WASHINGTON, D.C. March 31, 2010 – In a final brief filed today, wild horse advocates are asking a federal court to order the government to return to the Nevada range approximately 1800 wild horses who, after being rounded up earlier this year, await their fate at government holding pens located approximately 200 miles from their home range in Nevada’s Calico Mountain Complex. The international law firm of Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney, on behalf of plaintiffs In Defense of Animals (IDA), ecologist Craig Downer and author Terri Farley, highlighted the Honorable Judge Paul L. Friedman’s preliminary analysis that long-term holding of wild horses in the Midwest is likely illegal when asking for the court to order defendants Department of Interior (DOI) and Secretary Ken Salazar to find room for the captured Calico horses on the more than 30 million acres of public lands designated as wild horse herd areas.
Archive for March, 2010
Federal Lawsuit Against Wild Horse Roundup Seeks Return of 1800 Horses to Nevada Range
Posted: March 31, 2010 by R.T. Fitch in Horse News, Wild Horses/MustangsTags: BLM, Bureau of Land Management, Craig Downer, Equine, foal, Horse, Interior Department, Mare, Mustang, Nevada, round up, roundup, Stallion, Terri Farley, United States, United States Secretary of the Interior, Washington D.C., Wild Horse, Wild Mustang
Sweeping Undercover Investigation of Canada’s Leading Equine Slaughterhouses shows Cruelty and Abuse
Posted: March 31, 2010 by R.T. Fitch in Horse News, Horse SlaughterTags: Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Captive bolt pistol, CHDC, Cruelty to animals, Equine, Horse, Horse Slaughter, Quebec, Saskatchewan
News Release from Canadian Horse Defense Coalition Horse Welfare Group calls for immediate closure of Canada’s horse slaughter plants Westbank, B.C., March 30, 2010: In late February 2010, the Canadian Horse Defence Coalition (CHDC) received hidden camera footage of horse slaughter practices at Quebec’s Viandes Richelieu and Alberta’s Bouvry Exports – the latter known as [...]
Captured Calico Wild Horses contracting Pigeon Fever
Posted: March 31, 2010 by R.T. Fitch in Horse News, Wild Horses/MustangsTags: Abscess, animal cruelty, BLM, Bureau of Land Management, Conditions and Diseases, Equine, Health, Horse, Infection, Infectious disease, Laura Leigh, Mustang, Pus, United States, wildhorse, wildmustang
by Artist/Reporter Laura Leigh BLM goes “DARK” on latest misery to befall abused Wild Horses The horses gathered by the Bureau of Land Management from the Calico Complex in Nevada are currently held at the privately contracted facility named the Broken Arrow in Fallon Nevada. Observers have been allowed to monitor the horses through a [...]
EWA Chair Calls BLM Handling of DC Protestors Heavy Handed
Posted: March 31, 2010 by R.T. Fitch in Horse News, Wild Horses/MustangsTags: Associated Press, Congress, DC, Equine, Equine Welfare Alliance, Health care, Horse, horse breed, John Holland, mounted patrol, Mustang, Politics, President of the United States, round up, United States, United States Congress
by John Holland, EWA President – Reprint from “Horseback Magazine“ WASHINGTON, (EWA) – The demonstration was great, but you really got the feeling of being in a dictatorship! Much of this might be because of the recent anti-health care bill demonstrations and threats, but I have not felt this atmosphere since the 60s. A guy [...]
Horse Hater pleads Guilty in Louisiana
Posted: March 30, 2010 by R.T. Fitch in Horse News, Horse RescueTags: Animal welfare, Cruelty to animals, Equine, Habitat for Horses, Horse, Horse Rescue, Jerry Finch, Louisiana, Louisiana Mare, Mare
March 30, 2010 was the day that Tony Meyers was scheduled to stand trial in St. Martin Parish, Louisiana for animal cruelty charges where he inflicted grievous harm to a mare, three years ago. He pleaded guilty as charged the day before, after jury selection.
BLM Calls Wild Horse Death Stampede at Calico “Humane”
Posted: March 30, 2010 by R.T. Fitch in Horse News, Wild Horses/MustangsTags: BLM, Bureau of Land Management, Cruelty to animals, Equine, Government, Horse, Horseback Magazine, horses, JoLynn Worley, London, Mustang, San Francisco, Steven Long, United States, wildhorse, wildmustang
The federal Bureau of Land Management has challenged Horseback’s terminology calling a Northern Nevada Calico roundup “ill fated.”
“The Calico gather wasn’t “ill fated.” It was conducted in a professional and humane manner and achieved the goal of bringing an
overpopulation of wild horses in the Calico Complex within the established appropriate management levels,” spokeswoman JoLynn Worley said in a note to the magazine.
Shouts of “Wild and Free, Let Them Be” From Protestors of Obama Administration Wild Horse Policy
Posted: March 30, 2010 by R.T. Fitch in Horse News, Wild Horses/MustangsTags: Bureau of Land Management, Equine, Equine Welfare Alliance, EWA, foal, ginger Kathrens, Harry Reid, Helicopter, Horse, Interior Department, London, Los Angeles, Mare, Maria Daines, Mariana Tosca, Melita Morgan, Mustang, President Obama, Stallion, The Cloud Foundation, United States, United States Department of the Interior, Washington DC, Wendie Malick, wildhorse, wildmustang
CHICAGO, (EWA) – March 25 will be remembered by equine advocates across the United States and the United Kingdom as the day the international cries for the wild horses and burros were raised loud and clear.
