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Zuma’s Camps are a HUGE Success!
Hello:
I wanted to thank each and every one of you for providing my daughter Layla Archuleta, with a wonderful experience at Zuma Rescue Ranch. I was so impressed with the young ladies (Layla knows all their names) who operate the day camp and their dedication to the day campers and the horses. We are looking forward to attending the camp next summer and Layla would someday like to volunteer. Thank you so very much for your time and dedication.
Cynthia Alvarado
Zuma’s Camps are a HUGE Success!
Hello:
I wanted to thank each and every one of you for providing my daughter Layla Archuleta, with a wonderful experience at Zuma Rescue Ranch. I was so impressed with the young ladies (Layla knows all their names) who operate the day camp and their dedication to the day campers and the horses. We are looking forward to attending the camp next summer and Layla would someday like to volunteer. Thank you so very much for your time and dedication.
Cynthia Alvarado
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Blown Away
OK so it has been a while since I have written about something that happened at Zuma’s, but I think this one takes the cake.
December 31, 2010 I received a phone call from what I thought was a generous and selfless individual wanting to donate to our mission. We chatted for nearly 30 minutes on new years eve day about our common love of horses and children, we talked about the caller getting involved with Zuma’s on a volunteer basis and ended the call with a generous donation of $1,000.00. I thanked the caller for her contribution and assured her with no paid staff the funds would all go directly toward the mission of helping horses and children.
(Nearly three months had passed and Zuma’s has yet to see this family volunteer as they committed to over the phone that day.)
Zuma’s normal policy with donations is to mail our a thank you before ever entering a deposit slip, this ensures that our donors all are properly thanked for their generosity. Most donations come via postal delivery or face to face, thus receipts and thank yous have never been problematic. Well this donation was done over the phone, not our normal procedure hence no email address to automatically send a receipt and a thank you. In my mind giving should not be tied to recieving, in this case the donor was thanked and a charge slip serves as a receipt, no harm no foul, right? Well I have never been so wrong in my life.
Day to day operations at Zuma’s are quite hectic with the 41 resident equine therapy partners, and a plethera of kids to work with daily not to mention the back office work required to keep the doors open for the 90% volunteer operation…Well it is easy to become overwhelmed on any given day and honestly this is the case most days.
For this previously mentioned donor, there was a string attached to her donation, is seems the tax receipt was more important to her than the good her funds could do for the horse and children here at Zuma’s. You see, she emailed a request for a receipt which she was sent, for whatever reason she did not receive the email. So she placed a phone call insisting on a call back ASAP and was quite rude to the volunteer onthe other end of the phone here at Zuma’s. It was quite a hectic day that day at Zuma’s for it was Wednesday, the day we provide programing at little to no cost for our kiddos, Wednesdays are always crazy around here with the nearly non cost therapy for kids and the free parent support group and no staff. Whew I get tired just thinking about Wednesdays around here.
Anyway, I didn’t have time on that Wednesday to make the call back to this donor, so I emailed her another receipt in a rush and inadvertently sent her a receipt from a past donor. Knowing that this donor was more concerned about her tax deduction that the donation I suggested in my email that she not be rude to volunteers answering the phone at an understaffed and over worked non profit and offered her her donation back. Well she came back at me with more attitude and aggression demanding her funds be returned. I was saddened and shocked that a donor would actually take a donation back from non-profit and kind of forgot about the entire incident.
A few weeks past and I received an email demanding her money back, shocked again, I attempted to explain how things happened and offered another apology and requested she give us another chance. Her return email was gruff in nature and stating that she was angry because she didn’t feel appreciated because we had not sent the receipt.For any transaction on a credit card and your statement serves as receipt, our EIN number for tax donations is a matter of public record, so this donor had all she needed for a tax deduction. To this day I will never understand the rude nature of her demands for a receipt, to the point of taking back a donation.
This week she contacted her credit card company and demanded a refund be issued. Obviously this type of donor only was giving on Dec. 31st to GET a tax deduction, which she had received and for all we know used on her taxes and yet took the funds from our account.
Lesson learned, People will never case to amaze me in their ability to be…… I have no words for what type of person this is. Using the fact that the transaction was over the phone thus no paper trail or signature allowing her to take back that, that she gave and received tax credit for…. SAD mostly for her, I hope she can find happiness so she does not continue to spread the hate she currently spreads.
