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Bad knees, what can we do for Lucy?
10 October 2024
Lucy arrived in 2018 with knee problems but was comfortable and moving well. Now, 6 years later, the osteoarthritis in her knees has progressed to a point that she can barely walk. There is a treatment but it is costly, can you help?
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Help Lucy, Our Resilient Mare, Get the Knee Treatment She Desperately Needs
Hi, I’m Lori with Spirit Keeper Animal Sanctuary, and I’d love to introduce you to Lucy, a sweet, affectionate mare who’s been part of our family since 2018. Lucy is estimated to be between 24 and 28 years old, and despite her strong spirit and loving personality, she struggles daily with severe knee pain from osteoarthritis.
(note that this video is cross-posted to Behavior Education - Lori Torrini)
When Lucy first arrived at our sanctuary, although not sound for riding, she could walk comfortably and enjoy life with her herd. However, over the years, her knees have worsened. After moving her into a small paddock with her elderly friend Red, Lucy managed well until recently. Red, suffering from her own leg issues, had to be let go, and now Lucy faces her own battle with extreme lameness.
If Lucy were a person, she’d be eligible for a knee replacement, but that isn’t an option for horses. However, there is hope. A treatment called polyacrylamide gel (PAAG) could give Lucy lasting relief from her knee pain. This injection has been a game changer for many horses, helping them return to a comfortable life. While we’re not aiming to cure Lucy’s lameness, our goal is to help her walk, get up and down with ease, and enjoy her golden years without pain.
The treatment comes with a high cost-$3,600 for both knees-and we need your help to raise the funds. Every dollar donated brings us one step closer to giving Lucy the relief she deserves. My husband had gel injections for his own knee pain and has been pain-free ever since. We want to give Lucy that same chance.
Lucy has the potential to live another 10-15 years, and we want her to enjoy every moment. Please consider donating through the options below to help give Lucy the quality of life she deserves. Thank you for your generosity-Lucy would thank you if she could!
How to Donate:
PayPal Giving Fund: www.paypal.com/US/fundraiser/charity/1213006
Website: www.spiritkeeperanimalsanctuary.org/
Direct PayPal Donation: SpiritKeeperEquineSanctuary@gmail.com
Facebook: Visit our Facebook page SpiritkeeperEquine/ or the fundraiser on my personal page (Lori Torrini) and business page (Behavior Education)
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Відео

