Thanks for "Just Horsin' Around" 4-H Group and leader, Sarah Mackey, for teaching kids to get involved with animal rescue!  Visit their Tack Swap this Sunday at 10010 Acme Road in Rittman to show your support for the kids and for the rescued horses of Happy Trails!  Here's the details!

Neighbors reported cries coming from the basement of an abandoned house in Cleveland. Five goats were discovered in the basement, and Happy Trails joined the Cleveland APL in a rescue effort. Here's the story through Channel 8 and Channel 3!  Click here for Channel 8 - http://www.fox8.com/news/wjw-goats-marijuana-grow-operation-found-in-cleveland-ss-txt,0,7431247.story   Click here for Channel 3 - http://www.wkyc.com/news/article/178614/3/Cleveland-Police-find-goats-crying-for-help-in-duplex

Gather your antiques (or at least what you think are antiques) and learn the truth behind their history and value!  Visit the Happy Trails Antiques Appraisal Fair on Saturday, April 16th from noon to 3pm at the Kent Elks Club, and receive a written appraisal for your special family heirloom. Here a flier with more details!

They're big! They're beautiful! They're gentle giants!  They are three of the Happy Trails draft horses that are available for adoption!  Here's their flier. Please pass along their flier to friends, family and co-workers, and ask them to in turn forward them to others as well!

Get your Happy Trails fix!  Here's the Happy Trails March newsletter with all the latest stories and sanctuary happenings! (Printed copies normally arrive in the mail about a week after the newsletter appears on the website!)

The crippled and arthritic piggies snuggle into their straw underneath their heat lamps on these bitter cold winter nights, but we also give them heavy blankets, sleeping bags or thick comforters to crawl underneath. This brutal winter and the sheer number of pot belly pig residents has caused us to go through a tremendous number of blankets. Can you help us track some down?  Here's more info.

Do we really need to teach people that it's not smart or humane to keep exotic animals as pets?  Does Ohio really need to learn that dog auctions need to be banned and that they support the puppy mill industry?  Apparently so is the answer to both questions. Sad but true. Please take a moment to make your voice heard on behalf of the animals. Here's how....

Happy Trails is collecting emergency donations for the Medina SPCA. They rescued 113 Cairn Terriers from Chippewa Lake. The dogs are matted, hungry and in poor condition. Many are pregnant. The Medina SPCA needs newspapers, food, blankets, squeaky toys, puppy playpens, volunteers to clean cages and of course monetary donations. Donations and supplies can be dropped off either at Happy Trails (call 330-296-5914 for drop-off times) or at the Medina County SPCA Animal Care Facility, 245 S. Medina St. from 12-4 on Mon,Tue.,Thurs, Fri ,and Sat. 

Spring is just around the corner, and it's time to get out and get involved in your community!  We LOVE our senior citizens, and Happy Trails provides plenty of volunteer opportunities for seniors!  Kep as busy as you want to by helping out as a tour guide, meeting and greeting visitors, working in the office, driving small animals in pet porters to the vet, weeding spring flower beds or returning phone calls.  To learn more, call us at 330-296-5914.

Happy Trails is planning to add several horse foster homes to our foster home program.  The horses available for foster have already completed their rehabilitation and are simply waiting to be adopted!  If you would like to be involved in animal rescue and help care for a rescued horse until we are able to find it a permanent home, contact Happy Trails for more details at 330-296-5914! For some basic info, click on the headline!

Pigs like Dozer, raised in the comfort of an indoor home, are becoming homeless in the middle of winter. It seems like the calls are coming into Happy Trails in catastrophic waves. There are no less than 15 indoor pot belly pigs in need of being re-homed through no fault of their own. Please share this information - click on the headline for the story.

We received no less than 150 emails and phone calls from folks who were concerned about the 52 Thoroughbred horses that were destined for the Sugarcreek Auction after their owner recently passed away. The outpouring of concern for these animals shows the amazing level of compassion that is out there. However, I'd like to remind everyone that between 250 and 300 other horses are run through the Sugarcreek Auction every weekend, and that there are plenty of horses already in rescue groups in need of your passion and help. On behalf of horse rescue organizations, I'd like to offer this commentary on the situation and ask you to share!

