About 32% of respondents to the American Horse Publications Industry Survey–sponsored by Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health and Pfizer Animal Health–said yes, at least one of the horses they currently own, manage, or lease had been given to them. And of those who said yes, only 3% were involved in some way with a rescue.

Wow! That was nearly 3,400 people who currently own horses that they take care of that were given to them. For whatever reason, the previous owner gave up that horse. It might have been out of financial necessity during these tough economic times, or it might have been because someone else could put the horse to work rather than it just standing around getting fat