No caring horse owner would want their animal to stop eating, suffer stomach pains, struggle to breathe, go blind or even die. Yet this is what can happen to horses if owners fail to do one very important job as part of their care. Remus Memorial Horse Sanctuary wants to educate horse owners on these […]

Remus Memorial Horse Sanctuary has recently appointed Cara Wilson as its Education Officer, with a view to creating and developing relationships within the Essex adult education and business sectors. The main focus of the role will be to develop a range of educational services for Remus, from visiting a place of learning, to encouraging students […]

On Monday 21 July 2014 Sue Burton, founder of Remus Memorial Horse Sanctuary, met with Lord DeMauley, Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs), at Westminster to discuss the equine welfare crisis that exists in this country. Furthermore, Sue and the Sanctuary fully supports the Private Members Bill being put forward by MP […]

Animal welfare charity, Remus Horse Sanctuary, will be participating in a new television documentary later this month following the research and meticulous management strategy implemented by its founder, Sue Burton, over the last four years effectively eradicating Laminitis from its yard. Laminitis and PPID are diseases every horse owner should know about, and the new […]

Tony is our newest goat at the Sanctuary and arrived with us mid-June. He was found straying on local roads and brought in to us by the RSPCA having suffered an horrendous injury to his mouth, which had been slashed from across his nose, causing it quite literally to hang off his face, poor chap. […]

It’s been a tough 6 months at Remus.  During the winter we dealt with the most appalling welfare cases and, at one point, I particularly remember standing in Dartford with a dead emaciated horse behind me, a mare stuck up to her belly in mud behind me and about 50 horses all in very poor […]

Holly’s baby was born at around 8.15pm on Friday 27 June 2014. She looks the spitting image of her Mum! And, unlike with Gracie and Jess, Holly is able to feed her foal and baby is suckling well. Holly and Gracie arrived at similar times earlier this year and really helped each other, offering comfort […]

This is Orchid’s heart-rending story as written by her previous owner. “Ah!  I am still a family member, because here they are at last! My dear human family. I thought they’d got lost! I wondered what all this was about, my rugs being packed, my old red grooming box (which belonged to my best friend […]

Gracie’s foal – Jess – was born at the Sanctuary on Wednesday 21 May 2014 at about 2.30pm in the afternoon.   The name was pulled out of a hat out of the many names given to us over our Open Day weekend and also those generated by Dengi Horse Food. We liked it because […]

The latest news from Horse and Country identifies that “Europe’s proposed new horse passport laws pose a serious risk to equine welfare, according to leading equine organisations.” Roly Owers, Chief Executive of World Horse Welfare has said, “The updated law being considered by the European Union, whilst making significant progress in some areas, simply fails […]