Shelby Lockhart is a boutique owner, a Utah hairstylist, and a horse owner. Mamba was raised by Shelby and was her “heart horse.” Mamba gave birth to an adorable foal, but was taken two weeks later with a brain aneurysm. Shelby was left with a broken heart and the little orphaned foal. After Mamba’s death, Shelby attempted to bottle-feed the foal. The orphaned foal steadfastly refused any milk replacer. They knew they had to do something fast. Sadly, another mare had recently lost her baby. Because the mare was still lactating, they brought the orphaned foal to her. @shelbylockhart when I tell you I cried like a baby watching this #horses #foal #slyebydesign ♬ Good Horses (feat. Miranda Lambert) – Lainey Wilson After a slight hesitation, the foal began nursing from the mare. The fostering was a success. The mare has a new baby to care for, and the orphaned foal has a new Mom. They will remain together until the foal is weaned. @shelbylockhart Replying to @Diane Karcher It’s like watching a miracle unfold. Two innocent animals facing heartbreak and tragedy, but finding each other and expressing nothing but love #horses #foal #slyebydesign ♬ I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing – Madison Malone The process of introducing an orphaned foal to a grieving mare is known as grafting. It isn’t always so straightforward and can sometimes take weeks for the two foster animals to bond. Successful grafting can be aided by employing techniques developed by an equine theriogenologist. Although Shelby’s foal was orphaned due to the death of her mother, Mamba, not all orphans are created by death. There are cases where a mother may reject a foal or experience an inability to lactate. A foal can be orphaned if the mother develops an illness, is injured, or is separated during an emergency. In all cases, attempting a grafting is preferable to hand-raising. If you would like to keep track of this adoption story, please follow Shelby on TikTok. If the video taken after 24 hours is an indication, the mare and foal have already formed a bond. Please share. You can find the source of this story’s featured image here. The post The Moment This Orphaned Foal Is Accepted By A Foster Mom Will Bring You To Tears appeared first on InspireMore.

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Tears for Fears formed in Bath, Somerset in 1981, when Curt Smith and Roland Orzabal, having previously played together in the mod-influenced band Graduate, decided to launch a project rooted in the ideas of primal therapy. Influenced by synth-pop and artists like Talking Heads, OMD, and Soft Cell, they quickly attracted attention for melding introspective, psychology-inspired lyrics with a sophisticated electronic sound. They signed to Mercury Records and released their first tracks, “Suffer the Children” and “Pale Shelter,” in 1981–82, which laid the groundwork for their distinctive style and lyrical depth. Their debut album, The Hurting (1983), topped the UK The post Complete List Of Tears For Fears Songs From A to Z appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

Right up front, I’m going to say that there is no single, correct answer to the question posed in the title. Before pet lovers descend upon the comments section in true explosive social media style, I am going to say that I am a pet lover myself, albeit a pragmatic and practical one. I am a farm girl, after all! I know that most pet owners are not going to agree with some of my comments and suggestions here. My advice? Think of this article as a tool, like a whetstone, to sharpen your thinking and your SHTF plan according to your own values. We’re going to take a look at pet ownership according to the four levels of SHTF as described by Daisy in this excellent article. However, I’m mainly going to focus on preparation for an all-out SHTF, because I think that will be most useful to folks. Level One: Personal Emergencies As Daisy describes in this article, life happens to us all, and these emergencies are often financial in nature. When it comes to your pets, how well prepared are you to weather a financial storm? Checklist items here could be how much food you have set aside. Are you using sales and any coupons available to reduce your costs? If money is extremely tight, are you aware of food banks for pets in your area, or which food banks carry pet food? It is best to be prepared. If your pet takes any medications, do you have an extra month or two on hand at all times?  Despite being in a low-income situation, one of my top priorities each month is to build my emergency fund. I can’t tell you how much better I feel having that in place each month, as compared to using credit to weather my storms. Do what you need to do to make this happen. Cut what you need to cut. The time is now. Level Two: Short-Term Situations The examples Daisy gives in her article are not life-threatening, but last for a few days: a blizzard where the power goes out or a broken water main that causes you to be without water for a few days. Consider all of the needs of your pets. Have you factored their water needs into the amount of water you have stored onsite? Have you imagined the worst-case scenario, where the power goes out in the midst of the hottest summer ever, and you are without air conditioning? How much water will you need then?  