Welcome to March From Zuma's Rescue Ranch

December 2014

Zuma's Rescue Ranch Newsletter

Our Sponsors

John G Duncan

Charitable Trust

Thank You

Spotlight Horses

C.G. formerly known as Diego

This is a Re-Rescue from the Colorado Feed Lot Group

C.G. was at the Centennial Auction and purchased by a group representing a well known kill buyer. The horse was misrepresented to the buyer as started and gentle. After the new family got the horse home, they learned that he was a far way from trained. In fact, he was largely un-handleable and very terrified of humans. After months here at Zuma's and multiple trainers/handlers gentling him, C.G. is nearly ready for a first mount. Follow his progress on social media #CG@Zuma's.

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Horses Ready for Adoption

#brush23 Singer

Singer

#brush 23, Singer is a 17 year old Quarab mare looking for a forever home with her best friend Chappy (below) Singer and Chappy are 1/2 brother and sister and have spent their entire life together. Singer is 14.2 hands mare with a lot of life left and wants to be your trail buddy, she will need to continue her tune up training for a little while after a long vacation in the pasture. Adoption fee $300.

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#brush23 Chappy

Chappy

#brush23 Chappy is a 17 year young Q.H gelding and 1/2 brother to Singer(above) these two want to be your next trail partners. Both have had a long vacation and are working on getting going again with the riders here at Zuma's. Schedule a visit to meet them and fall in love....

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Spotlight Kiddo

Kids of Summer Camp @Zuma's

Summer 2015 horse camps kids are figuring out their plans for this summers camp. Zuma's Camp kids breath fresh air into the days here with horses with all of the enthusiasm and inquisitive minds. Register your Kids into Zuma's Summer Camps before the 16 slots fill. That is right we only host 2 weeks of camp and only allow 8 kids each week.

Camp weeks are June 29th and July 13th

Camps run 9:00am-3:00pm and cost $495 per week

REGISTRATION

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Spot light Volunteers

Brittnee Woodward-Whitehead

Brittnee has helped Zuma's with some of the most challenging horses rescued buy moving them forward and placing them under saddle. Most recently Brittnee spend a day in Februarys evaluating the #brush23 horses and backing most of them for their first assessments. It was during the visits with the #brush23 that Brittnee also stepped in and help us get Hewey under saddle and move C.G. into being lead and having his hooves trimmed by Suzanne Kayser.

Brittnee specializes in restarting troubled horses through her company Old Glory Equestrians

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Spotlight Funder

Monica

Last Month our very loyal volunteer Monica ask us if we could use a 4-wheeler, we said without hesitation, of course!!! Boom, the next week Monica and her husband delivered a CanAm DS50 to the stables.

We NEED your support, Please Consider a Contribution to help us

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How To Help you Ask...

If you see a need and have the means to fill it here at Zuma's, we sure would love the assistance.

White PVC fence rails and posts: Available from Split Rail Fence on Santa Fe. Just call and place the order and let us know we will pick up the posts and or rails.

Horse Grain from Agape: Distributors are $14.00 per bag; we feed 40 a month. If interested, please contact AGAPE directly and purchase the grains and she will deliver to Zuma's.

Gift cards from Murdochs and place a order for a gift card in any denomination. Let us know you have purchased a gift card and we will pick it up.

All donations are FULLY TAX DEDUCTIBLE.

Z-VENTS

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Simply Love Horse Show March 21-22 @ Zuma's

See our Facebook page to register

April 12th is the very first of unique horse shows at Zuma's

Mr./Mrs. Equine Universe Pageant

April 12th 2015

Visit our Event Page for Details

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May 21st-24th is the third annual

Healing with Horse Festival

Click link to register

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ROTH modular Part III

will be happening July 27-31

Boomers Room will be booked, please enter restroom through Kitchen this week.Riding will happen at far west end of indoor- arena or outdoor arena.

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Happy Spring,

Zuma's has been busy this first quarter #brush23 horses Save 19 tribal foals saved in Oregon, and three events in April..... Hold on this is going to be a full and sadly late news letter.

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2015 ASPCA Help A Horse Day

Zuma's Rescue Ranch is excited to participate in the ASPCA's Help A Horse Day on April 26, 2015. And we need YOU! From April 25 at 6pm through April 26 at 6pm, we'll be hosting 24 hours of natural horsemanship, during which event participants provide TLC for each of our 48 rescue horses. Sign up by emailing [email protected] or simply by creating your own fundraising page by clicking here.

