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Friends of Lackota Animal Sanctuary
Welcome Friends — where compassion meets care.
Thank you for supporting our rescued animals!
Welcome Visitors, Volunteers and Supporters
Since our founding in 2021, Friends of Lackota Animal Sanctuary (FoLAS) has been committed to rescuing equines from some of the most heartbreaking conditions imaginable—including the slaughter pipeline. Today, over 100 horses, donkeys, and mules call our 200-acre sanctuary in Nunn, Colorado home, where they are safe, loved and free.
OUR MISSION
To provide food, shelter, and medical care to equines, livestock, and other animals in need. FoLAS offers a peaceful, permanent home where animals live with dignity, free from fear, neglect, or harm.
WHAT MAKES FoLAS UNIQUE?
HOSPICE CARE – EQUINE NURSING HOME
We serve as a compassionate home for equines that are elderly, disabled, or in need of hospice support. Through careful symptom and pain management, we ensure every animal lives—and passes—with comfort, dignity, and love.
ADVOCACY
We’re strong voices against horse slaughter and proud supporters of the SAFE Act (Save America’s Forgotten Equines Act). Our mission and message have reached thousands through newsletters, magazine articles and community events such as ELK Fest in Estes Park, CO.
LIFETIME COMMITMENT
Most of our residents are not healthy enough for adoption—and that’s okay. At FoLAS, they receive lifelong care, nutritious food, necessary medical treatment, personal attention, and plenty of love.
Meet Lackota's Friends
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BECOME A FoLAS GUARDIAN ANGEL
By becoming a monthly donor, you help ensure that our animals are never without what they need to live safely and peacefully.
We call our monthly donors Guardian Angels—because that’s exactly what you are.
Your ongoing support helps us:
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Keep bellies full and bodies healthy
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Provide medication and veterinary care
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Maintain safe, clean barns and pastures
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Offer companionship, training, and enrichment
Whether you give $20 or $200 a month, your commitment makes an enormous difference.
Guardian Angels give more than money—they give safety, peace, and a second chance.
Hungry Horses
Give Them the Life They Deserve — Become a Monthly Supporter of Friends of Lackota Animal Sanctuary.
On the quiet plains of Nunn, Colorado, over 100 horses, donkeys, and mules have found refuge at Friends of Lackota Animal Sanctuary — a place where forgotten, abandoned, and mistreated equines are given a second chance at life.
Here, Every Life Matters
Every soft nuzzle, every strong hoofbeat, every gentle whinny tells a story of resilience, hope, and healing.
But their sanctuary only exists because of you.
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EVERY EQUINE DESERVES LOVE
Monthly donors are the heartbeat of Friends of Lackota. Your steady support provides hay to fill their bellies, medical care for their wounds, farrier visits to ease their steps, and endless fields where they can run free and safe.
For as little as the cost of a cup of coffee each week, you can change a life forever.
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$25/month feeds a horse for a week.
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$50/month ensures life-saving veterinary care.
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$100/month provides a forever home for those who have nowhere else to go.
When you become a monthly sponsor, you become part of their journey and a FaLAS Guardian Angel!. You'll be giving love, dignity, and peace to animals who have given humanity so much, and asked for so little in return.
Their lives depend on kindness. Their futures depend on you.