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Jennifer Williams - Blue Bonnet Equine Humane Society

I’ve loved horses for a long time, starting with riding lessons when I was about 11.  I got my first horse a year later.  She was my great uncle’s old farm horse.  She put up with all kinds of foolishness from me – and was my best friend for the two years I had her.  Since then, I’ve ridden western pleasure, English pleasure (saddleseat), hunter pleasure, dressage and sidesaddle.  I currently have a reining prospect, a hunter pleasure horse, a country English pleasure prospect and two retired horses – all Arabians or half-Arabians. I got involved in rescue in 1998 and founded Lone Star Equine Rescue in the fall of ’98. I ran Lone Star Until 2005 when I and several others formed Bluebonnet Equine Humane Society.  We work with law enforcement officers throughout Texas and Arkansas to investigate reports of neglect and abuse, educate owners when possible and remove horses when necessary. I am a Certified Humane Investigator (through Code 3 Associations and the Law Enforcement Training Institute) and have a Masters and PhD in Animal Science from Texas A&M (emphasis on equine behavior, learning and welfare).  I am also president of the American Sidesaddle Association and a writer.  I have published in EQUUS, AQHA Journal, Young Rider, Chronicle of the Horse and others.  My first book, How to Start and Run a Rescue, was published a few years ago and my second book is currently with the publisher. Find Jennifer under Non-Profits in our member directory.