good care of it, too.
The fact a horse is alive and breathing doesn't mean he's well. A true horseperson doesn't need a course in horse psychology or a battery of lab tests and radiological scans to tell if a horse is mentally and physically well. The look in his eye, the way he carries himself, his interest in his surroundings, his work, and the health of his coat and feet tell the story.
Stewardship isn't just about feeding and routine health care, although that's a big part. It's also about serving the horse's needs as well as our own. Far too many violations of stewardship occur every day, and they're not all situations that would fall under the umbrella of obvious abuse. Performance- or personality-altering drugs or tying horses in uncomfortable positions for hours on end before a show to break their spirit; blocking pain to allow a horse with an injury to work and risk injuring himself further; sending a horse to a killer auction to squeeze those last few hundred dollars out of him - these are all breaches of stewardship.
The contemporary verterinarian's oath is a good example of stewardship: "I solemnly swear to use my scientific knowledge and skills to protect the health and well-being of all nonhuman animals, to relieve pain and suffering in nonhuman animals, to strengthen the understanding of the inherent needs and interests of all nonhuman animals, and to promote the preservation of wildlife and their natural environment.
Notice there's nothing in the oath about financial gain or treating the horse to achieve the goals of the owner. We should all take a similar oath and live by it. Our horses don't owe us. We owe them.
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Our
First Adoptee - Harry Potter (H.P.) and Dillon
Our first adoptee is a pony named "H.P.," or "Harry Potter." His new and permanent owner is Dillon. Dillon and Harry Potter go trail riding with Dillon’s mother, a former horse trainer.
H.P. has gotten very attached to Dillon in a remarkably short time. He follows along the lane when Dillon returns from school.
Dillon's mother reports that H.P. is soon to begin training to pull a cart.
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