8A COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL May 20, 2015
B EYOND THE G ROVE
BRIEFS FROM BEYOND
Fish Restoration
and Enhancement
Board to meet in
Sutherlin
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Dreams do come true…for horses and little girls, too
BY LARAE ASH
For the Sentinel
N
ot far away, there is a
magical place, the stuff
of dreams, really, for horse-
loving little girls (and boys)
everywhere — and certainly
for the lucky animals that have
somehow landed in this pastoral
paradise to spend their remain-
ing days in care, comfort and
companionship.
My granddaughter, Bella Wil-
son, is one of those little girls
captivated by the gentle giants.
Baskets of plastic horses, trail-
ers, fencing and stalls pile up
in her closet, and horses gallop
across her bedroom walls. One
day, she swears, she will have a
horse, and we have come to visit
this special place as part of her
eighth birthday gift.
We are at the Duchess Sanctu-
ary, a 1,120-acre ranch set amid
the rolling hills east of Oakland.
The non-profi t facility is oper-
ated by The Fund for Animals
in partnership with The Humane
Society of the United States. It
is one of four such sanctuaries
in the country and is home to
198 horses that have been res-
cued from abuse, exploitation,
abandonment and slaughter.
Many of them are refugees
from the Premarin industry. At
one time, they spent six months
a year pregnant and tethered
in a stall where their urine was
collected to create estrogen re-
placement therapy drugs for
western women in menopause.
Others are racehorses that just
weren’t fast enough, show hors-
es whose owners lost interest,
wild mustangs that were headed
for the slaughterhouse or those
who were simply neglected or
photo by LaRae Ash
Herbie the pony cuddles up to Bella Wilson on her
recent visit to The Duchess Sanctuary near Oakland.
Herbie not only found refuge, but also a best friend in
Nellie, a blind, elderly pony with which he is inseparable.
abandoned.
Today, Director of Opera-
tions Jennifer Kunz is taking
time from her busy schedule
to introduce us to some of her
residents. Kunz, too, was once
a horse-crazy little girl whose
parents thought the infatuation
would fade away. It didn’t.
She eventually got her own
horse — although these days
she rarely fi nds the time to ride
— and she has built a life around
the animals she loves so deeply.
When the Duchess Sanctuary
property was purchased six
years ago, Kunz came from
Canada with the original herd
of 89 rescues to help create the
refuge.
As we move about the prop-
erty, with its pristine barns and
stalls, endless fencing, tidy
corals and expansive pasture,
we learn about some of its resi-
dents.
There is the elderly Nellie,
blind now, and the boot-wearing
Herbie, who arrived with one
of the worst cases of splayed
hooves that Kunz had ever seen.
Today Herbie serves as Nellie’s
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Friday, May 22 from 6-9 p.m.
There is no cover charge, and
the event is for those age 21 and
over.
The Oregon Department of
Fish and Wildlife’s Fish Resto-
ration and Enhancement Board
will meet on Friday and Satur-
day, May 29 and 30 in Suther-
lin.
The committee will meet on
May 29 from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. at
the Best Western Plus Hartford
Lodge, located at 150 Myrtle
Street in Sutherlin to review 19
project proposals. The agenda
also includes a district update,
various staff updates, review
of the new STEP/RE commu-
nication plan, and discussions
related to ODFW engineering
and project management and
the role of R&E in implement-
ing the Coastal Multi Species
Conservation Plan.
eyes, and the two are insepa-
rable.
We meet Freckles and Chey-
enne, the hot romance on the
ranch, and Lucky, a racehorse
from Idaho who won 18 races
but ended up starving when his
luck ran out.
And we learn about the “spe-
cial needs” ladies — eight old
mares requiring medication and
“mushy feed” — which live on
the fl attest fi eld to ease their ar-
thritic bones.
“We’re looking after them to
the end of their lives, so we want
them to be happy and comfort-
able,” says Kuntz, who knows
every horse’s name and story.
Tomorrow will be a big day,
she says. It’s vaccination day,
and many of the horses that have
been corralled for the process
watch us warily. A few saunter
up to the fence for a nuzzle.
After their shots, they’ll be re-
leased to the open pastures to
enjoy all that green grass they’ve
been watching grow through the
spring.
“It’s pretty funny,” Kuntz
says. “They run out into the pas-
ture about 20 feet, then just stop
to eat that grass.”
Hers is a big job, one she does
with two staff members and a
Raptor Center
Family Nature
Discovery Day
Cascades Raptor Center in-
vites families to take part in its
fi rst Family Nature Discovery
Day of 2015 on Sunday, May 31
between noon and 4 p.m. Guests
can learn about birds in spring-
time — where birds nest, who
builds nests and who doesn't.
Kids and their families can build
their own bird nest and decorate
eggs to place in the nest. Partici-
pants will learn that it is not as
easy as it looks to build a nest!
They will also learn that many
birds don't build nests at all.
While visiting the Raptor Cen-
ter, families can view over 50
permanent resident birds.
Activities are recommended
for children between the ages of
4-11, and children must be ac-
companied by an adult.
Hat Trick in Drain
The North Douglas Perform-
ing Arts proudly presents "Hat
Trick" on Friday, May 22 at 7
p.m. Band members are: Dan
Fouts, Garry Kendrick and Skip
Golden.
All concerts are held at the
Drain Civic Center, 205 West A
Street in Drain. Doors open at
6:30 p.m. Admission is $5 per
person.
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