Virginia Horse Welfare Organizations

Objectives and Purposes: To promote the humane treatment of elder equine through education and awareness programs for the general public as well as the equine community, to provide information on care of elderly equine, assisting owners in properly maintaining older animals through retirement, to support municipal and court efforts to enforce humane treatment and animal control laws, to rescue and rehabilitate abused or neglected equine, to provide for the lifetime care of elderly equine, and to place eligible program equine in permanent adoptive homes.

Blue Horse Mukwa Equine Retirement and Rescue Center

Chase City, Va 23924
434-372-2389
email:bluehorsemukwa@yahoo.com

Dream Catcher Farm Horse Sanctuary
Rocky Mount, Virginia 24151
Email: home4them@horsesanctuary.com

Equine Rescue League

PO Box 4366
Leesburg, Virginia 20177

(540) 822-4577

Email: bubbasays2@aol.com

The Equine Rescue League (ERL) is a non-profit organization that supports the responsible use of working, sport, and pleasure horses, ponies, donkeys and mules. Our goals are to prevent the neglect or abuse of any equine, to offer educational programs to the community, and to provide shelter, rehabilitation and adoption for those animals in need of our services.

Free Spirit Equine Rescue Shelter

P.O. Box 4940

Midlothian, VA. 23112

(804) 598-8132
E-mail: Luvbarrelracn@aol.com

John Henry Tiffany Trust at Highroad Farm
Equine Retirement Sanctuary
PO Box 32
Oakpark, Virginia 22730

Lost Fantasy Stables and Animal Rescue
PO Box 42
Ceres, Virginia 24318
(276) 682-3729
Email: lostfantasystables@yahoo.com

Mission Statement: To educate the public on animal welfare issues, to promote spay and neuter programs, to offer interactive school programs, and to make life brighter for the animals in need.

Middleburg Humane Foundation
PO Box 1238
Middleburg, Virginia 20118
(540) 364-3272
(540) 364-3405 fax
Email: help@middleburghumane.com

ReRun Virginia Chapter
Evington, Virginia 24550
(434) 369-5433
Email: Pelinn@aol.com

Roanoke Valley Horse Rescue
Hardy, Virginia 24101
Email: info@rvhr.com
Phone: 540-797-1999

Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation

United States Equine Rescue League
PO Box 914
Culpeper, Virginia 22701
(703) 580-9199
(336) 720-9257 (NC)
Email: info@userl.org

USERL Richmond Region

USERL Northern Virginia Region

northernva@userl.org

White Bird Appaloosa Horse Rescue
Burkeville, VA 23922
434-767-2839
whitebirdapps@gmail.com

The White Bird Appaloosa Horse Rescue is a Virginia 501(c)3 non-profit corporation dedicated to the rescue and rehabilitation of abused, neglected and at-risk Appaloosa and other horses, especially those in urgent need. We provide shelter, care, medical and rehabilitation services to horses in need, and whenever possible, we place them in loving and permanent homes. Horses that cannot or should not be adopted are given permanent sanctuary so that they may live the remainder of their lives in safety and dignity.

Winifred Grace Equine Rescue & Retirement Organization
P.O. Box 67
Remington, VA 22734
540-771-4530
retiredhorses@att.net

Our MISSION is to provide affordable lifetime care for horses and to educate people about the plight and needs of retired, unwanted, and homeless horses.