Home

CAROLINA EQUINE RESCUE AND ASSISTANCE IS A NON-PROFIT 501C
ORGANIZATION

CERA'S MISSION STATEMENT

Our primary goal of caring for abused, neglected, and/or
abandoned equines.
CERA will also take in equine that are unwanted or whose current
owners are unable to care for them before they reach an
emaciated condition. These situations must fall within the CERA
guidelines. We will also assist in natural disasters, such as
weather related issues or individual tragedies. We will provide
equines with proper medical and farrier care, in addition to good
quality grain, hay, and water. Equines are then rehabilitated and
placed in approved, caring, and loving homes. If an individual
equine cannot be rehabilitated, to end their suffering, they will be
humanely euthanized

CERA also believes that education is the foundation for equines
to have a proper home. Therefore, we offer educational classes
for law enforcement, and animal control. In addition, there will
also be classes for new and existing horse owners that will be
taught with the help of qualified clinicians.
Participants in our classes are able to have hands on education
with several different breeds and ages of horses

An old man walked up a shore littered with thousands of
starfish, beached and drying up after a storm. A young man was
picking them up and flinging them back into the ocean. "Why do
you bother?" the old man scoffed. "You are not saving enough to
make a difference." The young man picked up another starfish
and sent it spinning back to the water. "Made a difference to
that one," he said. -Author Unknown

WELCOME TO
Carolina Equine
Rescue & Assistance

Now that I'm home, bathed, settled and fed.
All nicely tucked in my warm new bed,

I'd like to open my baggage, lest I forget,
There is so much to carry - So much to regret

Hmmm... Yes, there it is, right on the top,
Let's unpack Loneliness, Heartache and Loss,
And there by my perch hides Fear and Shame.

As I look on these things I tried so hard to leave -
I still have to unpack my baggage called Pain.

I loved them, the others, the ones who left me,
But I wasn't good enough - for they didn't want me.

Will you add to my baggage? Will you help me
unpack?
Or will you just look at my things - And take me right
back?

Do you have the time to help me unpack?
To put away my baggage, to never repack?

I pray that you do - I'm so tired you see,
But I do come with baggage - Will you still want me?

CLICK ON LINK
CERA TRIBUTE

Could you bed me down with kindness on the soft, sweet words of love.
Could you ride me in man's finest, with hands light as a dove.

Could you teach me with old wisdom by the laws of just and fair.
Could you be my friend forever with a trust so true and rare.

Could you meet me on the morrow, with grasses green and sweet.
Could you free me without sorrow on the plains of loam and wheat.

Could you say farewell with honor on the day my life is through.
And remember me forever, as I shall remember you.
-Julie MacDonald

CHECK OUT OUR
EVENTS PAGE FOR
CERA'S FIELD DAY ON
MAY 19!