If you are well prepared for Level One, then you should have enough food on hand to weather this short term situation. What if your pet has highly specialized medical needs, however? I had a friend who gave her cat IV fluids for kidney disease. Her vet had recommended that she store the bags in the fridge. If you have a pet with specialized needs, what is your plan to keep what you need ready to use over a period of a few days, with no water or electricity available? Level Three: Manmade and Natural Disasters What is added at this level, as Daisy describes it, is the potentially life-threatening nature of the situation. You may have massive flooding, or it may be a wildfire, or perhaps a chemical spill. There could be circumstances in which bugging in is safest, or circumstances where fleeing is your only option. It is worthwhile to run through a number of scenarios to reflect on what you might do. If a disaster occurs while you are away from home, is your rendezvous point for the family at your home, where your pets are located? What if that area is not safe? Does your pet have its own bug-out bag? How many pounds or cans of food is it reasonable to contain in that? Can the pet carry its own bag, or have you spread its materials throughout the family bags? How able is your pet to be on the move? If you don’t know, is there some way that you could get more information on its strengths and limitations? If you have more than one pet, your thinking would need to extend to each of them and their own unique abilities and needs. Level Four: All-Out SHTF The nature of an all-out SHTF is its extreme nature and longevity. It could be different things: we are all in a long-term, slow-burning SHTF right now. It could be a hurricane that takes out the power for a year, as Daisy says, or perhaps war or even nuclear winter. What you can count on in this scenario is that your supplies will run out. You must depend on yourself, whether that be raising and hunting what food you need, or trading for it (a risky venture).  If your pet food stash runs out, how familiar are you with what human foods your animal can eat?  Dogs can eat most meats that humans can eat, and even grains such as corn and quinoa. Most people know that dogs can’t eat chocolate, which is toxic to them, but did you know that macadamia nuts are extremely poisonous to them? And almonds are potentially dangerous? Being well informed about what human foods your dog can eat could help it survive when standard pet food is not available. Here’s a link to a great article with details about what human foods dogs can and can’t eat by the American Kennel Club. You can also access a free e-book here on emergency first aid for dogs. Cats can eat fewer human foods, as their diet needs to be mainly meat. Any non-meat treats need to be carefully rationed. For example, although broccoli is known to be a good vegetable for improving their stool if a cat has constipation or diarrhea, you should be aware that just a tiny half-inch square cube once or twice a week is all that is required! And be sure that it is cooked, too.  Uncooked vegetables that are helpful cooked, like broccoli or pumpkin, could cause an obstruction that could be fatal if they are fed to your kitty uncooked. Check out this veterinarian-authored article to learn more about how to feed your cat human foods, and what foods it absolutely should NOT eat.  Mental preparedness is key for these higher-level disasters. It is worthwhile to think through various scenarios and the needs of your pet. In a long-term SHTF where you have been forced to flee your home and your beloved preps, what are the advantages and disadvantages of being on the run with your dog, for example? Your dog could provide life-saving protection by alerting you to hostile threats, or even help to fight them off. Have you thought through how you might feed your canine companion in the absence of a pet food store? How much of your own food are you willing to give up for him or her? Keep in mind that you will not know when the disaster will end.  In terms of a cat, if you are bugging in, they could provide highly valuable vermin control. However, if your cat is declawed or a terrible mouser to begin with (like my Aunt’s cat!), then will it earn its keep in meat? Your cat may be much smaller and eat less than a dog, but it can’t walk along like a dog can if you are on the run. Do you have a way to carry your cat if you need to flee, such as a lightweight fabric pack? Considering the possibility of being on the move or having transportation could help you be better prepared for anything. Many people will feel that the companionship of their pet more than earns its keep. They might prepare differently than folks who take a pragmatic approach, like on the farm, where everyone earns their keep. Where would you draw the line? Consider if your preps reflect this line and if you have what you need to save the life of your pet in an extreme SHTF.  