At least once a week, we get a call about a horse in need. Often they are performance horses, working horses that are aging or injured and can no longer perform in their career. These horses have a strong work ethic and have been imprinted at birth to work with people, used to interacting daily with their human partners. These are not horses you can "put out to pasture". 

Even though the picture of the horse grazing on the green grass in the large open meadow is a pretty one, to these horses, out to pasture equals abandonment. They feel rejected, shamed and lonely. They need people and a purpose. They certainly don't deserve to be euthanized either. Yet these are the 2 most common outcomes for aging or injured horses. 

OTRA MAS was founded out of the need for a place that could take these aging, injured or abandoned horses in, rehabilitate them and retrain them for a new life’s purpose. Once given the opportunity to transition and heal, the horses that come to OTRA MAS become therapy horses in our Equine Assisted Therapy and Learning programs. In their new roles, these horses are given the chance to be happy, useful and well cared for while having a meaningful “second life” giving back to the community. With a new home on our beautiful six-acre ranch, a new horse and human herd to interact with daily, superior care and a new career, OTRA MAS gives horses that second chance at life, for most, their final chance.