Our Mission Statement

Snowy River Animal Rescue – Mission Statement

Snowy River Animal Rescue is a family run rescue dedicated to improving the lives of unwanted, neglected, and abused animals through education of the public, rehabilitation, and re-homing. We also offer lifetime sanctuary for many elderly or disabled animals.

For The Love Of Animals

Snowy River Animal Rescue specializes in critical care cases, taking in “the worst of the worst,” the animals that other rescues often give up on. However, not only do they take them in, but also they heal them and offer them a quality of life that many domestic horses can only wish for. The first picture is a Navajo baby horse (Featured Image). Its mother was used as bucking stock while heavily pregnant and very skinny. She came from another rescue that could not handle wild horses.

A Standardbred named Sally. She was super skinny, wormy, and had been abandoned when she came to Snowy River. She has now lived there for about 6 months and is doing well.

Letter to Claire with NAVS

Aztec, who is 31 years old. He had a badly infected cancerous eye and was skinny. His eye was removed and he received full treatment for the cancer. Now he has a job as a roping horse for kids. He loves his job.

Letter to Claire with NAVS

Meet Jinx. He fell through the bottom of a trailer and was dragged by it when he was just 4 days old. The vet gave him an almost zero percent chance of survival, yet survive he did. He is now a 1-year-old gelding that is accident prone; his legs are scared but he is sound and strong.

Letter to Claire with NAVS

Epona, a young filly who got a bad staph infection and was given a 5% chance of survival by the vet. She is doing well now. In the first picture she is getting ready for the Christmas parade with her pet goat. In the second picture, she is posing for the camera in her Christmas antlers. She is a happy baby.

Letter to Claire with NAVS

Abandoned in Colorado Mountains

There is another story that needs to be told, but I have no picture to attach. It is Livingston’s story. Livingston was abandoned by an outfitter in the snowy Colorado Mountains. Since Kristina does search and rescue for horses, she took a crew and went up into the mountains to rescue him. They found him with his face frozen into the snow. His body temperature was 85 degrees. They chisled him out of the snow, strapped him onto a flatbed trailer, and drove him 50 miles down a gravel road and then another 5 to 6 hours so Snowy River.

Livingston had frostbite so badly that the vet removed his lips and his ears. He was in need of heat, and his hooves were sloughing off, so they used an engine wench to hang him from the ceiling of their mobile home tack room. Generators kept the room toasty warm. Livingston hung around in the trailer for about 2 months until his hooves grew back. Kristina and her crew would go in and sit on the couch and watch movies with him to keep him company. His eyelids don’t work so well, so Livingston has to wear a fly mask year round, and when he greets people he looks a bit like he’s wearing a Halloween costume with no lips or ears, but he’s a happy and healthy resident at Snowy River.