Mission Statement

Buckshot’s Legacy: Shooting Star Stables and Equine Rescue, Inc.

Shooting Star Stables and Equine Rescue was founded and incorporated in August of 2007 by Careen Cain, LMSW, after privately providing equine rescue for 6 years in NE Kansas. Shooting Star is committed to caring for equines that come to us due to abuse, neglect or abandonment as well as for those at risk of imminent slaughter. Loving care is given to meet each equine’s need for proper medical treatment, individual nutritional needs and daily handling in an effort to provide the rehabilitation necessary in order to eventually place them in an approved adoptive home.

Several current residents that are quite elderly or who have come in with extensive needs now call Shooting Star their “forever home”.

Shooting Star also works with other Midwest rescues, providing rescue to rescue transfers when necessary in order to respond to the needs of equines in need of immediate placement.

By advocating on behalf of all equines that have passed through our gates as well as for those innocent lives that were lost before we could save them in time, Shooting Star strives to be involved in community education and awareness programs designed to:

  • Cooperate with other professionals and rescues in an effort to provide pamphlets, literature, and training regarding equine needs and standards for appropriate care and owner responsibility.
  • Network with key individuals to better define and enforce policies and procedures regarding equine abuse/neglect as it relates to state statutes on animal cruelty.
  • Provide facts and statistics on the harsh realities of our equines being brutally slaughtered for human consumption in Europe and Japan.

Upcoming Plans:

  • To offer an exciting, new Equine Assisted Therapy program, which will allow rescue horses to be involved in the healing process with children and adults who may benefit from this increasingly popular and successful form of therapeutic intervention. Community referral sources may include area schools, mental health centers, foster and adoption programs as well as private therapists and individuals. Individual and group sessions will be offered.
  • To complete necessary paperwork to file for eligibility as a federal 501 C-3 non-profit rescue.
  • To create a steady source of donation support from the “Duni Dunit” paintings that can help to financially support the rescue efforts.

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