The Story Behind our Story.
“Spring Sarah” is a Thoroughbred chestnut mare born from a high-earning dam and a remarkable millionaire sire, who was purchased off the track by a prince in Saudi Arabia to stand at stud. When Wendy and Mike Ramos found this chestnut mare—this beautiful daughter who
they’ve renamed “Fallon”—she was skin-and-bones, receiving a “1” on the body condition scoring system used by equine professionals. Of course, it doesn’t take a professional in the horse industry to see that an animal has been exhausted in their physical presence, and that’s
exactly where their story, and Fallon’s new chapter, began.
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Wendy and Mike adopted Fallon in 2020 and had her hauled up from Arizona to Montana. They boarded her at a friend’s house in Saint Ignatius while “Fallon’s Farm” was dreamed into existence in Arlee. Without a polished background in raising or rehabilitating horses, they dived straight in and offered a safe place for lost souls like Fallon. Word of mouth caught like wildfire and messages and phone calls started rolling in. All of them sporting a common denominator: no
housing for the horse. Whether they are old and needing costly maintenance or young and homeless, there is no combination of circumstances too complex for a chance at a happy ending.
Fallon’s Farm is a 501(c)(3) recognized animal rescue operation. Our mission is to take in equines (and other animals, too!) that have been abandoned, mistreated, or are experiencing some degree of misfortune. There is permanency available here—the greatest gift that any animal could ever hope for, and live for.
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“I realized that the universe was just going to put animals in front of me.” —Wendy Ramos
The Fallons Farm Barn House 2022
Why we do what we do.
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In the year 2021, approximately 23,000 American horses were trucked over our borders to be slaughtered for human consumption. Until this practice is banned and Congress passes a law against slaughter here in the U.S., no horse is safe.
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Horses bound for slaughter (who may include pregnant mares, foals and horses who are injured or blind) are commonly and legally shipped for more than 24 hours at a time in crowded trucks without food, water or rest. The methods do not uniformly offer provide quick, painless deaths for all and there are documented instances in which horses have been observed conscious during dismemberment.
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At auctions, “kill buyers”—individuals that routinely sell equines to slaughter for profit—actively outbid good homes and adoption organizations, forcing them to spend precious resources to save an animal that may otherwise have had a safe place to go.
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Until a ban is in place, every American horse is at risk of meeting this fate. Fortunately, in 2021 the Save America’s Forgotten Equines (SAFE) Act, H.R. 3355/S. 2732, was introduced in Congress and it has a growing, bipartisan cosponsor list.
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source: aspca.org