About HHPR & Our Mission

Hidden Hollow Pony Rescue is a subsidiary of The Hogohegee Indian Community Center, a 501c3 non-profit educational organization. EIN # 63-1237402. In 2000, The Hogohegee Indian Community Center was on the road, teaching Native classes, including how horses came to the USA. Driving from class to class across the south, students would point out horses and ponies that didn’t look like their well-fed, cared-for equines at home. From this, the Hidden Hollow Pony Rescue was created as a subsidiary to help save as many of those horses and ponies as possible from abuse, neglect, and absentee owners.

Elders and youth worked together to speak with horse owners to see if they could help work together to bring the owner's horse back to good health. When this was impossible, the animal was sometimes surrendered, and a sanctuary was established in the Bankhead National Forest of North Alabama to take in and care for these desolate animals in desperate need of a farrier, veterinarian, special diets, and other related services.

Today, Hidden Hollow Pony Rescue is both an equine rescue and an equine sanctuary. Finding homes for those horses and ponies that have been rehabilitated, and providing a loving forever home for those with conditions that make them unadoptable.