For me I guess I have to change the over the phone giving policy, sad that one bad seed taints the world for all ~
Three simple things you can do for the Wild Mustangs! Please
Obama Administration Accelerates Assault on Wild Horses
Mustangs saved at Zuma's
Three Simple Actions You Can Take To Help!
Largest Roundup Of Wild Horses In California’s History Underway
Act Today To Oppose Other Planned Roundups
On August 11, 2010 the Interior Department began the largest roundup of wild horses in California’s history. Nearly half of the 4,000 wild horses left in the state will be removed from their homes and families in the next few weeks. This devastating and unnecessary roundup began despite a lawsuit filed by In Defense of Animals (IDA) and others. We have a representative on the ground at the roundup and will provide an update on the IDA blog later this week.
Today we are asking you to take three actions to help wild horses. Congress and the Interior Department must continue to hear from you! Together we can change this broken system if we continue to fight the deeply-entrenched special interests which control the Interior Department’s management of our public lands and the wild horses who live there.
1. Speak Out Against The Zeroing Out Of All Wild Horses From The Winter Ridge Herd Area in Utah
Take action to oppose the removal of all horses at the Winter Ridge Herd Area in Utah. This is just the latest effort of the Interior Department to remove all wild horses from lands specifically designated for their usage – while allowing livestock grazing to continue on the same lands. Click here to submit comments:
2. Oppose Removal Of 321 Wild Horses From Piceance-East Douglas Herd Management Area In Colorado
Oppose the Interior Department’s plan to remove the majority of wild horses in Colorado’s Piceance-East Douglas Herd Management Area. The agency will only leave 135 horses on this 190,000-acre public land area, while allowing hundreds more livestock to graze the same public land! Click here to submit comments:
https://secure2.convio.net/ida/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1601
3. Summer Recess – Perfect Opportunity To Visit Your Senators And Representatives At Home Through September 12.
One of the best actions you can take to help wild horses and burros is to meet in-person with your Senators and Representative. Ask your members of Congress to stop the mismanagement of America’s wild horses and burros. Despite public opposition, the Interior Department continues the unsustainable practice of rounding up, removing and stockpiling wild horses in government holding facilities – this ill-conceived and unnecessary practice is bankrupting the American tax payer wasting tens of millions of tax dollars annually.
In the next eight weeks, the Interior Department plans to remove four-thousand wild horses, using helicopters to stampede them and removing them from their families and homes on public lands only to be stockpiled in government-holding facilities. Congress must step in to stop this.
Members of Congress are currently in their home districts on recess until September 12. This is a great opportunity to let your Senators and Representative know that you, their constituent, want them to take action to help America’s wild horses and to end horse slaughter.
Here’s what to do:
Call the district offices of your U.S. Representative and both U.S. Senators and:
1. Request a face-to-face meeting with both Senators and your Representative to discuss these issues (you may need to meet with one of their aides – try to meet with their chief of staff or lead aide on this issue);
2. Ask for specific dates of town hall meetings or open events that constituents can attend.
Find contact information for your elected officials click here. You’ll need to enter your zip code on that page to get your officials’ local contact info.
Learn more about the issues by reviewing briefing documents here.
Below are talking points for specifics on what to say to schedule your in-person meeting.
TALKING POINTS FOR MEETING WITH YOUR FEDERAL REPRESENTATIVES
1. Call the local offices to schedule a meeting.
Here’s a suggestion for what to say:
“Hello, I am a constituent of ____ and I would like to set up a meeting with him/her while he/she is home in our district to talk about wild horse protection issues. I’m also wondering if he/she has any town hall meetings coming up that I can let others know about.”
2. For your meeting, dress professionally, be friendly and polite. Here are some suggestions of what you can say to begin the meeting:
“Thank you for meeting with me. I am very concerned about our federal wild horse management program. Public opposition to the Interior Department’s massive wild horse roundups is growing. The roundups are unnecessary, inhumane and wasting tens of millions of tax dollars.
For the first time, we now warehouse more wild horses in government holding facilities (38,000+) than are left free on the range (less than 33,000). This stockpiling of horses costs taxpayers tens of millions of dollars annually. Even Interior Secretary Salazar acknowledges the program is unsustainable, yet BLM roundups continue with over 12,000 to be removed from the range this year alone. They have no solution to stop this broken cycle.
