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Update on a weedy situation

September 4, 2019

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A domestic horse who lost it’s rider was stuck in the giant reeds along the Salt River, at Phon D Sutton just now. Thanks to MCSO lake patrol and the Mesa Fire department the horse has been rescued and both horse and rider are reported to be ok!

Great job everyone!!

SRWHMG.

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Nature can be cruel, but also has its reasons. Monday, 14, Sep
Awful! Another wild horse in a cattleguard! Saturday, 12, Sep
A moment of silence in remembrance of 9-11 … Friday, 11, Sep

Special guest:
On Friday night we picked up a horse that was abandoned by someone in the Phon D parking lot in the TNF. She is a broodmare who recently had a foal taken off of her, or perhaps the foal died. She is emaciated to the bone, has hard rock edema in her udders and milk veins, and cellulitis in her hind legs. She also appears to have some tumorous growths.

We don’t know how much time she may have on this earth, but our wonderful volunteer caretakers will show her the kindness she always deserved and the love she may not have ever had.

They are massaging her udders and milk veins, with warm compresses to try to break it up, gently holding her, talking with her and letting her know she is beautiful and she is loved.

Her eyes are soft and she loves every bit of the attention. She is no longer in pain because of a timed regiment of pain meds, antibiotics, gastroguard and a careful refeeding diet. ( because you can't just put a whole bunch of feed in front of an emaciated horse. )

Horses are such kind and innocent animals, often so very used, misunderstood and abused by humans. For her to become this emaciated, it took a long time of neglect. Whatever caused a human to do this to this sweet mare, it makes us udderly sad. (Pun intended.)

If her edema and cellulitis does not resolve by next week, we will do a biopsy to see if it is cancerous. We plan on finding her, plus our other stray livestock rescues (who are all fixed up) a loving home.

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I am so angry that this sweet girl was allowed to be in this condition and just dumped like trash at the river. She will now live out the rest of her life knowing kindness and love thanks to you. <3

Thank you so much for helping her and giving her a loving home. It is sad she was so neglected! People can be so cruel. Hope they will be found. Prayers for this sweetie.

I am so sad that she is in this horrible condition, but I’m so grateful that the kind and loving volunteers of the SRWHMG are there to take care of her. I pray she can recover and live a happy life with her new family at the Rescue Thank you for the update. 🙏🏻♥️

Our 28 year old quarter horse who is loved and adored and pampered , has suddenly lost 300 pounds and looks emaciated and like he is starved. So far, vet tests have shown nothing wrong. We will continue to pamper him. Cannot imagine dumping him somewhere. 💔

thanks for you wonderful care - I really hate it when people do this - should be arrested and sent to jail

Always rising to the occasion SRWHMG❤️This is so heartbreaking to see. Beyond my comprehension how a human can let this happen. Thank you for giving her the best days of her life💞

Thank you, SRWHMG, for giving her the love and compassion she needs.❤

Poor baby 😢 thank you for giving her the best care and managing her pain!

Heartbreaking. Thank you for loving and caring for her. ❤️😥

My birthday is this Saturday, May I dedicate my birthday fundraiser to this sweet girl?

Thank you for all you do

It’s beyond me how people continually throw away animals! Especially leaving one who is obviously in pain and starving. Thank you for finding her and taking care of her until she can find a loving home. 🙏🏼💞

Thank you very much. Humans not enough of them can be called that. So glad. Hope she will improve and go to gentle loving home. Prayers sent. 😍♥️♥️😍♥️

Oh Lord. Thank you for helping. She must have been in terrible pain.

Thank you and it looks like she is in the best care she can get at this time... Thank you SRWHM Caretakers for all you do.... ❤️🐎

You guys are the best! Thank you to all of the volunteers who are taking care of her. God bless you all ❤️❤️❤️

Love that the Salt River volunteers will take this one and help out a defenseless animal. Hate that someone would mistreat this horse and the just through her away. If they do this to an animal, they are like this in all aspects of their lives. Thank you to the SRWHMG💜🐴

Thank you all for helping her and the update. Thankfully, as horrible as this is, someone picked the perfect spot to dump her where she would find life-saving help vs a desolate area with no resources. 🙂

So sad. I pray she makes it and can live a longer healthy happy life

Heartbreaking!! Praying she can recover and thankful knowing whatever time she has let she is being taken care of and is loved!

Heartbreaking. Im so thankful for you and all your volunteers. If you need a foster home until she is better and can find a permanent home i am available.

Poor baby. I will never understand how some humans can be so cruel.

The care and love you are all showing this mare is appreciated by her, you can be sure 😘

Bless you for helping and loving this lovely animal.

