 Hey everyone it's Gabrielle over here today at the Kentucky Humane Society East Campus. Now you guys I'm over here on behalf of Oxmer Toyota. We are donating a $2,500 donation. So with Toyota though they're actually going to match it with the Toyota dealer match program for an additional $2,500 which makes it that $5,000 donation. So Megan how is that going to affect you guys over here? Yes so we are so excited about this amazing opportunity that you guys have given us. It's going to go directly to help babies like this Holden. Holden came to the Kentucky Humane Society from an overcrowded shelter and we're able to take in animals from overcrowded Kentucky shelters because of amazing donations like this and we're so excited about it. Aren't you Holden? Yeah. I say and for those of you who are watching this is Holden. Holden is a year old and he's just a big goober. He came to the Kentucky Humane Society with heartworms and actually because of donations like you we're actually able to help him out and treat his heartworms until he's heartworm negative. So we're really excited to find this boy a home. He's beautiful. Definitely. Hopefully we'll find him a home. Now and I think we're actually going to go over to the equine facility after this because part of that is going towards that area too. Yes absolutely. Okay perfect. Yeah so we started the equine program in 2015 and it's been amazing. We've saved so many of the horses and you can imagine Kentucky is known for their horses so we're really excited about that program and that you guys will be able to help us out. Yes yeah we're excited to go over there. Well thank you so much Megan for taking the time to speak with me. Thank you. Hey everyone it's Gabrielle again and I'm over here at the equine facility. I have Savannah here with me and hope the beautiful horse. So Savannah now that donation that $5,000 donation from Toyota how is that all like going to assist you out here? Yeah definitely so we have this beautiful farm out here in Simpsonville Kentucky we call it Willow Hope Farm. We have one of our namesakes here right now but really what our program mission is to help horses and transition and reframe that conversation about adoption especially with our horses here. So whether that be owners that are no longer able to care for their horses and they want them to go to their next home. We've taken many owners to renders. We also have populations of stray horses that need our assistance and then we also have horses like Hope that were out free roaming in the eastern Kentucky mountaintop. But our goal here is to get these horses into the next chapter of their life and then find the next perfect owner for them. Okay perfect. And she's smiling for us today. Beautiful view right there. Now we do have the the Toyota truck here the Tundra. Now we helped you all get this I think a couple years ago last year. Now how is this all assisting you? Absolutely Sure so that truck has been really beneficial as just far as transportation between our farm and also elsewhere. I mean obviously the great truck bed that allows us to load up hay, salt blocks and any other materials that we may need for our horses. At any given time Willow Hope Farm is caring for 20 all the way up to 45 horses. So any sort of resources we can get are very helpful and we're really grateful for the partnership with Toyota. Yes definitely we're happy to do it. We love working with you all. So with me here today is Hope who is one of the shooting survivors from the eastern Kentucky shooting that took place last December. Hope came in with her weanling coat Knox and then also her daughter Diamond who was about two years old. When Hope arrived to our farm she was extremely emaciated, very stressed out and also very much pregnant. Now with Hope we have spent a long year with her making sure she gained enough weight so she was able to deliver a healthy full. So in April Knox her weanling coat was adopted and then in May the following month Lucius her full was delivered happy and healthy. Diamond is still with us in our care where she's getting round the clock training to ensure that we're finding the best home for her and Hope is with us now and she is or excuse me her colt has recently been weaned from her and she is now beginning her training evaluation at the farm and we hope to find her forever home very soon. This is our buddy Chance who is a 28 year old weanling that we just have you can already see just based off of the video how much poor condition he is in. I mean you can see a spine in his ribs and Chance was actually purchased by another organization at a slaughter auction. Yeah so we think that had this organization not pulled him from this auction he probably would have been next for slaughter so they brought him to us because they felt like we could rehab him the best and of course put him up for adoption and believe it or not he has actually gained a pretty significant amount of weight from when he first arrived. Poor baby. There he is. Oh um all this pasture space back here all the way up to that fence line this is all ours so we actually have over 42 acres of pasture um at 36 stalls which allows us to cure for up to 45 horses if needed. Big guy walking right here it's at Tennessee Walk and Cross his name is Rio. This is an instance where the owner had actually lost their land. They can no longer care for him but they wanted him to go and find a good home so we took him in last month and he'll make for a great fit for somebody. Far left here is Willow. She is our namesake so Willow came to us last October extremely emaciated she was found on the mountaintop in eastern Kentucky. Honestly had we not intervened she probably would not have survived that winter she was skin and bones. On top of that she was also pregnant but since she's been here now she is rehabilitated. She does have a pretty skinny frame I think that's just from now malnourishment for many years on that mountaintop but she did drop a full in May who is doing really really well. So this is Buck who we talked about earlier the mule going to come say hi. Hi baby. Very friendly. Hi sweetie. Hi you're old man. Look all that white oh my goodness. Okay really cool right here on our right that's Highland Thunder who is a 21 year old thoroughbred. He raced a few times and they just wanted his next career so they gave him to us so we'll find his next great home. Walking up to us right now Callie. She's also in her late 20s. She came in with Buck so the instance where the owner was just moving into an apartment complex. It didn't want to sell her but they wanted her to get readopted out. Hi. Hi beautiful. You're gorgeous. This is Annabelle three years old very young. She was used for kind of a makeover project with a young child and after they were finished with that makeover they turned her to us so she could find her home. Annabelle is probably going to do best going to a home with somebody who has experience working with green horses and green horses just means that they really haven't been ridden too much and need significant more training than a broke horse. Okay. Rocky actually came in in April from Trigg County and this is a a place where we were asked to assist with an animal investigation so we do not go in and actively investigate cruelty cases. We have to be asked by somebody that has that county official to do it. So Rocky came in because she was locked in a stall for 10 years. What? Yeah. 10 years of her entire life. Jeez. So her hooves were completely overgrown. I mean curling upwards is probably the most disturbing thing I've ever seen before and I've seen some really gross things but that was the worst to see. So she did come in with two other horses. One was a stallion that was transferred to another rescue. So we were asked to assist with the case with the Kentucky State Troopers and also the Department of Agriculture. So the two horses right here the gray mare standing in front of us her name is Flower. You also see the Palomino mare back there her name is Sandy. So we had gone down to this property to assist with a large animal case. There were 40 horses on the property including several that were malnourished and some that were dead. So the owner did surrender the horses over to us. These two actually just had foals in May. Fools are doing really well and actually already have adopters lined up for them. Then on her right here with Gabby that's Gia. She is a 18 year old thoroughbred mare. So Gia actually raced a few times and then was used as a brood mare which is a horse for breeding but she could not reliably turn cannot reliably carry horses to term. So she's looking for her third career. She'd make probably a great little show horse. She's beautiful. She's stunning yeah. And then this guy right here is probably one of my favorite names. His name is DeGiorno. That's right. Named after the pizza. And he is an Arabian and he came to us. He was probably a little bit more energetic than the previous owner could handle. So she turned him to us and he'll need to go to a home where somebody has experience with Arabians or experience with some other horses.