This is what we were.  This is what we need to be again.
Starfire and I met 27 years ago.  
I've been his person and he's been my horse - for 27 years.  

For me, animals are healers and teachers, and Starfire has taught me about passion for life and for living.  Recently we left our home where he lived with me for 17 years.  This loss has put him in trauma.  He's lost over 100 lbs.  He is failing because of our circumstance.  And we can remedy it.  Here's our story...
When we met I didn't know that he was scheduled to go to slaughter the next day because he had been labeled "dangerous."  I also didn't know that he was being physiclly abused.  All I saw was a magical litle horse who called me over to visit.  There was even a peacock living in his stall.  When the stable workers asked me if I wanted to ride him, my answer was immediate - "Of course!" 
When they got him out of his stall, that's when I saw his skellatal frame with no hair on his hind quarters from infection.   They led him over to saddle him up and right away grabbed him by the ears, threw him to the ground and held him down by anchoring thier knees into his neck.  As he flailed they shoved the bit into his mouth then let him up, bridled.  As they threw a big Western saddle into the air hoping it would land on his back, panic sent him jumping and rearing, so they tied a tie-down rope from his nose band between his front legs and pulled it tight to hold his nose down to his chest.  He continued to rear with his head tied down and reared over backwards and flailed on the ground - all the while the men threw the saddle up hoping it would hit the bony target.

I had bonded with the little horse, had ridden all my life, and this was an Arabian.   They "know."  They "see" who is who.  I told the men to get away from him and give me a leg up - bareback.  They did, and the little horse and I rode away.

It was the most magical ride I had ever had - like riding a little carousel horse or a unicorn.  He was green-broke and had no concept of what a trail was.  We rode through the brush and up and down the hills in the Chatsworth mountains trotting and dancing the whole way.

When we arrived back at the stables, the stable owner met me screaming "That horse is crazy!  You could have been killed!"  I was shocked.  My thought was "No... all these men here are 'crazy'.  The horse is fine."  I got off.  Returned the little horse to the men and left.

I felt an empty type of shock.  This horse was so special, so communicative, sensitive...  The phone rang.  It was the little horse's owner, a young woman who told me the slaughter truck was coming to get him tomorrow.  She had heard I rode him; "No one can get near him, do you want him?"  

I knew that out of all the horses in the world he was meant for me and out of all the people in the world, I was meant to be his.  "Yes."  

When I got the papers from her, they showed he's a Registered Arabian with double Bask. Bask is the world's top Arabian World Champion, and this little throw away horse had Bask on both sides of his blood line.  That was amazing, but not important. What was was important and what mattered was the spirit of life and the lessons we were to share in the next 27 years together. Starfire and I have been together for 27 years.  The last 17 years, he lived with me and his miniature horse companion in my backyard on a beautiful hill in a magical eucalyptis grove.  

We evacuated together during the Malibu fire storms.

He woke me up in the morning by coming to the bedroom window.  

But circumstances changed, we don't have the house anymore, and Starfire is being boarded at a place where he is very unhappy, nervous and in trauma from losing his home.  He has lost over 100 lbs in one month.  The horse in the pen next to him charges and bites chuncks of skin off of his neck.  Starfire has ripped his nose open and suffered a sinus infection.  He paces when the other ranch horses move to a position where he can't see them, he's very tense and doesn't eat.  We must move Starfire right away.  He deserves to be in a supportive sanctuary for his retirement.

Safe Haven Equine Rescue and Retirement wants him.  They are the "real deal" rescuing mustangs, Premarin mares, race-track nurse-mare foals...  The thrown away horses there are "fat and happy."  It's managed by my friend, Ginny Wiltsey, is located in NC in the same city where I will be staying.  I'm from the South.  My heart is there.  Starfire and his companion, Mini HaHa, and I all will go there together to be home. 

As for me, I'm Megan Blake.  I'm an actress and have spent all of my available time working to help animals.  I can't not help animals.  It's in my DNA.  I hosted a TV series for pets on PBS, "Animal Attractions TV" that won an Honorary Mention at the Humane Society of the United States Genesis Awards, and I now have a Radio show on Pet Life Radio with my spokes-dog, Super Smiley which has also won a Genesis Awards Honorary Mention.  We have a Kindness Program with inner city kids, the Super Smiley Project, Teaching Kids Kindness Through Animals, and we just created a Super Smiley Kindness PSA with the University of GA.   And... Super Smiley is the K9 Ambassador of Kindness for State Farm and for The Animal Film Festival!  We pay it forward.  

Now Starfire needs help.  We urgently need help to get the money to move them.  Starfire is 30 years old and has lost over 100 lbs.  Arabians can easily live to be 38 so "his time" is not yet here.  On the contrary, he and Mini HaHa can participate in our equine Kindness program and equine therapy when they are settled in NC.  And, Super Smiley works as a Pet Partners Therapy Dog in NC.  We all will continue to pay it forward.  

We need the money now for a professional, safe horse trailer, driver, barn/lodging on the cross US trip, medical checks and certificates to get Starfire and Mini HaHa to their Sanctuary in NC where they will be care-taken by people trained to help them relax and thrive. I will be there too. 

This means life for Starfire.  It means my heart to me.  He may die soon if we don't get him to the right place.  He means the world to me.  For me animals are healers and teachers.  Starfire has taught me about passion for life and for living.  Thank you for helping us.  I will be eternally thankful to each of you.  No donation is too small and all of you are appreciated so  much. 

Special Incintives for larger donations:
For each $250. donation, you will recieve an autoghraphed DVD of one of these films:
As an actress, I starred in the Sci-Fi film, Eyeborgs, opposite Adrian Paul, "The Highlander."  And I acted opposite Mickey Rooney in "Lost Stallions," which was Mickey Rooney's last film about horses. 

For each $500. donation, you wilI be invited to be a guest on Pet Life Radio, the largest Pet Radio Network in the world.  I host an Award Winning show, "A Super Smiley Adventure," on Pet Life Radio and my guests include some of the  world's top animal advocates and pet lovin' Academy Award Winners like Hilary Swank and Lewis Gossett Jr.

For each $1,000. donation you will receive an autographed copy of the Eyeborgs script. 

If you are in the position to be able to donate the entire $5,000, you will receive all of the above and our trip will be dedicated to you on social media and on Pet Life Radio.
Thank you all.  May you all have beautiful full lives with your animals and may they teach you everlasting lessons...

Megan, Starfire and Mini HaHa   

(c)2016 Megan Blake