Horse Help Hotline
Horse Help Hotline
Horse Help Hotline
The SC Horsemen’s Council Horse Welfare Committee offers the HORSE HELP HOTLINE to those in need of help for their horses. Its purpose is to link people with horse help facilities and programs that can offer options before the “Unwanted Horse” becomes neglected, abused, or the object of a legal seizure. It further hopes to link rescue operations to one another so that they may connect, communicate and reach out across our state to each other when help is needed. This hotline is by no means definitive or complete. It will be updated periodically as more organizations and facilities are discovered to assist horses. The initial list is comprised of statewide organizations, local area organizations and facilities, and specialty programs/offerings that may be of help.
As a note, some counties in SC do not provide animal control service at all; others may rely on local Humane Societies and not all have equine facilities, but may refer you to other organizations that provide help. You may contact us at schorsecouncil1@aol.com.
Missing or Stolen Horses: contact Stolen Horse International, Inc at http://www.netposse.com/
Statewide Equine Rescue Operations /Organizations
1. Animal Rescue & Relief, Inc.
P.O. Box 13477
Charleston, SC 29422
Contact person: Michelle Reid
Email: arrinc@yahoo.com
website: www.arrinc2.petfinder.com
Phone: 843-817-2367
2. L.E.A.R.N. (Livestock & Equine Awareness & Rescue Network)
P.O. Box 619
Ravenel, SC 29470
Contact person: Elizabeth Steed
Website: www.learnhorserescue.com
Email: elizabethmsteed@aol.com
Phone: 843-991-4879
3. S.C.A.R.E. (South Carolina Awareness and Rescue for Equines, Inc.)
312 Shetland Lane
Lexington, SC 29073
Contact person: Jan Carter or any of her area reps for SCARE
Website: www.scequinerescue.org , also on Facebook
Email: scare@scequinerescue.org
Phone: 803-422-6585
Area Equine Animal Control Shelters and Rescue Facilities/Operations
1. Beaufort County Animal Shelter
23 Shelter Church Road
Beaufort, SC 29906
Contact person: Sabrina Smith
Phone: 843-846-3904
2. City of Charleston
80 Lockwood Drive
Charleston, SC 29406
Contact person: Marcus Grant
Phone: 843-557-7434
3. Charleston County Animal Shelter
2455 Remount road
N. Charleston, SC 29405
Phone: 843-747-4849
4. Colleton County Animal Control & Environmental Control
33 Poor Farm Road
Walterboro, SC 29488
Contact person: Tim Lynes
Email: wlynes@colletoncounty.org
Phone: 843-893-2651
5. Tim Emerson
Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation (for racehorses)
P.O. Box 189
8200 State Farm Road
Rembert, SC 29128
Phone: 803-896-3200
6. Equine Rescue of Aiken
532 Glenwood Drive
Aiken, SC 29803
Contact person: Jim Rhodes
Email: aikenequinerescue@gmail.com
Website: www.aikenequinerescue.com/welcome.htm
Phone: 706-373-6350
7. Greenwood Humane Society
235 Wilbanks Circle
Greenwood, SC 29649
Contact person: Karen Pettay
Email: hsoqwd@embarqmail.com
Note: Equine rescue referrals made to Joe Mann at Big Oaks Farm
Email: manmade@embarqmail.com
8. Hampton County Animal Shelter
460 Cemetery Road
Varnville, SC 29944
Contact person: JC Clifton
Email: animalcare123@hamptoncountysc.org
Phone: 803-943-7567
9. Healing Horses
c/o Project Halo
P.O. Box 667924
Charlotte, NC 28266
Contact person: Katie Holme
Website: www.healinghorses.us
Email: info@healinghorses.us
Phone: 803-804-0544
Note: new facility just outside Fort Mill area
10. Hollow Creek Farm
P.O. Box 147
Sharon, SC 29742
Website: http://hollowcreekfarm.org
Email: artists4animals@juno.com
11. H.O.P.E. Acres Rescue
P.O. Box 2037
Goose Creek, SC 29445
Website: www.hopeacresrescue.org
Phone: 843-412-3519
12. KC Humane Society
Camden, SC
Contact person: Peggy Spivey
Phone: 803-425-6017
Note: no facilities to take in horses, but does do referrals
13. Orangeburg Animal Control
1596 Ellis Avenue
Orangeburg, SC 29118
Contact Person: Ben Boensch
Phone: 803-534-0045
14. PEARL (Palmetto Equine Awareness & Rescue League)
P.O. Box 362
Sandy Springs, SC 29677
Contact person: Nicole Walukewicz
Website: www.equinerescue.org
Email: info@pearlsc.org
Phone: 864-287-9939
Note: cover upstate area
15. Peele Court Stables
351 Peele Court
Swansea, SC 29160
Email: stephaniewelch@peelecourtstables.com
Phone: 803-223-1171
16. P.E.E.R.
1512 Hwy. 61
Ridgeville, SC 29472
Email: peer_horserescue@yahoo.com
Phone: 843-871-1909
17. Pickens County Animal Control
186 Prison Camp Road
Pickens, SC 29671
Phone: 864-898-5929
18. SCARE of York County
5340 Canaan Church Road
Blacksburg, SC 29702
Contact person: Sandy Hyrowski
Phone: 803-925-6719
19. Sally J. Boss
Palmetto Farms Horse Rescue and Sanctuary
1200 Pleasant Grove Church Road
Cheraw, SC 29250
Contact person: Sally Boss(843) 703-9124 or Brandy Cole (843) 253-3095
Email: palmettofarmssc@yahoo.com
20. Pure Thoughts and Foal Rescue
Honea Path, SC
Contact: Tracy Steiger
Email: Yankee02@bellsouth.net
Website: www.pthr.org
Phone: 716-341-0012
21. Steve Lowder Farm
4510 Elliot Highway
Lynchburg, SC 29080
Contact person: Darla Lowder
Website: www.trfinc.org
Email: darlalowder@ftci.net
Phone: 803-968-2322
Note: This is part of the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation for
racehorses.
Programs and Special Offerings
1. Hay at cost contact Bill Steele, Director, ASC Greenway.
Email: billsteele@leroysprings.com
Phone: 803-242-9827
2. Unwanted Horse Veterinary Relief Campaign provides qualifying equine rescue and retirement facilities with complimentary equine vaccines for horses in their care. Must have a 501(c)(3) tax exempt status. To download an application and the American Association of Equine Practitioners Care Guidelines or to learn more about the program, visit www.UHVRC.org. Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health and AAEP are very proud to support equine rescue and retirement facilities.
3. Stallions to Geldings Program
Offered to those currently using their stallion for breeding who could not otherwise afford the cost of the procedure and to those who have stallions in the same pasture with mares ,and, as a result, are producing unwanted foals. Visit the website at www.stalliontogeldingsupport.org or call 704-843-2380 or email: sgs@stalliontogeldingsupport.org to learn more. Funded by the Horse Protection Society and is available nationwide.
Operation Gelding was established by the SC Horsemen’s Council under its Horse Welfare Committee. Check out information below or contact elizabethmsteed@aol.com for more information.
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