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All P.C. wants for Christmas - help with a vet bill

By Shannon Sollinger

Ann Mercer, of Hamilton, would like to put her horse rescue foundation, the Gingersnap Girls, out of business. But that won't happen until humans start treating their fellow creatures humanely.

Mercer's foundation today is caring for 10 rescued horses. All of them need help, but right now she needs to raise $1,500 to remove a small tumor from P.C., a 21-year-old quarter horse.

P.C.'s past is spotty. He spent some time as a rent-a-horse. He ended up at a farm outside Leesburg and his owner stopped paying his bills. The farm's unpaid owners were going to have him put down because he was getting aggressive with the other horses.

Mercer stepped in, and P.C. is happily ensconced at a foster farm near Lovettsville -- his "behavior issues" went away when he had enough to eat.

Three vets have confirmed that the tumor is operable, and his recovery should be swift and complete. Even with her veterinarians giving a real break on the rates, Mercer said, P.C.'s surgery will cost close to $1,500.

Mercer started the Gingersnap Girls in 2004, and incorporated as a 501(c)3 in 2005. It's named for her first three rescues.

She's been around horses her whole life, Mercer said. She's ridden to hounds, trained in dressage, showed hunters. She had her first pony when she was 2 years old.

Then she rescued three neglected horses. One had been "horribly abused" – a thoroughbred used up at the track, then used to pump out foals, then abandoned in the back field. Repeated beatings had collapsed the sinus cavities in her face.

"When she died in 1996," Mercer said, "I vowed to her I would not let anybody forget."

The Gingersnap Girls Equine Rescue and Education Foundation was born. It houses 10 abused horses and ponies at a farm south of Purcellville and at volunteer foster farms, and has found homes for others.

Equally important to her is the education component. If enough children learn to value the lives around them, maybe there will be no more starved and beaten horses waiting stoically for a guardian angel.

Until then, she welcomes donations for hay, vet care and for P.C.'s surgery.

"Your tax-deductible support of The Gingersnap Girls Foundation is more than a second chance for the horses," she said. "It is a commitment to a more humane world for every soul."

Call her at 540-338-5218, or go to www.gingersnapgirls.org.

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