Aussie Mix for Adoption: “One”
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“One” is a 3 year old neutered male Australian Shepherd Mix looking for his perfect person. He is active, very smart and very affectionate with people. He is playful and gets along well with some other dogs but not all other dogs. He has gotten into two major fights with one of the other 7 dogs in his foster home and so they are being kept separated. He is used to being with a person who played...
Waylon Photo Essay - See Story in Description
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Waylon was a 28 year-old chestnut grade Quarter Horse gelding owned by an Air Force Academy cadet in June of 2014. Spirit Keeper Equine Sanctuary (SKES) was contacted by the cadet’s mother who was concerned that Waylon was too thin and did not believe her son was able to take proper care of him. When SKES staff visited Waylon on June 11, 2014, to investigate his circumstances it was determined ...
Hay-Time: Learn Some Names
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Filmed on 4 May 2023 at Spirit Keeper Equine Sanctuary. When the horses are calmly enjoying their hay is a great time to get a good look at individual horses and learn some of their names. paypal.com/us/fundraiser/charity/1213006
Unrelenting Wind!
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March and April 2023 have been windy!
Sanctuary in the Afternoon
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Windy day but finally warm!
Nighttime Barn Sounds
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SpiritKeeperEquine.org Spirit Keeper Equine Sanctuary (also DBA Spirit Keeper Animal Sanctuary) cares for special needs and at-risk horses and other animals for life. Donations can be made via PayPal Giving www.paypal.com/us/fundraiser/charity/1213006 And we have an Amazon Wish List www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/3VU4QQTW6FQOF/ref=hz_ls_biz_ex?pldnSite=1
Nighttime Feeding 16 February 2023
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Spirit Keeper Equine Sanctuary (also DBA Spirit Keeper Animal Sanctuary) cares for special needs and at-risk horses and other animals for life. Donations can be made via PayPal Giving www.paypal.com/us/fundraiser/charity/1213006 And we have an Amazon Wish List www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/3VU4QQTW6FQOF/ref=hz_ls_biz_ex?pldnSite=1
Horse Update for those who Care.
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Horse Update for those who Care.
Wintery Wait
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This herd was waiting their turn to eta as we were feeding the group adjacent to them. In this video are: Copper, Wildfire, Hunter, Moondust, Solo, and Danny. www.SpiritKeeperEquine.org
One of our Oldest Residents: Sassy Lady 8 DEC 2022
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Sassy Lady was foaled on May 7, 1990. She is an Arabian mare who has been with sanctuary founder Lori Torrini since 1994. Sassy Lady may be the oldest sanctuary resident at this point but we aren't sure because some of the horses relinquished to us are of unknown ages. Brownie may be older than Sassy Lady or about the same age but his foaling date is not known. Our longest-lived horses was Rapt...
Join us for a Glimpse of Summer!
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July and August at the sanctuary have been hit and full of flies. Thanks for watching. spiritkeeperequine.org/
Love animals and want to help?
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We love our animals and work diligently to provide the best care and nutrition to optimize their welfare. We always need financial and feed donations as well as things like stall bedding, kitty litter, and feed buckets. We feed Purina Equine Senior, Purina Wellsolve L/S, Nutrena Safe Choice Senior, Special Care, and Maintenance, Triple Crown Timothy Cubes for horses with Equine Metabolic Diseas...
Ace and our intern: March 2022
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Ace suffers from equine metabolic syndrome and is on a special diet. His nutrition plan is low starch, low sugar, and includes soaked Timothy hay cubes specifically formulated for his condition. Jordan is a student from Pikes Peak Community College completing internships with his to earn her ZooKeeping degree. All of our working staff including interns complete the SDZGA Animal Welfare Professi...
Customized Care: Lucy and Buddy
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Horses at Spirit Keeper Equine Sanctuary 501c3 each receive customized care based on their individual needs. Horses in our sanctuary program have special needs, disabilities, or are here for lifetime medical maintenance. If you would like to support our sanctuary program consider donating via PayPal Giving or Facebook, donating feed/hay, or sending the horses Winnie’s Cookies or other treats. w...
#givingtuesday 2021
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#givingtuesday 2021
Jasper and Friends
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Jasper and Friends
Consent Behaviors and Cooperative Care Training
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Consent Behaviors and Cooperative Care Training
Unboxing Winnie’s Cookies!
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Unboxing Winnie’s Cookies!
Enrichment for Horses with Dietary or Space Restrictions
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Enrichment for Horses with Dietary or Space Restrictions
Jasper out of Quarantine!
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Jasper out of Quarantine!
New Resident: Jasper
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New Resident: Jasper
Raina, brightening up our winter!
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Raina, brightening up our winter!
Fun before the Storm
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Fun before the Storm
Semi-Protective Contact Haltering
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Semi-Protective Contact Haltering
Sassy Lady oral surgery #1
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Sassy Lady oral surgery #1
Dog Treat Delivery
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Dog Treat Delivery
Liberty Fun with Balinor and Babbie!
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Liberty Fun with Balinor and Babbie!
Mora, 26 years young!
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Mora, 26 years young!
Introductions
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Introductions

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @IOSALive
    @IOSALive 6 місяців тому

    Spirit Keeper Equine Sanctuary, You're amazing! Let's be friends and have fun together!

  • @baula338
    @baula338 8 місяців тому

    If enough people work with horses we can restructure our economy around cookies. Thank you for the excellent video!

  • @debrabish1494
    @debrabish1494 8 місяців тому

    I was feeling guilty for training my horses this way-I did it instinctively-very good!!!!

  • @stevegreat7193
    @stevegreat7193 Рік тому

    You have some gorgeous horse spirits there.

    • @spiritkeeperequinesanctuar6009
      @spiritkeeperequinesanctuar6009 Рік тому

      They you! Providing optimal nutrition, exercise, and overall care are important to us.

    • @stevegreat7193
      @stevegreat7193 Рік тому

      @@spiritkeeperequinesanctuar6009 they treat you as part of the herd. You are lucky and you deserve it, Cheers from England.

  • @caughtafaygo
    @caughtafaygo Рік тому

    I really love Emmy! Gorgeous 🥰

  • @onion6foot
    @onion6foot Рік тому

    I miss being connected with a barn.

  • @stevegreat7193
    @stevegreat7193 Рік тому

    Horses... Great spirits.

  • @LoriTorrini
    @LoriTorrini Рік тому

    Happy Birthday Jim!🎉❤

  • @meganmartin2037
    @meganmartin2037 Рік тому

    Love from Williston nd

  • @erika7674
    @erika7674 Рік тому

    But they're all lovely, of course.

