Horse Protection Society OF North Carolina
2135 Miller Road
china grove, North Carolina 28023
Phone: 704-855-2978
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.horseprotection.org/
Founded in 1991 by Joan B. Benson and incorporated in 1999, we continue to reach out and to grow. HPS is a fully incorporated 501(c)3, approved by the Internal Revenue Service as a nonprofit organization.
The Horse Protection Society maintains the only equine sanctuary in North Carolina that provides permanent retirement care for abused and neglected equine. The sanctuary is available for people who can no longer afford to care for their equine. Rocking Horse Ranch has housed as many as 40 horses. The need is so great that plans will have to be made to find a larger facility and funds raised for the purchase.
HPS has trained investigators that perform on-going abuse and neglect investigations with the goal of educating the owners in the proper care of their horses. We only prosecute abuse cases when absolutely necessary. When the owners are not interested in the humane care of their horse, we offer to take the horse for rehabilitation.
HPS is still recovering financially from an equine rescue and subsequent prosecution in January 1999 of Carole Lewis, a breeder of American Saddlebreds, who has been investigated in several states. It is one of the few equine abuse cases where an owner lost all of their horses. From the herd of 29 starved and neglected horses, HPS has placed most in loving homes with the exception of those belonging to private owners.
No pets found on this shelter
Directions and map
Note: PO Boxes will not show correctly on the map below.
