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Five years ago, when Elaine Nash formed Equine Protection Organization Fleet of Angels, the only organization with a national network formed to quickly evacuate equines from natural disasters, she had no idea that it would be used for the largest horse rescue in America and perhaps world history. A year ago, a state attorney for South Dakota got in touch and asked me to help place 207 of 907 privately owned wild horses that had been impounded from a neglect situation. And we're likely to be sold for slaughter unless someone helped them get safe homes, Nash explains. She worked day and night and under the absolute worst possible circumstances, managed to find homes by mid December for the 270 that were free to adopt out. We learned that the rest of the horses were being held with a lean against the cost of hay that the counties had been feeding the impounded horses. Those remaining 600 plus horses were a terrible risk of being bought by kill buyers when sold at an auction that had been set for just a few days later. We needed to raise a significant amount of money to save the rest from going to that sale, and we needed to raise it fast. Mother and Baby Rescued by Fleet of Angels Part of the 907 horses rescued from South Dakota, I stated and started making calls to see if we could pull off one more miracle. One of my first calls was to need Andy, mind you as director of Return to Freedom, an organization that advocates for wild horses and educates the public regarding the crisis facing wild horses in America, Need a had a strong relationship with the largest animal welfare organizations in the country. She set up a conference call for us with the Humane Society of America and the Association for the Society of Prevention of Cruelty to Animals to see what we could all do together. And she also brought a private donor, Patricia Griffin Softball on board. Incredibly, those three entities helped us quickly secure all the funds required to pay off the county's leans on the horses so the auction could be cancer. The county is also required that we agreed to take on the ongoing cost of the horses care, even though we didn't know what the court's final decision about the horses ultimate fate would be. We agreed and cared for the 600 plus forces while we waited a month and 1/2 for a decision, which came at the end of January. The day before the hearing, the judge agreed to a settlement with the owner of the horses, with the result being that all but 20 of the horses were turned over to fleet of Angels. The owner from whom they've been seized was allowed to keep 20 of the 907 ah collective social media cheer winner with lots of hallelujahs from the horses supporters nationwide. And from that day on, they have been known as the Hallelujah Horses. They even have their own Facebook page. It was a major group effort for finding homes for all 907 of the handle Louis horses. Starting with the adoption process, Barbara Rasmussen volunteered to travel from Arizona to South Dakota to help and was made the adoption manager. As soon as she arrived on site, she reviewed every adoption application and envy did the candidates to see if they had what it took to be good owners as well as helps with a fundraising and looking for placement of groups of special needs horses. She went with us when we moved the great operation to Colorado and has been a great oil contributor for this effort. Fleets of Angels partnered with Nancy Turner of This Old Horse Rescue in Minnesota who oversaw some projects of donations management for the project. And Nash credits Laurie Armstrong of Nevada and her team of workers for doing the artist job. Rounding up the Mustangs in one of the worst winters in decades with a chill factor of 40 degrees below 0 20 foot high snowdrifts and the visibility of less than 15 feet, the highways were frozen solid, the roads were sometimes closed, and there were no shelters or windbreaks at all for any of the hundreds of horses. The crew had to separate stallion's from the mayor's and kept them in the holding corrals until the adopters could get there with traders. The horses all stood with head down, bracing against the wind and snow, just trying to survive. The tips of the ears of dozens of the horses were frozen off, and some fools even froze to death while they were being born or soon thereafter. Nash was on her computer much of the time she was in South Dakota, where including adopters, fundraising and handling other administrative duties. She was out with the horses enough, however, to witness the trauma the horses experienced when the crew separated the Mustang families.