Horses
Amber | Cinder | Doc | Dreamer | Duke | Hannah | Mama Tuki | Margarita | Mrs | Nick | Princess | Rosa | Vashti
Dreamer was rescued from the feed lot. Slaughtering horses for meat is illegal in the US. What many people don't realize is that it is not illegal to ship a horse to Canada or Mexico to have it slaughtered for meat.
If someone has a horse that they no longer want or is no longer useful to them they can sell the horse to a feed lot. The purpose of a feed lot is to fatten animals up before they are slaughtered. The animals are well fed but that is about the only care they get. If an animal is sick they are not given veterinary care, it would cost the people at the feed lot too much. A horse will only get care if it is injured to the point that it can't walk. This is because it is illegal to send a horse to slaughter if it is blind or can't walk onto the truck itself.
Dreamer never got that fat so we were able to rescue him instead of having sent off to slaughter.