There are many animals in the world who need help, but I can think of few as stirring and worthy as Piper, one of Blue Star Equiculture’s iconic draft horses. Blue Star has saved, rescued and rehabilitated countless numbers of these remarkable animals, they helped to build our country and are helping still.
Although some elements of the animal world think it is cruel or demeaning for animals to work with and for people, these proud and strong animals were bred to work with people and they live for it. They are the connection to our past and our future, they call to us to keep them in our world.
Piper needs a molar tooth extraction – a tooth pulled – it will cost $3,500 and Blue Star has already raised $1,387 on on their Piper gofundme page.
Piper needs about $2,115 more for her dental surgery, which is urgent.
We all have many causes, needs and interests, and many differences as well, but I think helping an animal like this end her pain and be healthy again – she has much work ahead of her – is something almost all of us can unite behind.
Some of you may have followed my great interest in Blue Star and friendship with Paul Moshimer and Pamela Rickenbach, who helped Blue Star become a beacon for those of us who wish to keep domesticated animals in our world and treat them and the people who love them humanely.
Blue Star is, I think, the Third Way for animals, a loving and inspirational middle ground between the angry ideology of the animal rights movement and the emotionalizing of animals by people who only know animals at pets. At Blue Star, people and animals are saved in the course of working together. They re-connect us to the natural world and the world of animals.
If any of you have a few dollars lying around – you have been so generous to the refugees and the residents of the Mansion – perhaps you could help Piper out. It haunts me a bit to think of this proud and beautiful animal in great pain.
In recent months, I’ve lost touch with Blue Star a bit, there are so many other issues not to confront.
I imagine Paul’s suicide was a part of that also for me, to be honest. It remains unfathomable for me. But Paul loved Piper dearly, she was special for him, and I am happy to contribute to this Molar campaign in his name and memory, as well as for Piper and Pamela.
But their work is important, even sacred, to those of us who believe in treating people and animals with care and dignity, and not just patronizing them as pathetic and dependent creatures.
Blue Star also recognizes the importance of treating people in the same way. The politics of the animals world, like the politics of the human world, have become cruel and divisive, devoid of empathy and compassion. Blue Star offers us another way, and Piper is a wonderful way to support them.
If you wish, you can click here to help Piper get her tooth pulled. The Army of Good is large and growing stronger, this is something for us, I think we can really help a worthy creature. Thanks.