The problem is not overpopulation. Fewer than 33,000 horses live on 26 million acres of BLM-managed public land. The problem is inequitable distribution of resources within the small percentage of BLM lands that are designated as wild horse and burro areas. The majority of resources are allocated to privately-held livestock, not federally-protected wild horses.
The BLM has demonstrated repeatedly that it is not capable of reforming itself. It’s up to Congress to reform this broken federal program.”
3. Ask your Senators and Congresspersons to take the following actions:
1) Join the 56 House members who have called for a halt to roundups by sending a sign-on letter to Secretary Salazar.
2) Ensure Fiscal Year 2011 Appropriations language that:
* Suspends wild horse and burro roundups in all but verifiable emergency situations;
* Prohibits the use of any funds to euthanize healthy horses or sell horses directly or indirectly for slaughter;
* Authorizes a National Academy of Sciences reevaluation of Appropriate Management Levels including analysis of resource allocation for livestock and other commercial uses;
* Phases out long-term holding and shifts BLM resources toward managing horses on the range in a humane and minimally intrusive manner as Congress intended;
* Rejects request for $42.5 million government “preserve;”
* Funds public/private partnership solutions.
3) Co-sponsor the Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act (H.R. 503/S. 727) to ban horse slaughter.
Let’s Spread Hope not Fear!
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This pairing provides the children in need, safe and unconditional love of a therapy partner to assist in the healing a rocky road of past abuses suffered at the hands of humans,
By limiting the adult human element, Zuma’s kids have a one thousand pound therapy partner that they can lay their trust in and begin the long road to recovery.
That path got a bit easier today with the help of a caring citizen and her son.
Wilma Stevens, a 102 year old Kansas woman contributed some of her limited resources to help Zuma’s mission.Wilma knows first hand how therapeutic animals and life on the farm can be for everyone. Wilma was raised and lived much of her life around animals and knows the powerful healing powers these animals possess.
If you would like to help Zuma’s change lives of troubled kids you can make a one time
donation or, contribute to Zuma’s endowment fund. Please contact Zuma’s executive director, Jodi Messenich at 303-346-7493 for details.
Be part of the good news in America giving people hope for a brighter future!
Let’s demand the media report the good things happening like a 102 year old woman sharing her small nest egg with at risk youth in Colorado.
In today’s turbulent financial landscape let’s celebrate the good things going on in America and give people a chance to celebrate rather than fret.
Zuma’s teaches kids the powerful affect ones mind has over circumstances, life is not what happens rather how we respond to it! Let’s insist our media spread more good news about good people doing great things!
Thank you Wilma Stevens and your son Bob Ryerson!
Zuma’s is blessed and shares the blessings with children in need.
Be part of the good news in America giving people hope for a brighter future! Let’s demand the media report the good things happening like a 102 year old woman sharing her small nest egg with at risk youth in Colorado. In today’s turbulent financial landscape let’s celebrate the good things going on in America and give people a chance to celebrate rather than fret. Zuma’s teaches kids the powerful effect ones mind has over circumstances, life is not what happens rather how we respond to it! Let’s insist our media spread more good news about good people doing great things!
Thank you Wilma Stevens and your son Bob Ryerson! Zuma’s is blessed and shares the blessings with children in need.
Unique services provided for the welfare of foster children. We save horses from slaughter and pair them with children in need of alternative healing therapies providing Equine Assisted Experiential learning and Therapy, job training, and much needed love. Join a winner be part of the positive change for today’s at risk children.
Zuma’s Saves 6 Healthy Horses from a Reckless Colorado Breeder
LITTLETON – Each year, about 100,000 horses in the United States are sent to slaughterhouses in Canada and Mexico. That’s according to the Humane Society of the United States.
Jodi Messenich and her husband Paul are trying to save as many horses as they possibly can from suffering that fate.
“I hear about a lot of horses going to slaughter and I’d like to save them all,” Jodi said.
The Messenichs own a large ranch in Littleton. They have 45 horses.
“We rescued 90% of them,” Jodi said.
On Saturday, Jodi and her husband saved six more horses from the Centennial Livestock Auction in Fort Collins. A kill-buyer purchased the horses for about $150 a piece. The Messenichs had to pay the kill-buyer $600 for each horse to save them.
“I rescued the six, sent one to the hospital to be humanely euthanized and I have the other five here that we’ll train,” Jodi said.
The five horses that survived are obese. The person who owned them fattened them up so he or she could collect a large profit at the auction.