Dr. Patrick Jones of The Homegrown Herbalist is a licensed veterinarian and naturopath. His website offers many examples of remarkable herbal canine life-saving treatments (cayenne pepper) and wound healing (comfrey, plantain, and other plants) that you could find both inspiring and informative.  CAUTION: THIS LINK CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGES OF DOG WOUNDS  Final Thoughts In my own life, I don’t just think about SHTF and live in that. I live for today. Although I choose not to have pets at this time in my life, I have had pets that I loved very much. I believe that being happy today can also be considered a prep. So, having a pet that helps you maintain your mental health could be a crucial prep for many, no matter what challenges are faced during an all-out SHTF.  SHTF and Your Pets: How Ready Are You? Whether your pet is a liability or an asset during SHTF could depend partly on how prepared you are today. Are you ready for SHTF with your pet? Why or why not? Do you have a helpful preparation tip you can share with us? Please tell us in the comments section. About Rowan Rowan O’Malley is a fourth-generation Irish American who loves all things green: plants (especially shamrocks), trees, herbs, and weeds! She challenges herself daily to live her best life and to be as fit, healthy, and prepared as possible. The post Pets in SHTF: Benefit or Liability? appeared first on The Organic Prepper.

When gray-haired white liberals take to America’s streets for “No Kings” protests, the only danger they’re exposing themselves to is ridicule. But what happens when progressive protesters head to a foreign war zone? Last weekend, the “Global March to Gaza” found out. Thousands flocked from wealthy European countries like Ireland and Luxembourg, joined by activists from the developing world as well. They planned to get into Gaza through Egypt, evading Israel’s blockade—but it was the Egyptians who turned the marchers away. It turns out the locals didn’t take kindly to strangers involving themselves in the high-stakes politics of the neighborhood. Egyptian authorities confiscated passports and phones, arrested some marchers, and gave them all the chilliest of receptions in the blazing desert heat. Nor were police the only ones giving the wealthy white would-be saviors of Palestine a hard time: Throngs of ordinary Egyptians shouted abuse and tussled with the clueless do-gooders. In Gaza, the marchers might have far faced worse. A similar pro-Palestine effort is in dire trouble hundreds of miles away: A thousand protesters from North Africa are held up in Libya, where the France 24 news network reports they have “no access to food, water, or medicine and communications severely disrupted” and organizers say they’re under “systemic siege.” Those activists hail from places like Algeria, Mauritania, Morocco, and Tunisia—now imagine the pale faces from the “No Kings” crowd in that situation. Egypt might as well be Madison, Wisconsin, by comparison, yet Gaza makes even Libya seem serene. Getting packed onto buses and deported from Egypt is the kindest thing that could have happened to European leftists trying to tour a war zone. Protests are inane enough in the West, but when Antifa isn’t around and they don’t devolve into riots against law enforcement, they’re a safe enough recreation for liberals who want to imagine they’re “doing something.” Yet outside the comfortable confines of the Western world that protesters so often denounce as intolerably unjust, pastimes like theirs can and do get people killed. Perhaps back home in Luxembourg a few of Gaza’s self-appointed paladins will reflect on how lucky they are? Maybe instead of protesting against immigration restrictions next time, they’ll give thought to making sure Europe doesn’t become more like troubled North Africa? Don’t bet on it. It’s a basic trait of the Western progressive that he (or she, or whatever the pronoun) believes both that the West is the guiltiest, most racist, most imperialistic part of the world and also that Westerners like him (or her, etc.) understand exactly what the rest of the world needs and are just the ones to deliver it. Western progressive moralizing is the most imperialist thing of all today, especially when presenting itself as anti-imperialist or “anti-colonial.” And when people like the Egyptians, who actually know a thing or two about experiencing imperialism—and at times perpetrating it, too—tell Europe’s or America’s wannabe white messiahs they aren’t welcome, how do the protesters react? Instead of singing a merry “99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall” while the bus hauls them away to be deported, they can be heard in a video shared on X chanting, “F— you, Israel! F— you, Egypt!” How