Captain Jack came to the Rescue as an owner surrender in January 2023.  He was named an awesome pirate name because he was born with one functioning eye.  He came from a loving family that was having trouble homing him.  He came basically as an unhandled 9 month old.  He is truly the sweetest boy.  He is willing to please and a fast learner. 

Shortly after coming to the rescue he was vet checked and diagnosed with microphthalmos (aka small eye: small globe with or without various other ocular anomalies).  He was vaccinated and gelded.  He has been haltered and is learning to stand tied and pick up his feet.  

His birthday is April 24, 2022.  We are getting ready to celebrate his first birthday with a party that is of course Pirate Themed!!!

He was haltered without difficulty in the first 15 minutes (yay!) and we loaded his mom to encourage him to load.  We wanted his first trailer experience to be a good one.  He had never been haltered, never been in a trailer, never been away from his mom... He had a lot of stressors this day.  We wanted the experience to be as least traumatic as possible.  He handled the whole thing like a champ.  We waited patiently for him to load and unload himself.  It was overall a very good experience for him.  He was very excited about all the other horses when he arrived.