The Dobbin Fund $10,000 Welcome Match
News almost as big as Dobbin himself and shared with all the love he ever received.
News almost as big as Dobbin himself and shared with all the love he ever received.
Together with you it is Tomten to the Rescue.
Thank you for your consideration in becoming a critical part of The Dobbin Fund where your gift will be matched dollar for dollar and go 100% to helping Tomten Farm and Sanctuary welcome our next senior equid in need.
If you didn't have the chance to catch all the details of the match on our website, we hope that seeing some of them here further acquaints you with this incredible opportunity and the impact you can make as a matched donor.
As we enter our second decade of providing peace, protection and possibility to animals in need we are thrilled to share some incredibly touching and forever impactful news! We have been offered a $10,000 match designed to help us welcome the senior equids who needs us.
Inspired by our much loved Belgian draft, Dobbin R. Bergerlind, with the generous support of The DEKM Fund, this year (2024) we are creating a very special program for senior equids (horses, ponies, donkeys and mules), the unwanted, unaffordable and unadoptable equids who have nowhere to go. The lost seniors who wish for nothing more than a home to call their own. It is to be called The Dobbin Fund after our beautiful draft who found a safe, soft landing at Tomten Farm and Sanctuary and touched so many hearts. Perhaps even yours.
Necessitated by the current need in the New England equine community and fueled by the many older lives we have welcomed, this program has the potential to allow us to make a bigger difference to needy equids than ever before.
The truth is, senior horses (ponies, donkeys and mules) experience tremendous need (far greater than their younger counterparts). That's because they are incredibly expensive to support and there are few rescues who can welcome them because they are almost impossible to rehome. If that were not enough of a challenge, prices for horse care (feed, bedding and vet care) have soared exponentially in this area and our veterinarian has noted that many owners/guardians are aging out of their ability to adequately care for their aged equids. Such a sad situation all around. Here in the North Country, there is also a scary and unprecedented shortage of large animal veterinarians. Combined, it all translates into more need than ever before. We know that together, with this generous gift, we can be more, do more and give more to the seniors in need of soft landing.
With you by our side, we can welcome some of these lives to Tomten. Yes, it will be one equid at a time but for those lives it will be everything. We fully understand that some may come to us for their final gift, a kind goodbye in the arms of people who care. Some may be with us for just a season, a time to experience the peace and comfort they need. Others could be with us a year or more, lives like Dobbin who wasn't expected to make the Winter and had three beautiful years of dreams come true thanks to people like you. But all will benefit from the end-of-life care they deserve -- warm beds, a loving embrace, appropriate food and top-quality veterinary care.
Just who is eligible? Any horse over 25 who finds themselves in real need. Breed, color, soundness and health are irrelevant. Welcomes will be determined by space and fund availability. And here is where you can help us make the most of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. This is our chance to be sure Dobbin's legacy lives on and the lives we welcome and that we can do our part to provide peace, protection and possibility to the seniors who have no place to go.
Because seniors are so expensive and require a much larger initial fund than their younger counterparts, The DEKM Fund is hoping this match means it will be easier to fundraise the intake goals for the first year and emergency year care for every senior life we welcome.
Should an animal pass, the remaining initial funds will be gifted as follows: to either a equid whose first-year care needs have gone beyond their allotted funds OR to welcome another life in need and therefore reduce the fundraising amount for that equid OR to assist an owner/guardian who cannot afford to provide their horse, pony, donkey or mule the kind passing they deserve.
We hope you will join us as we help another life on this magical journey. Your contribution of any amount makes a difference and will be 100% matched up to $10,000
Thank you for your consideration and for loving Dobbin and all the senior equids we have welcomed on this journey. May together with you and The DEKM Fund we make a larger impact than we have ever dreamed of.