We are competing with other organizations across the nation for a $10,000 grant. Thank you for helping us reach our goal!

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ZEAL

Zeal has grown again

Zuma's has been invited to propose services for The Tennyson Children's Home in Denver, Elise and Jodi are working on developing programs for these wonder children. In order to fulfill this and so many other requests Zuma's is hiring a full time LCSW or LPC. I you are interested in the position check in with Elise by sending her a resume and your availability.

please email Elise Neal our program director for program details

Ongoing ZEAL programs:

Fillies Group-Contact Elise Neal for registration

Sunday afternoon teen group for girls focuses on socialization and coping skills.

Co-Ed Group-Contact Elise Neal for registration

Group for boys ages 9-13 on Fridays after-school and Sunday afternoons. This group is designed to help with the development of both coping and social skills.

Family Programs- Adam Clark for registration

This is a program designed to help families identify pitfalls in communications .Adam can also assist with issues surrounding divorce, adoption, depression, anger, job loss and all situations that impact families.

Adult Programs-

Barb Lane - LCSW, Jungian Analyst is accepting adult clients that are looking for a new way to work through life's difficult times.

Ask Elise for additional ZEAL group opportunities

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Referrals are the best compliment you can offer:

If you know of a school that may benefit from our children's programs, please send them our way for both after school and weekend programming.

SPONSOR HERE

Email elise

for information or call 303-346-7493

Guest Writers Corner

Horses Helping Children

See Zuma's on the TODAY show

If you would like to be a guest writer for Zuma's News Letter please email me your short story before

third week of each month

[email protected]

Zuma You

Why your horses is an equal

Joyful Horsemanship

by Rachel Steen

The above link is beliefs about

Horses as Partners

Shared here at Zuma You.

To register for lessons please visit our website and pre purchase you package, then contact your instructor to schedule

Beginner Instructor Jr. Horse Heroes Tutti Hendricks

Advance Instructor ZIRG/ZARG Katie Dixon

Horsemanship 101-102 Lauren Munger

Business Majors- Zuma's has internships available

Non-Profit Administration-Marketing-Data Base Management

Internship - career issues and concepts word cloud illustration. Word collage concept.

Internship - career issues and concepts word cloud illustration. Word collage concept.

Are you a business/marketing major looking for a fun way to gain experience and or credits? Zuma's is looking for someone to help with social media management, set up a data base of our volunteers, and help with grant writing. This is a great way to both learn new skills and give back to a non-profit at the same time. Why not intern with a non profit and make your efforts really mean something. Zuma's has a blog that is rarely updated ;-( .We could also be tweeting a whole lot more about what's trending and how it relates to horses, kids, mental health services.

This very newsletter could really use some help from a marketing whiz-kid and our Facebook pages need a real wordsmith to grab attending and get the exposure our organization needs.

If you can help us out 1-2 hours a week by writing for our Blog, Tweeting and Facebooking, please join our team as an intern.

The volunteer management over here is a hot, hot mess and really needs a database manager to create a user friendly database management system to make the most our our volunteers. This is a long project that we are desperate for help with. If you can help us out email Jodi for details.

REHABILITATION CORNER

Eve's Surgery UPDATE

Well it is rarely just one emergency here with the horses at Zuma's. Below is a photo of Eve getting her OCD surgery which went very well. Eve will have a long stall rest (6-weeks) to recover and then will need to be

But as I said, things rarely come in ones when it comes those emergencies. Just off the heels of Missy in the hospital for 2 days with ulcers, colic and anemia costing $2900 Eves' surgery ran about $1500 and the third strike was Tinsel needing a tooth surgically removed which will cost about $350 when all is said and done... Tinsel is on a wet diet to allow her mouth time to heal and will require a soft diet going forward to eliminate hay packing in the hole left in her molars.

Donate

to Eve and Tinsel Vet Bills

Zuma's Rescue Ranch is here to rescue, rehabilitate and restore lives of both humans and animals. Thank you for your continued support of our efforts.

Peace and Love from,

Jodi, Paul

& the team;

Katie, Barb, Elise, Adam, Abby, Tutti, Zach,Bryson, Carlos, Suzanne, and the horses, chickens, ducks, goats, sheep, goose and of course Daisy Duke!