Press / Toby Wells in the News

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Contact: Adrienne Wells Castaneda 619-302-7266

Blue Apple Ranch Offers a Forever Home to Farrah & Dharma - two horses
from the galloping herd of equines roaming the paved streets of Chula Vista

Ramona, CA, March 29, 2010-0n the morning of Wednesday, March 24,2010, manes
and tails were flying, as a herd of horses galloped a long the paved streets of Chula Vista,
a San Diego suburb, through a parking lot, fields and an Olympic training center for up to
two hours before a mustachioed cowboy herded them back to the ranch.
Volunteers from Blue Apple Ranch, anew non-profit division of Toby Wells
Foundation, worked directly with animal officers from the San Diego Humane Society to
provide health check-ups, immediate care and transportation for two of the roaming
equines to their new permanent home in Ramona at the Blue Apple Ranch_
In addition to this rescue, the Blue Apple Ranch encourages and supports
programs that provide a quality-of-life difference for people and animals. The Blue
Apple Ranch founded in October, 2009, is focused on enriching Lives through the rescue,
rehabilitation, and compassionate care of at-risk equines while providing education,
public awareness and therapeutic activities for people and horses alike.
Blue Apple Ranch, in its first year of operation, has worked directly with local
animal care agencies, members of the community and other non-profit organizations to
provide permanent homes to over 75 San Diego horses and is a founding member of the
newly founded San Diego Equine Safety Net Coalition, a professional group of Local
equine rescue organizations, veterinary practitioners and members of the community
focused on building a brighter future for San Diego's horses, funded with a generous
grant from ASPCA from the estate of the Late San Diego animal advocate, Edith Hakes.