Report

Horse Placement Project

Five core members of the project team are processing some 30 leads for possible adoption or foster care of neglected or abused horses. This means that the potential applicant has been asked to send back a written application with references, submit to a screening interview and permit a site visit. All applicants are subject to the standards instituted by the NJ SSPCA that has final approval of adoptive and foster homes.

Our goal is to pull together resources for horses in distressed situations. Those resources would include a sizable list of approved homes, follow up education, foster care for horse in need to temporary placement, post-placement support for new owners.  

Thus far, Six applications have been put forward to the SPCA for approval, five more are near completion, 14 are being screened, several more who indicated interest over the last year, have not responded to our invitation for apply formally.

Once approved by the SPCA, applicants are placed on a master list sit to be called upon in case the SPCA confiscates a horse.

The Horse Placement Project is not involved in investigating neglect or abuse complaints. We don’t gather information to substantiate complaints, or evidence to defend a horse owner against a complaint. Horses become available for adoption after a judge reviews the evidence presented by the SPCA and rules formally for confiscation. The project has nothing to do with that process, so horses unknown to us may need placement on very short notice.

We need volunteers to make phone calls, recruit applicants and foster care facilities and, eventually, to mentor new owners who might need advice.

Anyone who knows of a potential adopter, especially someone who has tried to volunteer but has had not response, please get in touch with us. We WILL call them

Ann Dorsett 856-467-0870