San Fernando Valley : WHEN IT REINS

Jolene’s Horse Rescue, a nonprofit organization that saves horses from neglect, cruelty and slaughter, is itself in need of rescue.

After four years of taking in discarded horses at her rented Chatsworth ranch, Sandra Jolene Venables now faces homelessness along with her 20 horses because the property is in foreclosure. The ranch, damaged by last year’s earthquake and this spring’s rains, will be auctioned off Thursday. Once that is done, Venables will have only days to relocate.

“These horses depend on me,” said Venables, a former manicurist and bail bondswoman. “If it was just me, I would live in a car, but they need to be taken care of.”