Equine Transition,
Assistance & FOSTER Program

Based on the ASPCA Equine Transition and Adoption program aimed at developing solutions to the barriers that get in the way of at-risk horses finding homes.

Horse owners in need of understanding and help can access various services for their equines through our Equine Transition, Assistance and Adoption Program.

Here’s how it works: A mobile team, including a local veterinary partner (when available) or your Vet, assesses the horse(s) at the owner’s request. Based on that assessment, the team either provides subsidized veterinary care when it’s best for the horse to stay at home with the owner; compassionate euthanasia if needed to prevent suffering; placement into a willing Foster home for 90 days; or safe relinquishment* so the horse can receive care before being placed in a loving new home through adoption.

*The relinquishment of a horses is based on HAPI Trails ability to take the horse.
We are limited in space for ‘Sanctuary Horses.’
Foster homes can also help care for horses in need until more help can be provided.

Fostering means that you are opening your home and heart to an at-risk horse by becoming the primary caregiver until they are adopted, 90 days has passed, or until HAPI Trails is able to take them back into our facility.

By fostering a horse, you provide the horse with a place to live, shelter, food, water, proper medical care if needed, and just some good old TLC.

Fostering a horse can be emotional, please make sure that you discuss the concept of fostering with everyone in your family and make sure that they understand that the horse may eventually be leaving.