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New Beginning Equine Shelter   [ MAP ]
2543 Difficult Creek Road
Bedford, VA   24523
Contact Person: Joy Cope
Email Address: Newbshelter@aol.com
Website: http://www.nb-equineshelter.org
Phone: 540-297-8268


Being a small rescue with limited space, we now only take in extreme cases. In the past we have over extended ourselves by taking in healthy horses that owners wanted to place in new homes. We will no longer offer this service of care for this type of horse at our shelter. It is important to keep space open for emergency care and healing. We will continue to keep a list on our web site of owners that are looking to place their change of career horses and will be happy to refer the owner and horse to any inquires from people wanting to adopt a horse. We will provide the adoption service if the two connect, for a donation to the shelter. Please contact the shelter if you are interested in placing your horse to an "adopted" home and we will work with you any way that we can. Our first priority is always in the very best interest of the equine.

We will continue our educational programs. We feel that much of the abuse to horses comes from ignorance rather than intentional abuse. Perhaps in a small way, this will help stop some of that abuse.

We encourage all adopting and foster families to send updates on their horses to post on this site. We are also in the process of encouraging all families to register their horses with Equusworld.net They have a program called Equus Manager that New Beginning Equine Shelter feels is a wonderful service for all horse owners. If you have any questions about Equusworld please contact Joy Cope at jccasi@yahoo.com or visit their site.