Rocky Mountain Horse Rescue (RMHR) was founded in 2004 by Eugenia “Bini” Abbott in Arvada, CO. Bini, a resident of Colorado for 60 years, has been actively involved in horse rescue since the age of fourteen. She helped rescue horses with Colorado Horse Rescue throughout the 80s and 90s and co-founded the Horse Protection League (HPL) in 1994 in Arvada prior to starting RMHR. RMHR is dedicated to the rescue, welfare, and care of Horses, Ponies, Mules, and Donkeys. We are a 501(c)(3) organization and were 100% volunteer through January of 2019 when an injury to Bini required us to hire some part time help.
In 2004 we identified an immediate need to rescue horses that had been impounded. Since then we have been contacted by families facing financial difficulties, moves, deaths and other crisis situations that forced them to part with their animals. We’ve learned that a rescue means more than putting weight back on. It means rehabilitating a horse so that its adoptable. It involves educating individuals and groups on animal welfare. We give advice and counsel to daily callers. When we can’t take a horse we can direct them to other solutions. We provide a lifetime commitment to the animals we take in and are the forever home for those that we cannot place. Over time we learned that rescues sometimes require equipment. Our slings and lifts have been used as far away as Alaska and as nearby as a local swimming pool.
