A complete guide to giving healthy and productive lives to deserving horses.

Every year hundreds of thousands of people adopt feral mustangs and other untrained horses as well as rescue previously abused animals. Give a Horse a Second Chance helps the reader decide which “gift horses” are within their ability to help and then describes how to go about giving the animal a happy, healthy, and useful environment and life.
The author, a longtime expert dealing with rescue horses, offers practical and sympathetic information on such subjects as:

• Why adopt a horse?: the pros and cons of adoption
• Adoption process: where to look and how to adopt
• Choosing a horse: breeds and types, conformation, age, temperament
• Homecoming: introducing the horse to its new home
• Veterinary considerations: including conformation and soundness issues
• Caring for an equine senior citizen: care and exercise for the older animal
• Training: replacing bad habits with good ones
• Selling or donating the horse: if you can no longer look after the animal