On average, a horse at an auction goes for about 15 to 30 cents a pound. A normal horse weighs about 1,000 pounds.
Kill-buyers purchase the horses so they can send them to slaughter-houses in Canada and Mexico, where they’re destroyed for meat.
On top of the $600 purchase price for each horse, the Messenichs say they’ll have to pay even more to get them back in shape.
“A year with these guys, it’s probably a $60,000 cost,” Jodi said.
Jodi spent her life working as a marketing director and her husband worked in the telecommunications business. They’re spending their retirement funds to save as many horses as they can.
Jodi named her ranch “Zuma’s Rescue Ranch” after the first horse she rescued. To learn more about her non-profit program, head to www.zumasrescueranch.com
Save Our Horses
Stop the slaughter of American horses
The Conyers-Burton Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act, H.R. 503 in the U.S. House of Representatives and S.B. 727 in the U.S. Senate, is still pending in Congress. It is time to pass this bill and stop the slaughter of American horses for human consumption.
Under this bill it would be illegal to “possess…, ship…, transport…, purchase.., sell… deliver…, or receive” in interstate or foreign commerce any horse “with the intent that it is to be slaughtered for human consumption”. It would also be illegal under this bill to trade in horse flesh or carcass for the purpose of human consumption.
Violators face fines and jail time up to 3 years. If, however, the violator has no prior convictions and is moving 4 or fewer horses or less than 2,000 lbs of horse flesh, the jail time is only a year.
Horse slaughter for human consumption is illegal in the U.S. at this time, but American horses are still shipped to Mexico, Canada or other countries for slaughter, and their meat is sold generally as a delicacy in some countries.
American horses are companions, pets, and some used in racing are even called “athletes”. Some participate in competitions or provide transportation or other services. But American horses are not raised for food. The slaughter pipeline, from the auctions where they are sold to kill buyers, during arduous transports to slaughter houses and while at the slaughter houses, is a terribly cruel ordeal for the horses. They suffer fear, panic, painful injuries left untreated, abuse and neglect. Many are slaughtered while still conscious. A recent video of the slaughter of a horse was deemed too graphic even for youtube. Yet, such cruelty is still legal?
For more information….. Also, go here for even more info…..
Horse slaughter is also a negative for communities: Counties and cities where they are located report the slaughter houses overrun wastewater treatment plants, dump waste and blood, clog sewers, and create a bad smell that won’t go away; horse slaughter means few jobs that are low paying in any event, poverty and substantial economic and financial loss for a community.
A number of states and communities rejected horse slaughter this year. (Go here for more information.) It’s time for Congress to do the same!
Go here to find out if your U.S. representative is a co-sponsor. Go here to find out if your U.S. senators are co-sponsors.
Denial~
Hugging a horse helps the healing process
Often when someone is blind to their culpability in a situation they begin placing blame on others. This is very common among members of our society with little to no self -esteem, these members of our society must protect their fragile egos at any cost. These people often had traumatic childhoods where they were not accepted by their peers causing them to have such low self-esteem. Frequently folks with low self-esteem make them selves appear on the outside strong, yet their actions tell the real story. The continual transfer of blame is a tell-tale sign of insecurity and inability to handle the truth.
Sadly people with low self-esteem continue on a path of blaming the world for their problems and accepting no part in their shortcomings, never allowing them to rise above circumstance an end this destructive behavior.The first step toward mending this distorted way of thinking is to first recognize the problem, sadly for most insecure members of society this doesn’t happen and a life time is spent searching for true happiness.
On some occasions however the kid at school that was picked on and short of friends identifies the insecurities that caused the low self-esteem and seeks proper psychiatric help. With proper guidance a person can recognize that one can not change others opinions,but one can control how on views those opinions. You know the saying opinions are like A holes, every one has one….. Learning to ignore the opinions of others and standing strong for yourself and your beliefs is what psychologist can help you do. Learning at an early age to stand up, speak the truth and be damned the opinions of others for most often opinions are based in half pictures, not taking the time to understand a situation and jumping to conclusions.
In the end you and you alone can decide your value of self and you alone can take responsibility for your behavior. Own it Man! Then you can begin fixing it.
This is exactly what we help at risk youth deal with at Zuma’s, for low self-esteem can make a very shallow person always seeking a scapegoat.
Donate or sponsor s child’s path to mental stability. $220 will put an at risk youth through one entire series of sessions designed to build self-esteem.
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