Grand Valley Horse Rescue is “teetering on the brink,” volunteers say, as the horse rescue and horsemanship training group in Grand Junction scrambles to make ends meet by the end of this month.

While the organization has no paid staff, Grand Valley Horse Rescue Director Shelle DeVergie says the group is around $2,600 short of making ends meet this month. Whether it can find that money in the next two weeks will determine whether the nonprofit can continue its efforts to house and feed surrendered horses, occasionally buy them from slaughter-bound auction blocks, and connect locals with the animals for affordable rider training and hippotherapy.

“There’s a horse trailer coming in here at the end of October with the Colorado Horse Rescue Network … if I can’t raise funds by the end of the

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