Helping Equines Regain Dignity, or HERD based in Tryon, North Carolina, is thankful for the success.
The nonprofit, founded by Heather Freeman and her husband Scott Homstead in 2016, relies on donations and grants to save horses from slaughter, restore them to health, and send them on to new beginnings. This year, with COVID, I thought we were going to have a very difficult time getting any funds raised or any horses adopted, but we ended up finding homes for 40 horses, Freeman said.
In the four years HERD has been in existence, the group has saved hundreds of horses bought at auction to be sent to slaughter for their meat in Mexico and Canada.