  • @erika7674
    @erika7674 Рік тому

    What a beautiful Fjord pony!

  • @elizabethannegrey6285
    @elizabethannegrey6285 Рік тому

    Beautiful uplifting channel. Just subscribed.

  • @judylee3589
    @judylee3589 Рік тому

    Thank you so much for sharing these babies with us. I really enjoy watching this.

  • @angelajohn6618
    @angelajohn6618 Рік тому

    Love what you are doing!!!

  • @stevegreat7193
    @stevegreat7193 Рік тому

    Thanks for being kind to the horses.

  • @meripederson8379
    @meripederson8379 Рік тому

    Oliver is so beautiful 😍❤️

  • @nataliaprado2337
    @nataliaprado2337 Рік тому

    So glad they have a safe place with you.

  • @CriaAndKiddFW
    @CriaAndKiddFW Рік тому

    Another new subscriber here too! Beautiful horses and so glad your sanctuary accommodates special diets. I love the ponies and when the horses are all fluffy with their winter coats. Best wishes from Vermont!

  • @virtualselfie6899
    @virtualselfie6899 Рік тому

    ❣💯 Good news on the unremarkable blood results from the lab. Sassy is elderly and pain, just like in humans, flares up. Thank you for your pain-management protocols that keep her interested in eating and going off to see her friends.

  • @virtualselfie6899
    @virtualselfie6899 Рік тому

    ❣💯 Wonderful how you space the horses so they have separate bowls. You can see how much they appreciate the goodies. They eat with enjoyment and gusto. They are free. Wish I could grow a winter coat like your beautiful equines. Kudos to your animal sanctuary! My mom used to say all the time that we kids ate like horses; I realize now how much she enjoyed watching us scarf it down. She's gone now but I remember she'd wink when she said that. Then she'd keep piling our plates with more as we said, "Mom , you're a good cooker!" Your horses have such expressive eyes of their gratefulness. Keep warm, Spirit Keeper Equine Sanctuary!

  • @EagleSoul
    @EagleSoul Рік тому

    Hi there from South America Uruguay 🇺🇾me too just subscribed. Great stories 🐎🥰. Cheers!!!

  • @LoriTorrini
    @LoriTorrini Рік тому

    Beautiful.

  • @debrabish1494
    @debrabish1494 Рік тому

    yes!!!!! enjoyed !!!!!!Deb

  • @shortymcfox2251
    @shortymcfox2251 Рік тому

    Do you have an Amazon wish list so people could donate any supplies/treats? 😊

  • @cd3777
    @cd3777 Рік тому

    Thank you for helping horses 🐴

  • @debbieking3442
    @debbieking3442 Рік тому

    Another one here that just subscribed. So grateful for people like you to have a place where these beautiful horses are treated with kindness and love. Love 🇨🇦❤

  • @virtualselfie6899
    @virtualselfie6899 Рік тому

    ❣💯 Spirit Keeper Animal Sanctuary: Thank you, Carol and Don, for that great photography from Moondust to Jasper. Equines love running along fences. Jenna, Jasper was so relaxed, he was licking and chewing at the stall while you brushed. If he could talk in words, he'd say, "Thank you, Jenna, for that relaxing grooming session and fly spray so they stop biting me." Glad they all have long tails to swat them away; maybe he wants to stay with his friends in the paddock, so sweet for herd animals who love to hang out together. Your horses are simply beautiful, their coats, their animated spirit, joy for life. Good job!!!!! The name of your sanctuary is so fitting. Makes my day!

  • @virtualselfie6899
    @virtualselfie6899 Рік тому

    New to your channel and just subscribed. What a great documentary on your sanctuary home, now, to so many older horses, whose pain you manage by medication and special diets. Keep up the great TLC outreach!

