ASPCA Appropriate Horse Adoptable Horse of the Week: TJ

Welcome to Horse Illustrated’s weekly installment of the Appropriate Horse Adoptable Horse of the Week, provided in partnership with the ASPCA’s Appropriate Horse program. This week’s adoptable horse is TJ! Verify as soon as extra weekly for a mannequin new featured horse so you may uncover your Appropriate Horse.

Adoptable Horse: TJ, a 6-year-old, 16.3hh Thoroughbred gelding
Group: CANTER Michigan, Dexter, Mich.

Get to Know Adoptable Horse TJ

Landing Jesus “TJ”is attractive 6-year-old hunk that reveals promise as a aggressive agility companion or a therapy horse. He’s looking for his good companion to proceed his educating for a mannequin new journey.

Floor Manners: TJ is good, very kind, and aims to please. He’ll in all probability be dealt with by nearly anybody. Actually, he was doing agility programs with a 9-year-old this earlier summer time season. Don’t let his 16.3 hand measurement idiot you, this gelding will change at your tempo.

Life-style: TJ lives exterior 24/7 and does appropriately all through the winter as long as he has shelter and a blanket, nonetheless he has been stalled beforehand. He’ll get together with mares and geldings, and is at the moment the horse in worth in his area of three. He’s not dominant all through the area in the slightest degree, solely a bit passive aggressive, and usually he appears to subscribe to the “sharing is caring” vibe which makes it straightforward to introduce horses to him. He ties, crossties, and is engaged on flooring tying. TJ likes to be scratched and brushed—largely by mild brushes, although. He’s good for the farrier nonetheless does want some lodging alongside alongside along with his ft. He at the moment lives in Scoot Boots with pads on the doorway, barefoot all through the as soon as extra, and is prospering with this setup. To take care of up his physique state of affairs, he’s on GutX which has made a vast distinction in his weight buy and regular correctly being and well-being.

Character: TJ is a smart outdated soul. This delicate large is as candy as will in all probability be. He’s cautious nonetheless courageous in his agility durations, and he has a sensitivity that will make him well-suited as a companion all through the wellness enterprise.

Suitability: TJ obtained proper right here to CANTER on August 14, 2022 with a slab fracture that required rehab. Veterinary prognosis stays unfavorable for return to athletic effectivity as a result of in depth hurt to the articular cartilage and osseous proliferation current. He would require long-term repairs of the precise center carpal joint. PLEASE NOTE: As a result of extent of his accidents, he’s solely provided to a non-riding house.

CANTER has centered nearly all of their time with him doing liberty work, and he has been excelling in his agility educating. As a part of his educating, TJ has furthermore been uncovered to wheelchairs, walkers, and canes to see how he might do with individuals who might have bodily disabilities, and he reveals promise for equine educating or therapy work. TJ has been competing with the Worldwide Agility Membership since September 2023. He competes of their Stroll Solely division and has superior to First Diploma in December 2023 the place he acquired a second place with a rating of 94/100. When encountering obstacles that he isn’t certain of, he stops and appears, nonetheless then will give it a strive! His favourite impediment is the curtain and he appears to love one of the best ways it feels as he walks by way of it.

TJ and his buddy Bachelor would make good equine facilitated studying (EFL) or equine facilitated psychotherapy (EFP) horses all by means of the wellness enterprise. They do very appropriately collectively as a unit and their coach might even see them tuning in and collaborating in wellness durations safely and with a implausible have an effect on.

TJ’s Stats

Foal Date: April 6, 2018
RRP Eligible: No
Microchipped: Sure

TJ’s Race Historic earlier

Full Begins: 19
Full Earnings: $50,608
Final Race: June 13, 2022

Adoption Info

Potential adopters should full an adoption software program program and be permitted by CANTER Michigan earlier to viewing and/or adopting a horse. Please overview their adoption course of and full an software program program correct proper right here. There isn’t a value or obligation, and approval applies to all horses all through the CANTER Michigan program. Please phrase that ending an software program program merely isn’t a assure of approval. CANTER Michigan recommends a PPE. All low value presents thought-about for licensed adopters.

ASPCA Appropriate Horse

ASPCA Appropriate Horse is the net adoption platform of The Appropriate Horse Initiative, a bunch of equine enterprise and welfare professionals and advocates working collectively to spice up the lives of horses in transition. A program of the ASPCA, their objective is to massively improve horse adoption inside the USA. To go looking extra adoptable horses and foster horses, go to www.myrighthorse.org. To be taught extra about The Appropriate Horse, a program of the ASPCA, go to www.aspcarighthorse.org.