How to obtain a rescue horse cont...

Once you have prepared a place for your horse to live the next step is to find the perfect rescue horse that will match your needs regarding what your intention is for adopting a horse in the first place.
This step is important and will save you a lot of headaches later.
Ask yourself this question and be honest about your answer.
What do I want my horse to do for me?
Obviously everyone has different needs. You may want a horse you can ride, compete, breed, love, travel with, perform tricks, pull a cart or you may want to give a horse a nice retirement where they don't have to do anything.
No ask your self,
How realistic is this?
For example you may want a horse you can ride but you may have never ridden before. If you get a rescue horse who is green or inexperienced this could be a recipe for disaster unless you plan on getting help so that you and the horse can both get training. Even in this situation my advice would be to forget this idea. The best option would be to adopt a rescue horse who is older, who has many years of experience in riding.
The same goes for if you want to adopt a horse for your kids to ride. Older experienced horses are calmer and make good teachers.
Once you know what you want you expect from your horse the next step is to start looking.
In this economy there is an abundance of unwanted horses. I get emails all the time asking me to take horses because the owner can't afford their board or the horse has gone lame and the owner doesn't want to invest anymore time or money into their horse.
What I'm saying is that there are plenty of horses out there that need adopting.
My suggestion is this; declare to the universe that you are ready to meet the perfect horse for you. Imagine visiting the soul of your horse and tell this horse what you intend to do together. Show the horse where you plan on putting them and ask them how they feel about this arrangement.
Tell your horse that you are committed and you are excited about having them in your life.
Once I made the decision to get a horse it happened within two weeks. I also had a powerful dream where my horse Silver visited me and we had an adventure. This was before I met Silver in person. When we did meet I knew that he was the horse in my dream and shortly after the owner of Silver asked me if I would take him because she could no longer care for him.