dare the Egyptians deport such well-meaning foreign interlopers? It’s as if they think they get to set the rules in their country, no matter how enlightened Europeans feel about it. The Egyptians have the best of reasons not to want the West’s most naive leftists marching through their territory on their way to Gaza. Egypt can hardly afford to make an enemy out of Israel at a time when Israel is dealing harshly with enemies. And Egypt can’t take in an influx of Gazans without making Gaza’s problems, including Hamas, its own. But liberal meddling knows no borders, and progressives who want the world’s population to come to the United States and Europe also want the world’s governments to cater to their own WEIRD values: that is, “Western, Educated, Industrial, Rich and Democratic.” The WEIRDos are wrong when they’re out on the streets of America’s cities. And they’re dead wrong when they interfere in foreign crises they don’t understand—though, thanks to the Egyptian authorities they now hate, at least this lot isn’t simply dead. “No Kings” is an old-fashioned message; today what we need is no more royally entitled protesters. COPYRIGHT 2025 CREATORS.COM We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post WEIRD Protesters Should Stay Home appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Right up front, I’m going to say that there is no single, correct answer to the question posed in the title. Before pet lovers descend upon the comments section in true explosive social media style, I am going to say that I am a pet lover myself, albeit a pragmatic and practical one. I am a farm girl, after all! I know that most pet owners are not going to agree with some of my comments and suggestions here. My advice? Think of this article as a tool, like a whetstone, to sharpen your thinking and your SHTF plan according to your own values. We’re going to take a look at pet ownership according to the four levels of SHTF as described by Daisy in this excellent article. However, I’m mainly going to focus on preparation for an all-out SHTF, because I think that will be most useful to folks. Level One: Personal Emergencies As Daisy describes in this article, life happens to us all, and these emergencies are often financial in nature. When it comes to your pets, how well prepared are you to weather a financial storm? Checklist items here could be how much food you have set aside. Are you using sales and any coupons available to reduce your costs? If money is extremely tight, are you aware of food banks for pets in your area, or which food banks carry pet food? It is best to be prepared. If your pet takes any medications, do you have an extra month or two on hand at all times?  Despite being in a low-income situation, one of my top priorities each month is to build my emergency fund. I can’t tell you how much better I feel having that in place each month, as compared to using credit to weather my storms. Do what you need to do to make this happen. Cut what you need to cut. The time is now. Level Two: Short-Term Situations The examples Daisy gives in her article are not life-threatening, but last for a few days: a blizzard where the power goes out or a broken water main that causes you to be without water for a few days. Consider all of the needs of your pets. Have you factored their water needs into the amount of water you have stored onsite? Have you imagined the worst-case scenario, where the power goes out in the midst of the hottest summer ever, and you are without air conditioning? How much water will you need then?  If you are well prepared for Level One, then you should have enough food on hand to weather this short term situation. What if your pet has highly specialized medical needs, however? I had a friend who gave her cat IV fluids for kidney disease. Her vet had recommended that she store the bags in the fridge. If you have a pet with specialized needs, what is your plan to keep what you need ready to use over a period of a few days, with no water or electricity available? Level Three: Manmade and Natural Disasters What is added at this level, as Daisy describes it, is the potentially life-threatening nature of the situation. You may have massive flooding, or it may be a wildfire, or perhaps a chemical spill. There could be circumstances in which bugging in is safest, or circumstances where fleeing is your only option. It is worthwhile to run through a number of scenarios to reflect on what you might do. If a disaster occurs while you are away from home, is your rendezvous point for the family at your home, where your pets are located? What if that area is not safe? Does your pet have its own bug-out bag? How many pounds or cans of food is it reasonable to contain in that? Can the pet carry its own bag, or have you spread its materials throughout the family bags? How able is your pet to be on the move? If you don’t know, is there some way that you could get more information on its strengths and limitations? If you have more than one pet, your thinking would need to extend to each of them and their own unique abilities and needs. Level Four: All-Out SHTF The nature of an all-out SHTF is its extreme nature and longevity. It could be different things: we are all in a long-term, slow-burning SHTF right now. It could be a hurricane that takes out the power for a year, as Daisy says, or perhaps war or even nuclear winter. What you can count on in this scenario is that your supplies will run out. You must depend on yourself, whether that be raising and hunting what food you need, or trading for it (a risky venture).  