horse rescue | Talking Animals https://talkinganimals.net A radio show about animals & animal issues Wed, 01 Nov 2023 16:59:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/talkinganimals.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/cropped-talking-animals-favicon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 horse rescue | Talking Animals https://talkinganimals.net 32 32 142518242 Susan Hanus, executive director of Cat Depot https://talkinganimals.net/2023/07/susan-hanus-executive-director-of-cat-depot/ https://talkinganimals.net/2023/07/susan-hanus-executive-director-of-cat-depot/#respond Wed, 12 Jul 2023 04:00:29 +0000 https://talkinganimals.net/?p=10212 Susan Hanus–executive director of Cat Depot, a unique feline-only shelter in Sarasota—recalls when she first became a cat person. Hanus has remained staunchly feline-friendly ever since, though, she explains, she stopped living with them when it turned out one of her kids is allergic to cats. Hanus outlines some of the traits that help make […]

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]]> https://talkinganimals.net/2023/07/susan-hanus-executive-director-of-cat-depot/feed/ 0 10212 Melanie Sue Bowles, founder-director of Proud Spirit Horse Sanctuary https://talkinganimals.net/2021/08/melanie-sue-bowles-founder-director-of-proud-spirit-horse-sanctuary-3/ https://talkinganimals.net/2021/08/melanie-sue-bowles-founder-director-of-proud-spirit-horse-sanctuary-3/#respond Wed, 04 Aug 2021 04:00:39 +0000 https://talkinganimals.net/?p=8889 Melanie Sue Bowles—founder and director of Proud Spirit Horse Sanctuary, who alongside her husband, Jim, has shepherded the sanctuary through nearly 30 years of challenges, changes, and relocations, in service of rescuing horses and providing them refuge—recalls helping her very first horse, when they were decidedly not horse people. Although she didn’t grow up riding, […]

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]]> https://talkinganimals.net/2021/08/melanie-sue-bowles-founder-director-of-proud-spirit-horse-sanctuary-3/feed/ 0 8889 Melanie Sue Bowles, Founder-Director of Proud Spirit Horse Sanctuary https://talkinganimals.net/2015/11/melanie-sue-bowles-founder-director-of-proud-spirit-horse-sanctuary-2/ https://talkinganimals.net/2015/11/melanie-sue-bowles-founder-director-of-proud-spirit-horse-sanctuary-2/#comments Wed, 25 Nov 2015 05:00:52 +0000 https://talkinganimals.net/?p=5039 Melanie Sue Bowles— founder-director of Proud Spirit Horse Sanctuary and the author of three books—provides a brief overview of the work she’s done at the sanctuary for nearly 25 years, as a prelude for discussing a momentous Facebook she had recently written. That lengthy post lamented the ugly frustrations of fundraising that Bowles has experienced over […]

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]]> https://talkinganimals.net/2015/11/melanie-sue-bowles-founder-director-of-proud-spirit-horse-sanctuary-2/feed/ 1 5039 Glenda Smith, founder of Equestrian Inc. Horse Rescue https://talkinganimals.net/2014/09/glenda-smith-founder-of-equestrian-inc-horse-rescue/ https://talkinganimals.net/2014/09/glenda-smith-founder-of-equestrian-inc-horse-rescue/#respond Wed, 24 Sep 2014 04:00:58 +0000 https://talkinganimals.net/?p=4239 Glenda Smith—founder and president of Equestrian Inc. Horse Rescue—discusses becoming besotted with horses as a little girl, starting to ride at age five. She recalls how, as an adult, she underwrote her horse habit—which soon became her horse rescue habit—by working as tennis professional. (She had attended USF on a tennis scholarship.) Smith explains how […]

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