All the Kings Horses Equine Rescue

All The Kings Horses Equine Rescue is an animal welfare organization incorporated in the State of Connecticut. We are dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation and placement of equines in need; assisting equines in situations of neglect, abuse or threat of slaughter. To educate the public regarding the standards of care required to maintain an equine as a riding partner and/or companion animal in a humane manner.

Since 2010 we have saved over 150 equines. We remain in contact with all of our adopters of our horses to ensure all equines that have passed through our rescue remain safe. We believe saving is the easy part and ensuring a “happily ever after” is true rescue. We provide all our horses with a safety net and will take back ANY horse adopted through our organization that may require an alternative placement. Many of our saves came from owner surrenders in our state of CT. We have been a resource to residents in our state who had to give up their equines due to financial restraints, untimely deaths and illness. We also work hand in hand with the CT Department of Agriculture and municipal animal controls, taking in equines from active investigations and seized equines due to abuse and neglect within the state.

Besides playing an active role in helping the states most at risk equines, we also actively educate the public on proper equine care and management. We are currently working with high school career training programs and act as a supervisor for college internship programs. We provide hands on experience and skills.

In 2017 we took particular interest in helping our American wild horses who live on our public lands. We created a “Wild Side” and were the first CT rescue who was saving Americas wild horses directly off of our public lands and those in danger at livestock auctions. We have established a wonderful relationship with the United States Forest Services, particularly the Alturas, CA office. We are currently one of their non-profit partners and they contact us if they need assistance with placing horses that might be difficult to adopt or with horses who have been adopted and failed their compliance check. This partnership is allowing the United States Forest Services to give a second chance to horses with traumas and disabilities who would otherwise be euthanized. We have taken in a mustang with a severely broken nose with bone showing along with a torn labia and lameness from the 2022 Devil’s Garden round up, and a mustang missing part of its nose and mouth from the 2021 Devil’s Garden round up. We have also taken in mustangs with blindness, tendon issues, hoof founder, and other injuries. It is our hopes to continue to assist these living legends by providing them the proper education to live healthy, domesticated lives or to live out their life in sanctuary which we are working hard on obtaining. Many of our mustangs have been adopted into great private homes and many are serving as breed ambassadors. Some have continued in great rolls teaching youth at the NYC Riding Academy, veterans at Healing Hoofbeats, LLC in CT, and psychotherapy clients at Soul Friends in CT, and Strides of Hope LLC in CT.

We are a top-rated nonprofit on Great Nonprofits and have a Platinum seal of transparency with GuideStar.

In 2021 we started an equine assisted psychotherapy component. We are currently partnering with Empowered with Equines LLC, and Hela Wellness Collective. Our equines are providing the healing benefits of the human-animal bond through therapy with at-risk children.