The Unwanted Horse Coalition (UHC) announces the launch of an additional resources page on the UHC’s website. This new page, entitled Additional Resources, gives horse owners and horse care facilities a bank of informative websites they can utilize in many different situations when dealing with unwanted horses or poor financial situations.

The new resources page will help aid in the UHC’s mission in educating horse owners on owning responsibly. Sections with links to useful programs such as haybanks and feedbanks, vaccination, gelding and euthanasia clinics are included, as well as sites on equine welfare grants. These links will provide valuable information, which will prove beneficial to horse owners and horse care facilities and in turn, will help many horses in need. The new page can be found under the already existing resources section, under Additional Resources at the UHC website: www.unwantedhorsecoalition.org.

“With many horse owners and horse care facilities in difficult financial situations, the UHC found creating an additional resources page with links to important programs, clinics, and grant sites to be a top priority, “said Ericka Caslin, director of the UHC. “The UHC receives many daily calls and e-mails with questions about programs, grants, vaccinations clinics, and haybanks. We felt that compiling a list of sites and links with important information for people to use and pass along would be extremely advantageous.”

Additional Resources will be updated regularly with new sites as options become available. If you have a site you feel would be a significant addition to the new section, please e-mail it to Ericka Caslin, UHC Director, at [email protected]. For more information about the Unwanted Horse Coalition, its goals and its missions, please call 202-296-4031 or visit www.unwantedhorsecoalition.org .

The Unwanted Horse Coalition

The mission of the Unwanted Horse Coalition is to reduce the number of unwanted horses and improve their welfare through education and the efforts of organizations committed to the health, safety and responsible care and disposition of these horses. The UHC grew out of the Unwanted Horse Summit, which was organized by the American Association of Equine Practitioners and held in conjunction with the American Horse Council’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C., in April 2005. The summit was held to bring key stakeholders together to start a dialogue on the unwanted horse in America. Its purpose was to develop consensus on the most effective way to work together to address the issue. In June 2006, the UHC was folded into the AHC and now operates under its auspices.