Woody Creek resident Margaret Reckling planned to buy herself a Christmas present — until she browsed the Colorado Slaughterhouse Bound Horses page on Facebook last week.
That’s all it took to rearrange her discretionary spending. Instead of buying an expensive camera lens, she gave three horses a reprieve from a death sentence.
Reckling was familiar with Colorado Feedlot Horses, a nonprofit organization that was formed in 2014 to try to save horses that get shipped out from Colorado for slaughter, most often to Mexico.
The nonprofit nurtured a relationship with the owner of one of the two horse-slaughter feedlots operating in Colorado. It tries to save as many of the horses as possible in the short window from when they arrive at the feedlot to when they get shipped.
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