December 2024

Our email address is SpiritKeeperEquineSanctuary@gmail.com

Our website is SpiritKeeperAnimalSanctuary.org  

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PayPal Giving Fund is the best way to make donations, the horses and other animals get 100% of your donation and PayPal Giving Fund will generate a receipt for you. We have had a trying year, but being a sanctuary for special needs animals that is not unusual. Some years we have more veterinary expenses than others, and this was one of those years when we have had tremendous veterinary expenses. One of the horses, Mario spent 8 days hospitalized at the very end of last year and came home with a about a $9000 bill and a new monthly upkeep of around $600 per month just for this single horses. Sadly, we lost Ace, Thunder, Sueño, and Red which was not only tremendously difficult on us emotionally but financially. Each horse obviously received veterinary care up until the end and then burial or cremation. Lucy, an Arabian Cross who is thankfully still with us had to have a very expensive knee procedure which thankfully was covered by a stand alone fundraiser; however, she is still on a prescription anti-inflammatory ointment to augment her treatment which is running us $86 per week. All total our veterinary bills, which we are still paying off, were approximately $18,000 for horses plus another $24,000 for the other animals in our care during 2024. We are slowly paying down $42,000 in veterinary expenses from 2024. Our monthly feed and routine care costs have increased. Just as other things in the economy have gone up in price, animal supplies have followed suit. Our monthly routine costs are $9000 which mainly covers food and other consumables. 

 

We have to pay off pending expenses and make sure the animals that are here experience optimal wellbeing which means ensuring all of their needs are met. We cannot take on the additional burden of more until we get ahead of where we are at now. We will not be accepting admittance applications for horses, dogs, or cats in 2025. We will accept applications for small exotic pets on a case by case basis and we will still provide re-homing assistance, owner-education, and referral resources to anyone contacting us. We currently care for 40 horses, 15 dogs, 10 cats, 1 Leopard Gecko, and 16 special needs snakes.

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We successfully assisted with rehoming/adopting out of 2 snakes, 2 tarantulas, and 1 horse during 2024. These numbers should tell you there are far more animals people are trying to relinquish than there are animals that people are trying to adopt. We have routine requests from people for us to take there animals and very few requests from people wanting animals. 

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We have a long Amazon Wishlist that you can find here: https://a.co/eeXtoUK 

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We are also a Chewy approved charity, so if you prefer to donation supplies directly to us we have a Chewy's Wishlist you can find at this link: https://www.chewy.com/g/spirit-keeper-animal-sanctuary_b119374783 

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Feed and hay donations can be made through Big Joe's Feed Store in Yoder, Colorado (aka Yoder Feed)

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Thank you!

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