Hear our humble prayer, O God, for our friends the animals. Especially for animals who are suffering, for animals that are overworked, underfed, cruelly treated: for all wistful creatures in captivity that beat their wings against bars. For any that are hunted and lost or deserted or frightened or hungry, for all that must be put to death. We entreat for them all the mercy and pity, and for those who deal with them we ask a heart of compassion and gentle hands and kindly words. Make us, ourselves; to be true friends to animals and so share the blessings of the merciful.
--Albert Schweitzer

• No one working with ASAP Inc. receives a salary or commission.
• All board members and officers are volunteers.
• Foster farms are encourage to board horses at no cost to ASAP. When board is charged, ASAP's cost is $2 per day per horse. Recently, our board bills have averaged $25 per day.
• ASAP does not charge any racing owner or other owners for shipping their horses.
• ASAP legal fees cost $150 per hour. Irresponsibility on the part of an adopter at times makes legal action unavoidable to protect the horse.
• We do not give monetary refunds for horses - adopters pay a service fee at the time of adoption.
• ASAP director's husband is a saint! He is the resident "veterinarian" who administers shots and gives special treatment to horses in need. He also is quite handy with building fences and shelters, and hauling horses. He can put on 1,100 miles in a 24 hour period without needing more than a "thank you!"
• Veterinarians do not donate any of their time or services to ASAP, despite our pleas.
• Farriers do not donate any of their time or services to ASAP, despite our pleas.
• Attorneys do not donate any of their time or services to ASAP.
• Veterinarian bills run into the thousands each year.
• Farrier bills vary, but average $100 to $150 for each trip to trim or shoe horses in care.
• Horse's average length of stay before being adopted is three weeks for young, sound, well-trained horses, and one year for aged or injured horses.
• We receive only $1,500 per year from harness racing organizations.
• The rest of our donations come soley from private parties, most of whom are owners of horses who donate a horse to us and believe in our program.

ASAP is a charity that dedicates every waking moment to helping horses in need. Some horses don't need more than a different career - a dignified retirement - an alternative to racing when they aren't doing what they were bred to do. These horses are sound, younger, healthy, and easy to place. This makes up about 90% of the donated horses. They are referred, picked up, boarded, and placed with qualified families within two weeks of arriving at ASAP.

Then there are the rescue cases - the horses coming off feedlots - or the horses that come out of emergency situations where their immediate welfare is in grave danger. These horses need special attention and a special, carefully selected feeding plan. They require more intense veterinary treatment, and, usually more emergency veterinary treatment. Our veterinarians do not volunteer their time or their services to ASAP. Since 1994 ASAP has been responsible for payment in full for services rendered for everything from floating teeth to emergency calls for colic or other urgent situations. The veterinarians charge us for every interstate health certificate - every coggins test - and with no apologies. ASAP relies on adoption fees and individual donations to pay the bills.

The horses referred to ASAP are sometimes irreversably lame. They have incurred hock injuries, stifle injuries, blindness, ankle injuries, EPM, or are sometimes simply aged. These horses are not turned away by ASAP, but are brought back to the farm for rehabilitation if it is possible. If rehabilitation is not possible, these horses become sanctuary horses. These horses live out their years at the ASAP farm and are loved, cared for, and given the best the world has to offer them simply because they are part of the ASAP family. These horses are funded by adoption fees generated by adoptions on healthy horses. They are also supported by sponsorship money and individual donations. See horses needing sponsorship.

We simply do not receive enough monetary donations. The harness racing industry is indebted to the former racing champions who now find themselves in permanent retirement at ASAP, but to date this debt has not paid in full. Those of you who value our services to the standardbred and all other breeds can help by urging organizations to support the horses in care at ASAP. But you can make a difference yourself, today, right now, by saying the safety and well-being of these horses matters...

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