Mission Statement
Adopt-A-Horse provides both advocacy and recreational therapy for victims of child abuse. Both sponsors and mentors support our self help group with a combination of time or money or both. Our goal is to help other victims of child abuse find a permananent alternative to self destructive behavior.
Horses & Ponies Seek Sponsors
Our adopted family is made up of eleven horses and seven ponies. Our guests are as young as 6 years old and as old as sixty years old. We give tours of our beautiful 1400 acre private game preserve on the Alcovy River in Covington, GA. We are living approximately 35 miles east of downtown Atlanta.
Guests ride with a riding instructor and one of our adopted horses and ponies for 2-3 hour tours of our home. Your donations keep our horses and ponies in our home for the rest of theirr lives. Please join us for a tour of our home. We ask for a $75 donation per person for each session.
Contact Dennis Horion at 770-712-8685 or dennis@adopt-a-horse.org for an appointment to ride with our family
Observations About Endurance Riders From an Eloquent Observer
Endurance addict is wearing lycra tights in some neon color. Has not read the rule that lycra is a privilege, not a right. The shinier, the better, so that they can find her body when her mount dumps her down (another) ravine. Wearing hiking sneakers of some sort and a smear of trail dirt on the cheek. Sporting one of the zillions of T-shirts she got for paying $75 to complete some other torturous ride. Socks may or may not match (each other).
Backyard rider can be found wearing (in summer) shorts and bra, (in winter) flannel nightgown, muck boots, down jacket. Drives a ford tempo filled with dirty blankets and dog hair. Usually has deformed toes on the right foot from being stepped on in the Walmart sneakers that are worn for riding. Roots need touching up to hide the grey. 2-horse bumperpull behind barn filled with sawdust/hay. Can be found trying to teach her horse to come in the kitchen to eat so she doesn't have to walk all the way to the barn.