Thank you SRWHMG warriors for rescuing her and giving her so much care and love. You’re just amazing! Praying for the best outcome for this precious soul. 💕🐴💕

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Sad news:
Flicka in Mick's band had her foal yesterday Sept 20th in the morning. (from the band that we were not able to dart)

We checked on the little colt like we always do and monitored the mare and foal until he had nursed several times, then we left the band to have some peace and quiet.

Unfortunately later in the afternoon the foal was laying in the sun and looked lifeless. Since he was clearly overheating, our volunteers picked him up and cooled him off in the river (that he was not far from), and we even made him a bowl of milk replacer to attempt to get him to drink. He did perk up a bit from cooling off so that he could attempt to nurse from mom, who was watching and seemed to understand we were helping.

Flicka was patient in letting him try and try, and we watched with hope, as he got very close, but never succeeded again. We also could not get him to drink the milk replacer.

We then had a vet come to us in the field who assessed him and gave him some hydration, which we hoped would give him enough strenght to try again to nurse from mom in the field. (Our goal is foremost to keep them wild and free and we do not take foals from mothers just to take them to the vet.)

But then the band stallion Mick, made Flicka leave the foal. That may seem harsh, but we see it all the time when it takes too long for a foal to come along with the band. ( It is the stallions job to make sure the mare survives.)

We then took the foal to the vet (with authorization) , where he got everything he would need to survive, plasma (which saved Snow) a feeding tube, etc.

However, unfortunately he did not make it. We are very sorry for the bad news.
Our volunteers as well as veteranarians tried very hard. Thank you Rick, Rosa and Lisa!

Because he was on this earth for only a day, his name is Dio. Since his body did not have any harmful substances in it, we brought him back to the forest where he can go back to the earth.

Sadly they cannot all survive, that's just not what nature intends. The first two weeks of a foals life hold lots of risk. That doesn't take away that it is a sad thing and that anyone has a right to grieve over this little life that was only in this world for a day.

Run forever free little Dio.
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What a terrible loss. Thank you for giving Dio the best chance possible. Run free along the river on the other side sweet boy. ♥️

Light and Love to sweet little Dio. It's so sad when babies die. Thank you SRWHMG for always being there to support the herd in good times and in bad. Thank you for staying with baby Dio when he was first born so he was safe from stallions and other herds. Thank you for rushing him to the vet when it was approved. And thank you for giving him back to the earth continuing the Circle of Life. xooxo

We all know everything possible was done to save him. Run free little guy. Thanking you All again for all you do for these wonderful horses.

So because he was left in the hot sun as the stallion didn't want to wait for him to rest and recover a bit? I feel sorry for this Mom😭I know it happens but it still makes me sad. Bless his little heart🙏Thank you for all your efforts

So heartbreaking, I know you all did what you could do. I am glad he did not die in the hot sun. Fly free Dio. You are free and running at the bridge. Peace to mom who probably just as sad as us.

How sad, yet sometimes nature's course is for the best & happens for a reason. Thank You for the update & for all your hard working efforts SRWHMG volunteers & the Vet's Office as well.

You did what you could but Mother Nature had other plans Sadly tho we do not understand, she has her reasons Again thank you thank you for all you do

Very sad! Thank you for giving him every chance available to survive. RIP Dio run wild and free forever 💔

Run free little one! You are now running with many awesome horses!

There are so many tears left at the river 😢 however every tear seems to be fertilizer for more joyful moments than sad. Onward dear ones and volunteers!

Precious babe Dio, you are free to run in heaven. Poor Mama so sad 💔 Nature will have it’s way merciful or not, the heartache is the same 😢 As always your efforts are recognized and deeply appreciated SRWHMG. 🤗♥️

So so thankful you guys were there and he didn't have to suffer very long alone. Thank you for trying....

Tears but understanding...thank you for your wonderful efforts which you always give with thoughtful care.

Sometimes day one is all they have. Rest easy, little Dio. We will watch over your mama.

As the sun rises over the river this morning, may it light the way for our little Dio ❤️

I am grateful for the work you are doing with these horses. I lived in the area 25 years ago, kept a horse on the reservation and rode among an earlier generation of the bands that you are now managing. The horses often grew thin, and we were always excited to see new foals but knew that the environment was unforgiving. I am sure many never made it. But your work allows this generation of these tough animals to survive and thrive. Thank you.

