Sanctuary Adoption Search Equine Emma Dean

Adopt Emma Dean

Horse, looks like

Grade

Age

Adult, Estimated birthdate: January 1, 2016

Sex

Female

Color

Red

Location

Sanctuary

Emma got her name through her amazing origin story which made national news! She started life a as a free roaming unhandled horse on the Navajo Nation bordering Lake Powell. When the lake was low, she wandered across a sand bar to an area that quickly turned into an island when the water level in the lake rose, leaving her and her newborn foal stranded. Boaters on the lake saw the pair and realized they didn't have any food left on their island and put a rescue operation into motion to get them to Best Friends. Emma is named after John Wesley Powell's wife, Harriet Emma Dean Powell. Emma was wild and un-handleable when she came but has made a lot of progress and has gotten quite tame. She is looking for a life-long partner who is extremely experienced and understands her worries and her sensitive nature and appreciates how amazing she is.

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Best Friends is working to end the killing of dogs and cats in U.S. shelters in part by getting more pets out of shelters and into loving homes.

We’ve come a long way since the first known city reached no-kill in 1994, and now we’re closer than ever to making the entire country no-kill. Of the roughly 3,900 shelters operating in America today, 1,300 of them are not yet no-kill, but nearly half are close with 100 or fewer additional pets to be saved, and we know what to do to get them there.

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Working together, we can save homeless pets in our communities and secure a better future for our best friends. Together, we will bring the whole country to no-kill.