The Colorado Horsecare Foodbank has produced a video, funded by a grant from the American Society of Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) on training horses for evacuation during natural disasters.

In 2012 and 2013, Colorado was hit with multiple natural disasters, including wildfires that burned a quarter million acres and floods that spanned 200 miles and 17 counties, explained Juliana Lehman, Colorado Horsecare Foodbank executive director and founder.

“After those natural disasters, hay was either burned up, washed away to Kansas, or ruined and molding, and horses and livestock were starving,” she said

That’s when Colorado Horsecare Foodbank got into disaster relief out of necessity, Lehman said. In 2013 alone, the nonprofit organization transported and distributed more than 1,300 tons of emergency hay to keep horses fed after those natural disasters