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Welcome to the Equestrian Outreach Home Page

Equestrian Outreach Web Site Overview

To the hundreds of thousands of wonderful equestrians who have visited this site since our 2010 makeover; thank you for all of your kind comments, corrections and suggestions and please continue to help improve this site. You are all proof positive that our relationships with horses are unlike any other. We are equestrians working together, regardless of discipline, to strengthen and improve our sport. We hope that with your help; you find this site a complete, balanced, helpful and accurate information resource for the equestrian community while using our communities’ social media pressure to rehabilitate or eliminate self-serving, even dangerous equestrian vendors.

Although we solicit donations, the operating revenue for this site and our programs is generated by our site vendors, who participate based on our web site’s ‘visitor volume’, which we track.  Basically our programs help in the coordination of rescuing horses, undoing their damage and then using those rescued horses to help people.

Humans helping horses; horses safely helping humans! A relationship like no other.

Please feel free to express your opinion on ways to improve this site as each of you is a vital part of the process. If you like and support our site please share it with your friends as participation by passionate equestrians like you "drives the motor".

 

 

 

 

What is Equestrian Outreach? We are an equestrian advocacy association. Our goals are as follows:

1. Information Resource: To provide complete, balanced and accurate information. Information created for and maintained by feedback from the international equestrian community.
2. Equestrian Advocacy: To advocate on behalf of all equestrians and our horses, in ways that improve our sport, our horses and our planet.
3. Vendor Endorsement through Consumer Feedback: As the heading suggests we will use consumer feedback to rate, endorse and possibly remove site vendors based on regulated consumer feedback.
4. Vendor Funding: To fund these tasks through the support of our web site vendors. Vendors who participate based on the volume of visitors and patronage directed from our site.
5. Informing, Motivating and Directing Equestrian Consumers: To our vendors our goal is to direct informed and motivated equestrian patrons to you. We receive vendor support; you receive positive exposure and the patronage of an ideal target market.

Humans and Horses; A Relationship Like No Other

Humans and Horses; From Food to Friend - The histories of humans and horses have been intertwined since their paths; that of the first modern horses and of early Stone Age humans crossed in the Paleolithic Era over 40,000 years ago. First horses soon became a Stone Age menu item. Due to the amazing adaptability of both species we ‘domesticated’ each other. Selfishly, we protected horses while they quietly labored for us in agriculture. Soon we adapted horses for transportation and they allowed us to use them as our primary means of transportation. We took our horses to war and they bravely died along side us. In our growing partnership; horses, tempered with strength, willingness, courage and stamina, have shared our history. (Click here for more information about human horse history)

Humans Helping Horses; a Kinder and Gentler Partnership - Today, horses share a mixed partnership. Some horses are venerated and maintain a magical, heroic status; some horses are consumed, starved and abused to death.For the most part horses and humans have formed an amazing partnership. It can be argued that the Human - Equine partnership is one of the most successful in human history; as such we have an unpaid debt to horses.  We need to make sure that they are well fed and cared for. We need to think seriously about the dubious ethics of mistreating and consuming them. Once wild, free ranging and highly social, horses have mostly been relegated to confinement often with limited socialization. In spite of these conditions our partnership has produced stunning results. Today our horses are arguably smarter, stronger, healthier, bigger and smaller; with hundreds of different breeds. (Click here for more information on horse care)

Horses Helping Humans; Equine Magic - Lastly we need to allow them the opportunity to work their magic in a safe and productive environment. Today we better understand their “Equine Magic”. Combine that magic with children who are at risk and those children grow into happy, intelligent and productive adults. Combine Equine Magic with injured people and they get healthier and happier. (Click here for more information about our Equine Assisted Therapy Program)

Note - this is a large site with many pages, links and information. If you are unsure what information you are looking for try our site map.
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If you are interested in editing or adding content you may want to look at our site policies.
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Not For Profit Status: Equine Outreach, is a privately funded, not for profit organization (NPO) (Status as a 501(c)(3) NPO is pending)

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