By james art 
The impact of wild fires in Los Angeles can have a lasting effect here, as many displaced people are likely to look for new homes in Arizona.
But what about animals? Where will they go? A local therapy farm offers its barns, volunteers and love and say that they receive more than enough in return.
Their names are Patrick, Presley and Phantom.
“The horses from the murder pen, do you know that they are frowning in their eyes, they are scared, they are horrified.”
Laura Hurd is a retired therapist who is now voluntary to have her time with horses. She said the three were rescued from a slaughterhouse in Texas, rehabilitated at the Pierce College in Los Angeles, and the most recently provided with a new home on Scottsdale’s Hunkapi farms.
“And you just get up and love them, and they just approached us and they just raised their heads against ours and we put their hands and we talk to them,” Hurd said.
“It is as if everything will be fine. You’re in a great place. We will straighten your wounds, we will straighten your heart. “
The rumor and volunteer associate Victor McBride has recently returned from the devastation with the three new horses in the draw.
“We saw Dima move, there was certainly fog throughout the city and we knew it was a very serious situation.”
McBrid is a former firefighter who now has a construction company and voluntarily provides its free time to the facility.
“I just want to spend a few minutes, just to feed the horses, hang out with them and love them, hug them. And that makes everything so calm at the end of the long work day, “McBride said.
Hunkapi is a 10 -acre farm specializing in animal rescue and sometimes human rescue. It has been owned and ruled by Terra Shaad since 1995.
“The mission is to learn the world to fear less and to love more. And we do this in many different ways, but above all we are a program for therapy for horses, “Shaad said.
“We save animals that are used in this program and then make countless other events on the farm to help connect people from their heads to their toes.”
For Shaad, observing the burning of La Fires was a call for action to do something for horses. Initially, they went out to donate food for a horse shelter there.
“I know a lot of people go out to people, we certainly – our hearts are with them. But we are, we use animals in our program, so I knew that our hearts had to go to help horses. “Said Shaad.” Dogs get a lot of attention, horses don’t get much attention. “
Shaad, who already has more than 30 horses on his farm, wants to return to southern California to get more.
“They live in pens. They have red strings around their necks with numbers. And so they are still looking for and trying to find and find and return their horses to their homes. They are still 40 to 70 there. “
Hurd and McBride say as much as it helps horses, it helps their new viewers just as much.
“It is so perfect for us that we can give them a second chance in life, a second career. Even if it’s just a horseback horse, they deserve it, “Hurd said.
“I passed a program called Save Warrior years ago and the nucleus of it was a dig. And that really helped just relieve all kinds of fire truck. “
McBride believes that caring care also takes care of him.
“It allowed me to re -connect with the world around me. And forget, it’s just not for work every day, but for life every day. And I think the stressful aspect is just completely lifted and gone. “