Sheila's Story:
This mare was rounded up from Beaty Butte HMA in Oregon on November 15th, 2015. Sometime after being adopted from the BLM Shiela was supposed to be used as a summer camp horse for kids to ride, but she had other ideas! She began bucking, so the summer camp relinquished her to Nevada sanctuary, Bluefeather Horse Sanctuary & Misfit Mustangs, who then ran into financial struggles and dumped three BLM mustangs, Sheila, Geronimo, and Buttercup, along with an entire trailer full of other horses, with an obscure California kill pen destined for slaughter on August 12th, 2024.
This lot usually does not work with the public- they usually just ship all of their horses to Mexico without giving anyone the chance to bail them. Luckily, Auction Horses Rescue was able to convince them to let them post several of the horses at their lot on their page to see if homes could be found instead of shipping them straight to Mexico!
Soon after we started fundraising for their rescue, a dedicated advocate recognized the three of their photos from Bluefeather Horse Sanctuary & Misfit Mustangs page! Sure enough, there were many photos of all three horses on their page. It is thanks to this chance sequence of events that we learned that Bluefeather was still taking in donations for a brand new bigger property for their "sanctuary" all the while dumping their current sanctuary residents with an obscure slaughter pen!! If Auction Horses Rescue wouldn't have posted them, Bluefeather would have never been caught doing this atrocious act!
Sheila, Geronimo, and Buttercup were all bailed from the kill lot by an angel donor's contribution, then went to a local vet to get their coggins and health certificates in order to be able to travel home to Nirvana. They arrived home on August 27th, 2024!
Sheila is the most shy of this group of three, and only wants human interaction if you've got treats!! She doesn't really enjoy scratches or anything like that. Sheila is a prime example of what happens when these horses are forced through training to be handled and ridden before they are given the chance to warm up to humans and understand that humans are good and are not a threat to them!