  • @shelljw
    @shelljw Рік тому

    Absolutely beautiful of the owners who have relinquished them to you to be donating to their keep, their treats and checking up on them. There ought to be more of it. I LOVE the Fjord. I have been lucky enough to have leased two fjord Geldings years ago and just love the breed to bits. Not for the faint-hearted because they are strong minded if they put their brains and necks to something lol, (yes, this grown adult leading another horse while riding one of the fjords along the highways edge, looked like a kid on a thelwell pony trying to pull his head up from the grass while kicking him and trying to get forward movement - mum drove past and didnt know whether to stop and offer her totally non-horsey help or keep going and pretend she didnt know what was going on.... she did the latter lol) think late 90s, I was in my late 20s, this fjord was a Riding For The Disabled pony mainly. Our area had able-bodied riders or very knowledgable folk lease the horses for 4 days a week, then RDA used them 3 days at their facility...because I had had my previous Fjord, and knew how they worked, I was 'put on the list' of people to lease a horse by the coach and asked if I would take this one on because there was no one on the waiting list for one who could deal with him. On the ground in the RDA arena - a total gem.. Out in harness, or trail rides, Pony Club or shows - a little toad because he didnt have a leader and sidewalkers. Plus I think it was a ploy by my parents, my feed store lady and the coach to get me out of my bedroom that I hadnt left for about 6 months after my doc wrote my resignation letter and i had a total mental meltdown... My body was failing big time too at that point physically with a lot of issues but we just didnt have lables for things. But anyhow - Fjords are wonderful - their nature is just gorgeous, I do love that cheekiness so much, I love trimming their manes as they are meant to be in shows and my OCD wont let anything but perfection there happen with them, and the best bit - their bums are bigger than mine! Just - but they are!!

  • @Viktorijasummer
    @Viktorijasummer Рік тому

    Sooo amazing training, to value animal as an individual, and just giving a choice not like others pushes on animals. This is amazing job you do 🙏❤️❤️❤️💖

  • @Viktorijasummer
    @Viktorijasummer Рік тому

    People would donate on youtube and if set up donation choice. Or list from Amazon choice to purchase for horsies.

  • @LoriTorrini
    @LoriTorrini Рік тому

    It was a beautiful day!

  • @deborahpark6511
    @deborahpark6511 Рік тому

    P R O M O S M ❣️

  • @LoriTorrini
    @LoriTorrini Рік тому

    Sassy Lady's lab work was unremarkable, results came back today. She is back to not eating, just picking at hay which is unusual because she normally eats mash. It is possible the pain medication the vet gave her yesterday made her feel well enough to eat and drink so we will repeat the pain management this evening and see if that helps her feel like eating. Lori, 9 December 2022

  • @LoriTorrini
    @LoriTorrini 2 роки тому

    Beautiful but the flies are horrible, biting stable flies.

  • @loriw2661
    @loriw2661 2 роки тому

    This is beautiful! Mina has so much trust in you and wanted to be involved in her training. I love the way this type of training is also used in getting snakes to “shift” from one place to another. It proves that this method works.

    • @LoriTorrini
      @LoriTorrini 2 роки тому

      Yes! It works very well with all species. Mina is doing wonderfully.

  • @nataliaprado2337
    @nataliaprado2337 2 роки тому

    That's amazing, you all do great work!

  • @jamesbarrentine9238
    @jamesbarrentine9238 2 роки тому

    Nice video. Great overview of the feeding separation.

  • @LoriTorrini
    @LoriTorrini 2 роки тому

    Thank you to everyone who watches and who helps support the horses at Spirit Keeper Equine! There aren’t many of you and we appreciate you all!

  • @LoriTorrini
    @LoriTorrini 2 роки тому

    I love this. I have enjoyed working with Mina this way so much!

  • @LoriTorrini
    @LoriTorrini 2 роки тому

    This is one of my favorites.

  • @nataliaprado2337
    @nataliaprado2337 3 роки тому

    They are all so cute coming for their treats

  • @sarape812
    @sarape812 3 роки тому

    Very useful information.

  • @jamesbarrentine9238
    @jamesbarrentine9238 3 роки тому

    I really thought this was well done and hope it helps others to care for special needs horses.

  • @thorgirl87
    @thorgirl87 3 роки тому

    He’s so big and handsome! 🤎🖤🐎

  • @sandieklingoninthehouse9789
    @sandieklingoninthehouse9789 3 роки тому

    Beautiful Raina. Great to see you.

  • @sandieklingoninthehouse9789
    @sandieklingoninthehouse9789 3 роки тому

    Love this video. Brings back great memories. Music is perfect.

  • @sandieklingoninthehouse9789
    @sandieklingoninthehouse9789 4 роки тому

    Thank you Lori.

  • @jaj5371
    @jaj5371 4 роки тому

    They are my favorite.

  • @jamesbarrentine9238
    @jamesbarrentine9238 4 роки тому

    Horses love it when the treat lady comes over. Thanks Carol for bringing the horses Winnie’s cookies.