Clydesdales help Purina deliver surprise to horse shelter in need

Finding homes for horses can be tricky sometimes so at Far View Horse Rescue we work together with the horse and the volunteers to get that horse to a level where an adoption is possible. Our focus is to help horses heal from whatever problems they've had in the past and then have them adopted out into homes that are appropriate for that particular animal. And our biggest goal is to find a forever home for every horse. At Purina, it's a no-brainer for us to be the title sponsor for a home for every horse.

Shelters like Far View you have a lot of challenges in terms of what these horses need when they arrive and to take feet out of the equation and make sure they have high-quality premium feed that allows them to really get the animals back on the right track, fits with our belief that all horses deserve their forever home. But it really is all the volunteers that come to these shelters and really work with the horses, that make the biggest difference. We don't have a single paid volunteer or board member or director. Nobody gets paid here; so we're all doing it out of the passion of our hearts toward these animals.

We get about two calls a week and would love to rescue all the horses we get calls about, but that is impossible so we we do our best. We write grants to pay for the feed, but we are in a position where we're facing winter, a very harsh one we understand coming up, and we have exhausted our food budget - we really have. The volunteers here think that we're here to thank them and show our appreciation for all their hard work and dedication. Which is true, but what they don't know is that were also here to surprise them with the delivery of two tons of feed for the horses.

We have some special celebrity guests. Thank you so much for being here today on behalf of Purina we are so grateful for all the work that you do here to help rescue horses achieve the greatest potential. And as you know this time of year is a time for surprises. Today we've got a great surprise for two tons of feed is about to be delivered by eight celebrity horses.

For a group of people who like horses this was pretty much the best surprise you could give us. Every aged person out there lit up with excitement at seeing these clysdales coming towards us and behind it is a truck with 4,000 pounds of donated Purina Strategy Senior Care for us. That's like so much grain. I've never seen that much green.

Such an amazing, amazing donation, it means we can take on more rescues and hopefully find good homes for them, and it's just an unbelievable, unbelievable day. It's an incredible gift. We are truly thankful, pretty choked up. Thank you.

The fact that anybody cares what we're doing, is just really really valuable..