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Just a Few of Our Slaughter-
Bound Rescues & Others
After Shilo's Inn Founder & Executive Director Laura Moretti learned about horse-slaughter and horse-tripping on the Los Angeles Evening News, she rescued Shilo — and dozens of others in the process — from a gruelling ride in a transport truck to a Texas slaughterhouse and a cruel death once inside.
Many friends were made along the way — including humans (trainers, veterinarians, journalists, celebrities, and everyday horse people) — and the horses who escaped the meat-grinder went on to loving homes and permanent sanctuaries.
We have hundreds of pictures of the horses who were pulled from the brink of death, but only a few are shown here. In coming months, we'll add more of their faces to this lineup, but in the interim, please meet Tower, Desiree, Steele, and Lady Moonlighter. Like Shilo, they, too, are Ambassadors for their kind.
Click on the smaller images below to see larger ones.
Tower, a 17-hand-high TB (hence his name!)
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Desiree, a half-quarter, half-TB.
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Steele, a registered Arabian gelding.
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Moonlighter (with Kermit), a blind mare Kermit trained to ride the trails. She made the papers!
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Laura Moretti's first horse rescue took place in the late 1970s when she worked as an undercover agent for the New Jersey State SPCA. Posing as a buyer, she documented the abuse of horses at the then-Playboy Club Stables in upstate New Jersey, providing proof of starvation and riding cruelties before a state court, and culminating in a conviction and shutting down of the stables. Unfortunately, the only pictures available are of the abuse (none of the successes), so we present one here of two starved horses who were documented with oozing saddle sores and then forced to carry riders.
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