I truly cannot recommend Sunny Sugarcreek Stables enough…read more
Finding the right place for your horse is one of the most vulnerable decisions you can make as an owner. You are trusting people with an animal you love like family, and after everything Mimi and I had been through, peace and safety mattered more to me than anything.
Since bringing Mimi here, I have watched her completely transform.
She has softened. She rests deeply. She rolls in the pasture, frolics, naps in the sun, and settles more every single day. One of the things that struck me most when arriving here was seeing horses peacefully sleeping in the fields and stalls. Horses do not fully rest in environments where they feel unsafe, stressed, or uncared for. That alone spoke volumes to me.
The facility is peaceful, clean, and constantly being improved. The staff has been kind, patient, welcoming, and genuinely caring not only toward the horses, but toward the people attached to them too. There is a calmness here that is hard to explain unless you experience it yourself.
What I think people also need to remember is that horses are incredibly fragile animals. Even in the best barns, with the best owners, trainers, and veterinary care, heartbreaking things can still happen. Losses in the horse world are devastating, but reducing complex situations into vague online accusations without context is unfair and honestly incredibly damaging to people who are trying their hardest every single day.
What matters to me is character, and these people showed theirs long before I ever boarded here. When I needed help getting Mimi out of an extremely difficult situation, they stepped in without hesitation when multiple haulers would not even go near my previous barn. They did not have to help me, but they did. That kindness, compassion, and willingness to help during one of the most stressful moments of my life is something I will never forget.
The horse world already has enough cruelty, ego, and division in it. We do not need to destroy good people through gossip and social media whispers simply because tragedy exists in a world where tragedy unfortunately can happen.
I can only speak from my own experience, and my experience has been one filled with support, compassion, transparency, and genuine care for the horses. Mimi is flourishing here, and that means more to me than internet noise ever will.