If your pet food stash runs out, how familiar are you with what human foods your animal can eat?  Dogs can eat most meats that humans can eat, and even grains such as corn and quinoa. Most people know that dogs can’t eat chocolate, which is toxic to them, but did you know that macadamia nuts are extremely poisonous to them? And almonds are potentially dangerous? Being well informed about what human foods your dog can eat could help it survive when standard pet food is not available. Here’s a link to a great article with details about what human foods dogs can and can’t eat by the American Kennel Club. You can also access a free e-book here on emergency first aid for dogs. Cats can eat fewer human foods, as their diet needs to be mainly meat. Any non-meat treats need to be carefully rationed. For example, although broccoli is known to be a good vegetable for improving their stool if a cat has constipation or diarrhea, you should be aware that just a tiny half-inch square cube once or twice a week is all that is required! And be sure that it is cooked, too.  Uncooked vegetables that are helpful cooked, like broccoli or pumpkin, could cause an obstruction that could be fatal if they are fed to your kitty uncooked. Check out this veterinarian-authored article to learn more about how to feed your cat human foods, and what foods it absolutely should NOT eat.  Mental preparedness is key for these higher-level disasters. It is worthwhile to think through various scenarios and the needs of your pet. In a long-term SHTF where you have been forced to flee your home and your beloved preps, what are the advantages and disadvantages of being on the run with your dog, for example? Your dog could provide life-saving protection by alerting you to hostile threats, or even help to fight them off. Have you thought through how you might feed your canine companion in the absence of a pet food store? How much of your own food are you willing to give up for him or her? Keep in mind that you will not know when the disaster will end.  In terms of a cat, if you are bugging in, they could provide highly valuable vermin control. However, if your cat is declawed or a terrible mouser to begin with (like my Aunt’s cat!), then will it earn its keep in meat? Your cat may be much smaller and eat less than a dog, but it can’t walk along like a dog can if you are on the run. Do you have a way to carry your cat if you need to flee, such as a lightweight fabric pack? Considering the possibility of being on the move or having transportation could help you be better prepared for anything. Many people will feel that the companionship of their pet more than earns its keep. They might prepare differently than folks who take a pragmatic approach, like on the farm, where everyone earns their keep. Where would you draw the line? Consider if your preps reflect this line and if you have what you need to save the life of your pet in an extreme SHTF.  Dr. Patrick Jones of The Homegrown Herbalist is a licensed veterinarian and naturopath. His website offers many examples of remarkable herbal canine life-saving treatments (cayenne pepper) and wound healing (comfrey, plantain, and other plants) that you could find both inspiring and informative.  CAUTION: THIS LINK CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGES OF DOG WOUNDS  Final Thoughts In my own life, I don’t just think about SHTF and live in that. I live for today. Although I choose not to have pets at this time in my life, I have had pets that I loved very much. I believe that being happy today can also be considered a prep. So, having a pet that helps you maintain your mental health could be a crucial prep for many, no matter what challenges are faced during an all-out SHTF.  SHTF and Your Pets: How Ready Are You? Whether your pet is a liability or an asset during SHTF could depend partly on how prepared you are today. Are you ready for SHTF with your pet? Why or why not? Do you have a helpful preparation tip you can share with us? Please tell us in the comments section. About Rowan Rowan O’Malley is a fourth-generation Irish American who loves all things green: plants (especially shamrocks), trees, herbs, and weeds! She challenges herself daily to live her best life and to be as fit, healthy, and prepared as possible. The post Pets in SHTF: Benefit or Liability? appeared first on The Organic Prepper.

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