~Travel Fund & Promotion~

~PPL's Pony Retirement Fund and Our MOST Special Volunteers~

When we take a pony into our program we promise each one LIFE TIME care. That means that they will NEVER be sold, traded, or abandonded by the program.

Our ponies entrust their lives to us and we consider their well being to be our VERY FIRST responsibility. That's why we carefully screen our families and make sure they have LOTS of love to give, as well as the ability to give our ponies appropriate shelter, food, and medical care. It is also why we NEVER allow a pony to live alone; all of our ponies have either an equine friend, a small goat, a miniature donkey, or other small animal to keep them from being lonely.

But despite the best care we can give them (and like all of us), our ponies eventually grow old and need to be retired from some or all of their career duties. Sometimes our breeders and promoters are able to keep an aging pony until the end of their days, but very often space is limited and they are placed with an entirely new set of volunteers--our MOST SPECIAL volunteers--people who are willing to care for our ponies through their retirements.

~Our thanks~

Our thanks to those most special volunteers who care for our retired ponies:

Judy Detore, FL - "KINOMI" & "SNAPSHOT"
Colonel C. Hendry, NY - "MR. CAESAR"
Elisha's Home, PA - "MR. LOLLIPOP"
Jolley Family, PA - "ROSE"
Nancy Leeds, AZ - "BECKY" & "C.C."
H. McCormick, NY - "TINKER TOY"
Tracy Root, CT - "DUKE" & "BRANDY"
Gail Schumann - "TROLL"
Sears Family, PA - "WHILEY"
Connie Smith, NY - "DAFFODIL"
Snowdon Farm, NY - "GREY LADY"
Dee Trudell, MD -"LOUISE'S LOLLIPOP"
J. Williams, NH - "REDWING LACEY"

~Our MOST special fund ~

It has been a dream of our founder and National Director, Marianne Alexander, to establish a retirement fund to provide a bit of help to those gallant and deeply compassionate PPL members who open their hearts and their homes to an aged broodmare, gelding, or stallion, who may still have quality of life but can no longer maintain their working life.

This fund has been named THE NEMECKAY RETIREMENT FUND in honor of Emil and Elaine Nemeckay, long time fundraisers for PPL, and their two donkeys, PEPPI and CISCO, who were sent in good faith to a retirement home that left them abused and neglected.

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A bit more about our ponies and retirement

We asked Gail Schumann, one of our most experienced volunteers, to share her thoughts on ponies and retirement. Please visit her article, Thoughts on Retirement, in Volunteer Talk. We think Gail's response expresses our sentiments EXACTLY.

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