Thank you so much for trying to give little Dio a chance and not leaving him in the hot sun. It hurts when you do everything you can but nature is nature. You are an amazing and caring group for the horses. So sad for Flicka who will mourn for him. Stay strong. Dio has crossed the 🌈 bridge and is now running wild and free. I just feel so sad about this. Never stop what you are doing for these amazing 🐎. 💔

Thank you so very much for all you did in your efforts to save Dio; and for returning him to the earth. Very heartbreaking for Flicka, and I hope the other mares lend her strength. While it’s devastating from a human view, band stallion Mick was taking care of Flicka’s survival with the band. Thank you again for your kindness and strength ❤️

RIP Little Dio. Praying for mom. Thank you all who volunteer. I was out there with a band yesterday and it just grounds me so much. We are truly blessed to have them so close but they do need your watchful eyes.

Thank you for doing everything possible while also respecting the importance of wild nature. This is truly humane management. Rest In Peace Dio. 😢❤️

Thanks for doing all you could for this little one. Sorry he didn’t make it😢 also thanks for keeping us updated. I’m sure it’s stressful for your team and you still find the time to update us. ❤️

I am definitely moved by this and am crying, it's just so sad,,nature can be cruel,but nature knows,all we can do is try and assist,but sometimes there are just things that are out of our control. A huge hug and thank you to all of you volunteers for trying to help Dio,and giving him comfort,,,,I am sure Dio crossed the Rainbow bridge 🌈to join the others,and is happy and rejoicing 🐎🐎♥️.

I am so sorry fot your loss of little Dio. 😢 Thank you for doing all you could for this little foal. I admire everyone in your organization for the resolve you have in keeping these beautiful animals wild and free. Bless you all!

Thank you for all your efforts to save Dio. It is difficult to understand nature at times and hard for me to know that the band’s stallion got the mare to leave her foal, but knowing that he needed to save the mare, makes it a little easier to accept what happened.

Thank you for putting him back to the earth. I always stop to pull dead animals off the road - find a little piece of earth and give them back to the wild. It is so disrespectful to leave them to get smushed into the asphalt. RIP little one ❤️

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Who dropped this couch off, Joey Tribiani from friends? Does not look out of place at all in the TNF. Should we keep it there? Maybe it's a pull out couch for overnight stays?
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I am already up set about the garbage that the floaters and river users leave all over the place less than 100 yards from their cars and dumpsters - why do people think the open land is their private dumping ground- this looks funny but it is no laughing matter - pick up your garbage people

The actual dump really wasn't that much further of a drive to dispose of it properly. So sad that some people can't appreciate the Beauty of The Tonto National Forest.

Dang, that might be a good tackroom couch for someone. Lol. You could post it on Facebook marketplace as “Free couch, just have to come pick it up. Sorry no deliveries”. Lol. People are dorks.

Put a 4 sale sign on it!

It's pretty lazy and Pathetic to dump furniture in the beautiful TNF .. Some people are so ignorant and have no clue.. so sad...

I saw it today! People have no respect

Haha! I saw it on my way to the river! I forgot to take a pic.

It is there for a scenic view..... disgusting....

Might blend in better is Sedona....red rocks and all...

I think it looks like it should be there - maybe think of a name for it? On the other hand, returning it to its owner - perhaps with the addition of more bird poop, seems like an outstanding idea.

I know, it’s a very bad thing to dump anything, but it does remind me of that very adorable cow! Hurricane winds blew a mattress into cow pasture, and the cow loved it and always laid on it! ☺️

So one got dumped on a main road here and it sat there for weeks..... then came the Facebook page about "the palm bay couch" (page is still active) it was hilarious and turned into this huge crazy funny thing!! They even found a "home" for the abandoned couch!! It was pretty funny!

The same ass-in-action in The Superstition Wilderness.

Dig under the cushions maybe find an address on some old mail then deliver it back to its owner

I do upholstery and I think that is a beautiful couch. With the one big cushion and the nicely shaped arms. It would be so nice if it was recovered in a different color. Looks like one of those long couches that a very tall person could lay on with lots of room.

I think you should keep it right there and use it as a way to draw attention ☺️

This dumping thing and leaving garbage behind is really becoming an issue. I now take a garbage bag with me on my walks. Water bottles, pop cans, masks, Kleenex, and dog poop everywhere.

Needed cactus pillows! That helps!

I want to see this on the news. Maybe someone saw the person doing this but better yet get a plug for SRWH and the horses.

Illegal dumping. I would have donated the couch to charity; not to the wild life. 🤦‍♀️

I bottle raised a rejected foal... He loved to nap on the couch! Since the poor wild horses don't have one of their own.... Somebody thought they needed it; 😜

Remember in June 2015 when someone left their furniture at Butcher Jones? 😉

maybe the horses ordered it from amazon

Put it over the cattle guard they keep getting caught in!

They decided the volunteers that work the needed to be a little more comfortable than sitting in their cars

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