Cowgirl Donna Byrne packed up her two horses, Tonto and Jay, in Arcadia, Florida five months ago and took to the road, hoping to make it to Amarillo, Texas, and a new ranch job. She’s less than 80 miles from her destination, but she’ll arrive exhausted, beaten down by the long trip and heartsick. Jay, [...]
Archive for June, 2009
Cowgirl’s horse dies on epic ride through Texas
Posted: June 30, 2009 by R.T. Fitch in Horse NewsTags: Cowgirl, Horse
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Video: The plight of the Wild Horse -Mestengo
Posted: June 30, 2009 by R.T. Fitch in Horse Slaughter, Wild Horses/MustangsTags: Horse Slaughter, Wild Horse, Wild Mustang
Wild Horses and Slaughter: A Recipe for Disaster SFHH Update: Often, on this blog, we speak of the atrocities of horse slaughter and continued distortion of the facts by pro-slaughter advocates. But we have yet to explore the complexities that intertwine the fate of our American Wild Horses with those same bloody crimes that threaten our domesticated equine [...]
Man sentenced over horse deaths in UK
Posted: June 29, 2009 by R.T. Fitch in Horse NewsTags: animal cruelty, horse abuse
A man has pleaded guilty to an arson attack in which four horses were killed in Darwen, Lancashire. Matthew Roberts, 19, was given a three-year community order with special psychiatric supervision at Preston Crown Court on Monday. Roberts, a patient in a Northumberland psychiatric ward, admitted starting the blaze at a stable complex in July [...]
Video: Americans Against Horse Slaughter
Posted: June 28, 2009 by R.T. Fitch in Horse SlaughterTags: animal cruelty, Horse Slaughter
Horses on the Hill (Video courtesy of J. Caramante, Animal Angels ) Houston, TX – (SFHH) Come join us in Washington D.C. on July 14th as we take a stand against Horse Slaughter and beseech our Federal Representatives to vote for and support the Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act (H.R. 503/S. 727). R.T. Fitch, author [...]
On the Lighter Side: The Original Wrangler Iced Tea
Posted: June 27, 2009 by R.T. Fitch in Horse NewsTags: Horse Humor
The Horseman’s drink that puts the “Giddy-up” into the Summertime Doldrums MAGNOLIA, TX – (SFHH) It’s 3 PM and you have just finished that last section of fencing in the back pasture. Of course you are a little worn out due to all of the help you had with the horses leaning over your shoulder [...]
Horse Trainer brings rescued horses back to life
Posted: June 25, 2009 by R.T. Fitch in Horse RescueTags: Horse Rescue, Horse Slaughter
(NECN: Marnie MacLean, Freeport, Maine) – All across Maine, horse rescues are filled to capacity. Some have been abused or neglected, others are rescued from other states before they are sent to slaughter. Saving these animals is often the easy part. Training them proves to be much harder. That’s where the horse whisperer comes in. [...]
Retired Racehorses Dodge Slaughterhouse To Fight Crime
Posted: June 24, 2009 by R.T. Fitch in Horse NewsTags: Harness racing, Horse Slaughter, Race Horse, Slaughterhouse
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) Broadway Kevin waited in the auction holding pen, a successful harness horse whose life was now worth less than the cost to take care of him. If the local Amish farmers bought him, he’d spend his last years pulling carriages over the countryside. If the meat procurers won, a horse that went [...]