Happy Trails infamous Belgian Hitch Team just lost Tony, our beloved draft horse, several days before the new year.  We offer this tribute to his life, and credit him and his partner, Red, for starting our Amish Horse Retirement Program. Here is a tribute to a truly gentle giant, Tony My Tiger....

The all-new Happy Trails "Find It Free' Committee" will begin posting  supplies that are needed each week on the website in hopes of locating donated items that will help us be good stewards of our funds and help us trim our weekly expenses!  Click on the headline to learn about this weeks "Find It Free" items!  Thank you for your help in spreading the word!

The story of Toshiaki the pig is sure to touch your heart and send out a wake-up call. The things that we find out regarding animal care that is legal here in Ohio amazes us every day. Toshiaki deserves a chance at life, and as he recovers, our current challange is keeping a stock of mineral oil on hand. Here's the story of one adorable, gentle little pig...

Happy Trails is always concious of being good stewards of our funds.  Our all new "Find It Free" committee is designed to help us locate donated supplies and items that we might otherwise have to purchase. Networking in this way will enable us to stretch our dollars further and help cut down on expenses for the sanctuary. Here's the flier explaining the program. We hope you will join us!

Here's an easy way to support the animal rescue program of Happy Trails!  Use GoodSearch as your search engine and each time you click on it, you are quickly and easily earning money for Happy Trails! You can also earn money for the animals by shopping at Good Shop!  Here's how to participate!

Here's the December 2010 Holiday Edition of the Happy Trails newsletter. Please enjoy and pass it along to friends, family and co-workers!

Once a year, Happy Trails sends out an appeal requesting your help. As a donor-based organization, our work is funded mainly by private donations, so it is your kindness and generosity that make our work possible. You are Happy Trails!  Here is the letter which arrived in mailboxes this past week. We appreciate your help and your support! Donations for the annual appeal can be made on-line through PayPal!

Happy Trails is now a part of "Cars 4 Causes, a Charity That Gives To Charities," an organization that helps non-profit organizations with funding through donated vehicles/boats/rvs and motorcycles.  How does it work?  It's easy to donate! Be sure to check out their website at http://www.cars4causes.net/ and check out Happy Trails listing here

Many thanks to the over-200 folks who attended Happy Trails first ever Compassionate Thanksgiving!  We were simply overwhelmed and in awe of the turn-out, and were delighted to share such an incredible holiday meal and enjoy the company of such an amazing group of caring and compassionate people! Due to the amazing interest, we are now searching for the use of an even bigger donated venue for next year - can you help? Here's a few details!

Yet another young, pink, farm piggy arrived at Happy Trails last week after being rescued from a factory pig farm here in Ohio where the pigs are fed nothing but liquid waste from the facility that the hog owner also owns.  One pig was sadly euthanized, but this young man is determined to recover!  We always give the animals really cool names that have a special meaning. Can you help name the new pink piggy? Check out his photos!

This story does have a happy ending, so grab a kleenex and take a short break in your hectic day and learn about the strength and will to live of one incredible horse named Sir Buckeye Of Columbus by the vet students who loved him. He is now available for adoption. Can you please help us spread the word? Here is his story!

Like many other non-profit organizations, Happy Trails is being very careful with our financial resources. At this time as we trim our budget, we have decided to temporarily discontinue "Animal Talk", the Happy Trails radio program. The archives will still be available through our website, so please enjoy listening to our past segments from this last year! We truly appreciate all of our listeners and hope to possibly secure a show sponsor for future broadcasts.

Can you please help Sonic find a home? He arrived at Happy Trails, starved and suffering from neglect. He is now healthy, happy, and ready to find his forever home! And he is, the perfect gentleman! Please share his flier!  Perhaps you would be kind enough to print out several fliers and hang them in up in a local businesses or pass them out at your next club meeting to let everyone know that Sonic is now available for adoption!

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