Canterbury Farms near Maryland’s Eastern Shore is the nation’s largest breeder of Polish Arabian stallions, a place where horses “feel at home,” according to its Web site, and where a walk among the paddocks “will leave you with the feeling that you are visiting puppies in horse clothing.” – NOT SO!
Archive for April, 2011
150 Emaciated Horses Seized from Maryland Breeder
Posted: April 30, 2011 by R.T. Fitch in Horse News, Horse RescueTags: Animal welfare, Arabian horse, Cruelty to animals, Horse, Humane Society of the United States, Maryland, Rescues and Shelters
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Wild Horse First Amendment Suit Heads for the Ninth Circuit
Posted: April 30, 2011 by R.T. Fitch in Horse News, Wild Horses/MustangsTags: BLM, Bureau of Land Management, Department of Interior, First Amendment to the United States Constitution, Horse, Laura Leigh, Public land, Reno Nevada, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, United States district court, wild burro, Wild Horse
Wild Horse Education is continuing the legal battle for transparency against the Department of Interior (DOI) and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Plaintiff Laura Leigh has filed her notice of Appeal April 28, 2011 for the lawsuit that battles for transparency of the “hands-on” care of wild horses and burros.
Nevada Continues War Against Wild Horses
Posted: April 28, 2011 by R.T. Fitch in Horse News, Wild Horses/MustangsTags: burro, Cruelty to animals, government corruption, Horse, Nevada, wild burro, Wild Horse
Nevada Legislators Want to take Water From Wild Equids
BLM, USGS Begin New Wild Horse Fertility Control Study
Posted: April 27, 2011 by R.T. Fitch in Horse News, Wild Horses/MustangsTags: BLM, Bureau of Land Management, Cruelty to animals, government corruption, Horse, Obama Administration, Public land, Salt Lake City, Utah State Prison, Wild Horse
The Bureau of Land Management and the United States Geological Survey (USGS) have begun a five-year wild horse contraceptive study at the BLM’s short-term holding facility in Pauls Valley, Oklahoma. The pasture breeding study will test the effectiveness of two formulations of the investigational contraceptive vaccine SpayVac® to determine if the treatment can reduce foaling rates in wild horse mares.
100 Captive Wild Horses Moved From Squalid BLM Facility
Posted: April 26, 2011 by R.T. Fitch in Horse News, Wild Horses/MustangsTags: BLM, Bureau of Land Management, cloud foundation, Cruelty to animals, ginger Kathrens, Horse, horse abuse, Obama Administration, Salt Lake City, Utah State Prison, Wild Horse
Multiple news reports indicate that more than 100 wild horses have been moved to a short term holding concentration camp at the Utah State Prison in Gunnison. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) allegedly moved the captive mustangs to a BLM corral at the prison after the agency’s Butterfield Canyon facility near Salt Lake City incited national outrage.
Basic “Rules of the Road” for Horse Keeping
Posted: April 25, 2011 by R.T. Fitch in Horse News, Horse RescueTags: Animal welfare, Equestrian, Equine, Habitat for Horses, Halter, Horse, Horse Rescue, Jerry Finch
Beyond any doubt, there are those who know far more than I’ve even thought about in relation to the care of horses, but there are a few things that over the course of years of operating an equine rescue have become “rules of the road” in horse keeping.
Obama’s BLM Can Be Sued for Wild Horse Roundups
Posted: April 25, 2011 by R.T. Fitch in Horse News, Wild Horses/MustangsTags: Bureau of Land Management, California, Cruelty to animals, Equine, Horse, In Defense of Animals, National Environmental Policy Act, Obama Administration, Twin Peaks, United States, United States Department of the Interior, wild burro, Wild Horse
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) – A federal judge refused to dismiss wildlife groups’ lawsuit over the federal roundup of more than 1,500 wild horses and burros in northeast California and northwest Nevada.
