Help For Horses in Puerto Rico

Let us start by saying … We know the Police do not always act immediately when you call,  However, if you, your friends & our Social Media Community team up calling the same town’s Police & Mayor’s Office we have found that will motivate the Police.   One day we hope it does not take all this effort, but for now it does so please follow the steps and repeat the steps until the Police take action and continue to take action enforcing Law 154.   Every horse has an owner, it just might take some investigation by the Police to find that owner.   If a horse is injured the Police and Mayor’s Office know people who can help. We also have a list of HORSE PROFESSIONALS who can be called directly to help if injury or Vet needed.   This Island has around ONE MILLION HORSES    Continue to read and follow steps 

You need to contact  #1 Police/911 #2 The Local City Hall/Mayor’s Office #3  Emergency Management Services  787-724-0124 to help a horse you do NOT own.    You can do this from anywhere in the World.   While waiting on these authorities,  YOU CAN put out water & grass or hay for starving horses.  Follow these steps

  1. Make a  PUBLIC POST to FACEBOOK  on your wall and after share that same post to this very large FB group we manage  https://www.facebook.com/groups/rinconpuertoricogroup      In the POST YOU MAKE include the local Mayor’s Office & Local Police phone numbers.    Include photos, map marker.   In the post,  Ask everyone to call the same numbers and ask they send help to the horse – referring Law 154 – EVERYONE SHOULD continue to call politely and relentlessly until they respond to help the horse.    You can edit your original post as updates come in.    Don’t make new posts, stick with just one post.
  2. Email us the LINK TO THE POST you already MADE   DefensaRincon@gmail.com we will work on our end as we can under the law to find the owner or a proper home for the horse via Social Media  – The only time we take a horse into our care in Rincon is when the Police ask us directly and the horses is uniquely in need – as some of our previous rescued horses .

We are trying to get every City in Puerto Rico to set up a small Horse Rescue & Rehab fields, copying our success with such in Rincon (Western PR) .  Read & share the concept here INDIVIDUAL CITY EQUINE RESCUE & REHABILITATION COMMUNITY CENTERS

If your horse, or a horse you are working with the Police/Mayor’s Office to help, needs a home please make a detailed post to FB public.    Then email us that link and we will share it and we will work with you to find the horse a home.     In that post include several photos of the horse,  age as best you know it,  sex and if male is it castrated, exact current location of the horse and a phone number & email address people can contact directly to inquire on giving the horse a home.     We will be viewing all the posts you make and if we have the space to take in a horse we will.     Currently we have 33 rescued horses under our daily care and over the years we have taken in close to 100 horses.    We need to help others set up similar programs, email us if you’d like to do that

Read the Open Letter on  #ARescuedHorse if you would like to know how you can do more simply by talking to others, to help more horses in all of Puerto Rico.