(5th October 2012)

Our association’s third birthday is around the corner: this the second of the five newsletters in where we tell you about our success and future projects, which are possible thanks to your support too.

In this first three years, we have checked dozens of abuse reports, took part in some sequestrations and submitted several petitions.

These are some of the animals, sequestrated due to mistreatments, we have received in our centre:

- From three sequestrations in the Pisa and Siena provinces, we received a total of five horses, three ponies, a donkey, a hinny and a cow: they had all abandoned to their fate on dilapidated grounds;
       
Domingo at the time of sequestration (photos 1 and 2 above) and today (photo 3)

- In May 2010 the entire breeding stock of a Standardbred farm was sequestrated in the Siena province (21 horses, 12 of them foals/yearlings). Some of them were given in adoption, while the others are still here with us;
- From a sequestration in Salerno – which followed a shocking reportage by “Striscia La Notizia”, we received four more horses and a pony.

Also, we have submitted several petitions for possible mistreatments: IE, the one in the Asti province, following which the people in charge of a professed animalist association have been charged and 12 equines have been saved and trusted to other people; or in Ronciglione, where the mare Tiffany died in a horrible way during one of the many, absurd palii; and then in Larino, where an ox fell during a palio and was dragged for several yards. Among our latest petition there is the one in Nuoro, where a horse and two donkeys had their tendons cut with an axe.

Every day we receive similar denounces of mistreatments, but we need fund to develop legal actions: this is another reason we need your help for...remember IHP is supported only by private citizens’ donations!

     
Giulia at the time of sequestration and today

In the next newsletters we’ll talk about the scientific work, about the investigations and our future projects.

In the meantime, take a look at the many ways you can help us: we are supported only by free donations, that’s why we ask for your indispensible help.

Every donation, no matter the amount, is always precious for us. Some examples?

- With 5 euros you provide for four days the drugs our pony Arturo – affected by a grave form of asthma — needs to survive;
- With 10 euros you contribute to buy two rolls of elastic bandage or two bags of “wafer” hay for our older horses;
- With 20 euros you pay for the fuel our tractor uses in six days;
- With 50 euros, you help us to buy a bale of hay or a box of antibiotics;
- With 100 euros you provide for about eight months the drugs our little Miranda – affected by Cushing’s disease—needs to survive ;
- With 500 euros you help us to buy vermifuge for about twenty horses.

You can also choose to distant adopt one of the horses we saved: click here to know them and read the adoption methods.

To help us and in the meantime give yourself a touch of elegance, why don’t you buy a piece of clothing “signed” by IHP? Click here to see them.

If instead you want to give us a special gift or have the chance to find stuff we need at very low prices, this is our “wish list”, some things we would find very useful but we can’t afford right now:

- wooden boards to enlarge the stable area and to build a shed;
- rubber pavement for the stables;
- one or more storage tanks for rain water;
- one hedge trimmer;
- two wheelbarrows;
- four mud tires for your jeep;
- two desk PC’s for our office;
- one 2-horse trailer to transport horses;
- one digger.


Related newletters:
Support IHP, we tell you why: 1-our mission
Support IHP, we tell you why: 3 – Scientific work
Support IHP, we tell you why: 4 – Voluntary work