BITSGAL
Nov. 17, 2009, 08:02 AM
Hi all!
I just wanted to say a big hello and to introduce myself. My name is Joni Fink and I am the Executive Director of Back in the Saddle Horse Adoption, Inc (BITS). We are located in Linden, PA and are an all volunteer 501 ( c) (3) non profit organization dedicated to helping horses in need and horses destined for slaughter. Horses enter our program through either donation by owners that are no longer able to care for them, through kill pens at auction houses and through the help of others when a horse is found in a desperate situation and needs immediate help. We can house 16 horses at our current facility but are seeking a larger farm so we can do much more. When space/funds allow, we travel to auction houses and pull horses directly from the kill pens ... at this point we literally are the last hope for these horses. We bring them home, have them vetted, rehab them and train them into a career in which they are best suited. They then are offered for adoption under a strict contract which protects them for the remainder of their life.
We are looking forward to working with everyone on this forum to share what we have learned through the years and also to raise awareness of what can happen when horses are sent to auction.
More information can be found on our website at www.bitshorseadopt.org
Please let me know if you have any questions and I will be more than happy to answer and questions/concerns you may have!
Thanks!
Joni
I just wanted to say a big hello and to introduce myself. My name is Joni Fink and I am the Executive Director of Back in the Saddle Horse Adoption, Inc (BITS). We are located in Linden, PA and are an all volunteer 501 ( c) (3) non profit organization dedicated to helping horses in need and horses destined for slaughter. Horses enter our program through either donation by owners that are no longer able to care for them, through kill pens at auction houses and through the help of others when a horse is found in a desperate situation and needs immediate help. We can house 16 horses at our current facility but are seeking a larger farm so we can do much more. When space/funds allow, we travel to auction houses and pull horses directly from the kill pens ... at this point we literally are the last hope for these horses. We bring them home, have them vetted, rehab them and train them into a career in which they are best suited. They then are offered for adoption under a strict contract which protects them for the remainder of their life.
We are looking forward to working with everyone on this forum to share what we have learned through the years and also to raise awareness of what can happen when horses are sent to auction.
More information can be found on our website at www.bitshorseadopt.org
Please let me know if you have any questions and I will be more than happy to answer and questions/concerns you may have!
Thanks!
Joni