Farm Animals for Adoption

Horse available for adoption through AHS: 

Amigo is a 20 year old male Tennessee Walker who is not suitable for riding and needs to be placed in pasture retirement.

If you are interested in learning more about or adopting any of our horses, contact AHS at 828-253-6807.

While most people know that there is a huge overpopulation of unwanted dogs and cats in this country, our communities are also full of unwanted horses.  With last summer’s drought, hay prices remain extremely high, and this has compounded the number of unwanted equines in this region. 

     Asheville Humane Society, Buncombe County Animal Control, and Hope for Horses are working in collaboration to help these animals.  Hope for Horses is a volunteer, non-profit organization that helps rescue, house, and rehabilitate neglected and unwanted equines in our community.  They assist in housing horses acquired by Buncombe County’s Animal Control and Asheville Humane Society.  The phone lines are flooded with calls of neglected and starving horses, and “free to good home” ads are commonplace in local publications.

     No individual agency can handle this problem alone.  Experienced horse lovers are desperately needed to assist these deserving animals by:

•    temporarily boarding
•    transporting
•    permanently adopting

     If you have experience, safe hauling equipment and an appropriate environment to temporarily house or permanently adopt a horse, please contact Jennifer Brehler, AHS Director of Operations, at 253-6807.

Hope for Horses has other horses available for adoption as well as excess hay available to the public at cost.