I had my first experience with this group this last weekend when visiting friends who are part owners of an elderly horse with their daughter who houses the horse across the street. We were talking in the living room, and we witnessed a car pull up and look at the horse from the road, they left and returned minutes later. My friend went out to see what the problem was, the rep for this farm made accusations that the horse was neglected., and threatened to call the cops on the owner for harassment. These people need better training a little professionalism would go a long way, just asking about the horses would have found out that the vet just visited days before, and that the horse was being fed special, and expensive food and not neglected at all. Rescuing neglected, and abused animals is admirable, but overzealous representatives can quickly hurt a reputation.
I found this woman who runs the place to be as Cold and Callus as they make them. She was very suspicious of my visit to the place and had NO Compassion for my request. All she spoke of was the Fame she is seeking with a Movie to be made on them. I would NOT leave any of my animals there. And I would be very concerned for others doing so as well. Just visit the place and see the reception you get!!
Live and Let Live Farm has no doubt helped a lot of horses over the years. However, they seem to take a "one size fits all" approach to equine care as evidenced by the death of Pride only 3 1/2 months after arrival. Pride was a Saddlebred cross mare, in her early 20's, who was surrendered to LLLF because her owner suffered hardships that prevented her caring for her horse any longer. Pride was given a clean bill of health by her vet when the Coggins was done; only health condition was a mild case of heaves for which she needed daily medication and soaked hay.
Pride arrived at LLLF on March 3 and was euthanized around the middle of June. Not a lot is known about her time at this rescue except that a picture taken in late March shows Pride looking over a fence, noticeably thinner than her intake photos, blanketless in the cold even though she clearly did not have enough fat to keep herself warm. Whatever she was fed was not sufficient to maintain her weight and the conditions to which Pride was subjected caused her health to fail.