If you missed the original broadcast of Peggy Kaiser’s uplifting 207 segment on rehabilitating horses AND people, this is your second chance. You won’t even have to visit the Channel 6 archives to view it! Tonight (April 6, 2020), 207 will re-broadcast this very popular piece featuring abused horses in recovery receiving help from incarcerated women who are also rehabilitating […]
MSSPA is excited to share that Robyn Cuffey of Photo Finish Farm has been selected as a WMTW News 8 Community Champion. Internationally recognized as a superior carriage driving professional, Robyn also is a celebrated competitive dressage champion. She has been retraining and rehoming retired Standardbred horses for over 35 years now and has collaborated […]
Maine Rescue Offers Second Chances to Volunteer Inmates and ‘Broken’ Horses By SUSAN SHARON A few years ago the Maine State Society for the Protection of Animals in Windham was struggling financially. As New England’s largest horse rescue, the nonprofit farm was trying to care for more horses than it could comfortably manage, facilities were in […]
Written by Aislinn Sarnacki, this piece appeared in the Bangor Daily News on November 14, 2018 Tess was a racehorse, but she was never a very good one. And in her late teens, retired but healthy, she was no longer wanted by her then owners. So they called Maine State Society for the Protection […]
The Maine State Society for the Protection of Animals is thrilled to announce that it is now accredited by the Global Federation of Animal Sanctuaries (GFAS). Accreditation signifies that Maine State Society for the Protection of Animals meets GFAS’s rigorous and peer-reviewed equine care standards which are confirmed by a comprehensive site visit. Accreditation also […]