Welcome to Horse Illustrated’s weekly installment of the Right Horse Adoptable Horse of the Week, offered in partnership with the ASPCA’s Right Horse program. This week’s adoptable horse is Junebug! Check back weekly for a new featured horse so you can find your Right Horse.

Adoptable Horse: Junebug, an 18-year-old, 15.1hh Tennessee Walking Horse mare
Organization: Easy R Equine Rescue, Lubbock, Texas

Get to Know Adoptable Horse Junebug

Junebug was seized by the Lubbock County Sheriff’s Department from an owner who wasn’t providing her proper nutrition and care. Easy R doesn’t have her papers but she is a registered Tennessee Walking Horse.

Shortly after coming to Easy R, Junebug started showing neurological symptoms and was diagnosed with equine protozoal myeloencephalitis (EPM). She was treated with two different medications over the course of a year. She still shows signs of residual neurological damage from the disease, but she has not had an acute flareup in a few years.

Junebug is at a wonderful foster home grazing on several acres with her good friend, Gabe (another Easy R rescue horse). She is a beautiful horse without a mean bone in her body. She can be a little difficult to catch when she is out on a large pasture, but once she is haltered, she is well-behaved. She is a bit anxious about new things and environments, and gets nervous when separated from her friend Gabe. Easy R calls her “quirky”, but in a good way. Because of the EPM, it would not be safe for her to be ridden. But she would make a great companion horse. Because of her strong bond with Gabe (Easy R calls them the “odd couple”), they are really hoping they can adopt them out together to a home where they can be beautiful pasture ornaments.

Contact Easy R Equine Rescue today about ASPCA Right Horse Adoptable Horse of the Week, Junebug!

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ASPCA Right Horse is the online adoption platform of The Right Horse Initiative, a collection of equine industry and welfare professionals and advocates working together to improve the lives of horses in transition. A program of the ASPCA, their goal is to massively increase horse adoption in the United States. To find more adoptable horses and foster horses, visit www.myrighthorse.org. To learn more about The Right Horse, a program of the ASPCA, visit www.aspcarighthorse.org.