They say animals don’t poop where they sleep.
They apparently haven’t met the horses at Starry Skies Horse Sanctuary.
Anna’s Kindness student volunteers from Forsythe and Slauson middle schools spent some of their Saturday morning sifting out horse poop from what doubled as the sandy sleeping quarters in the back barn at the horse rescue. The horses remained out in the yard while the volunteers filled bucket after bucket with poop, cleaning the barn thoroughly until all that remained was a comfortable blanket of sand and hay for sleeping.
Once it was clean, the horses began to return to inspect their fresh digs as the students groomed, petted and fed them cookies.
The poop removal was the last of a series of tasks performed by Forsythe’s Gavin Morris, Madeline Clarke, Huck Amick, Pavel Hristov, Ivy Ball, Heather Hale, and Slauson’s Keegan Fraley.
Pavel, Ivy, and Madeline began their morning sweeping out the aisles of the main barn, while Heather and Keegan took turns dusting out the cobwebs from the rafters. Huck and Gavin went inside one of the chicken coops to clean up the floor, while the chickens huddled in the corner and watched.
The team then moved to the back barn on the ranch to rake up the poop, and once clean, a few of them ventured out into the muck — two days of rain will do that to the yard — to groom a few of the feeding horses. But they all returned — horses and children — when they heard that cookies were being handed out in the barn. Woohoo, cookies.
Thank you to Christine, Kate and Paul for helping co-host this opportunity, and a big thanks to Bridget and Starry Skies for allowing our students to come out and help with your terrific mission.
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