Press / Toby Wells in the News

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Adrienne Wells Castaneda 619-302-7266

Blue Apple Ranch works directly with local professional affected by economic
hardship to provide homes for hungry horses

Ramona, CA, August 25, 2010- Earlier this week, Blue Apple Ranch was contacted by a
local veterinarian requesting help for a local individual affected by economic hardship.
This long-term San Diego resident has worked in a professional capacity for a number of
years and until recently cared diligently for her equines. Unfortunately, the situation
worsened when she was affected by a recent lay-off This San Diego resident currently
has 16 horses and need an immediate home for the majority.
Volunteers from Blue Apple Ranch, a new non-profit division of Toby Wells
Foundation, worked directly with veterinary partners to provide assessments, on site care,
delivered medical supplies and feed, while offering a forever home for three of 16
equines.

In addition to assisting with this community intervention, Blue Apple Ranch
encourages and supports programs that provide a quality-of-life difference for people and
animals. The Blue Apple Ranch formed 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.