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		<title>Federal Judge Declines to Prevent Nevada BLM Mustang Gathers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A U.S. District Court Judge has denied wild horse advocates' request to halt Bureau of Land Management (BLM) wild horse gathers in Nevada on grounds that the court cannot rule on BLM round-up conduct that has yet taken place.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rtfitchauthor.com&amp;blog=8143161&amp;post=13966&amp;subd=rtfitch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Judge Gives Wild Horse  and Burro Advocates Bittersweet Ruling</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:43:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[RENO, (WHFF) –Yesterday, January 26th 2012, in a Nevada Federal Court the legal saga addressing the lack of human care standards in the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Wild Horse and Burro program continued as U.S. District Judge Howard McKibben acknowledged the validity of concerns brought forward but denied any further action against the BLM on behalf of plaintiff Laura Leigh of the Wild Horse Freedom Federation (WHFF).<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rtfitchauthor.com&amp;blog=8143161&amp;post=13959&amp;subd=rtfitch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Audio Post</title>
		<link>http://rtfitchauthor.com/2012/01/26/audio-post-12/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 03:23:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Wild Horses and Burros: Plaintiffs for the Day</title>
		<link>http://rtfitchauthor.com/2012/01/26/wild-horses-and-burros-plaintiffs-for-the-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:49:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>R.T. Fitch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the sun slowly peeks it’s glowing orb above the mountains and hills that surround Reno, Nevada it may just appear to be another day for most, but well out beyond those hills the few remaining wild horses and burros are going to be, virtually, crowded into a courtroom, today.

It’s January 27th 2012, a brisk and invigorating Thursday morning in northern Nevada, or at least I think it is morning.  I blasted into town well after midnight by my Houston biological clock but a quick call to Laura Leigh reminded me that the evening was still young, by local time, and she still had a lot of work to do.  Could I help her with that work, nope, just go to the hotel and get some rest in preparation for tomorrow, which is now today, and we would pool resources in the morning.  So here I am, once again with my mind exclusively on the horses and burros while sitting alone in a hotel room, wondering what we will be feeling twelve hours from now and what the future will look like for our four legged plaintiffs.  Perhaps, after drinking a pot of coffee, the most obvious statements that swirl around behind my forehead can be broken down into just two statements, the first is:<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rtfitchauthor.com&amp;blog=8143161&amp;post=13949&amp;subd=rtfitch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;War Horse&#8221; Message Touches the Heart of America</title>
		<link>http://rtfitchauthor.com/2012/01/25/war-horse-message-touches-the-heart-of-america/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:46:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>R.T. Fitch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day I finally had the opportunity to watch War Horse and was lucky enough to do so with my wife and her parents; the resulting afterglow yielded ample rewards.

My in-laws were not horse people until Terry and I got hitched; not that I brought horses with me into the relationship but I did bring the means that allowed Terry to live her dream, and her parents were there, in Brazil, when she was given Apache the Mongalarga Marchador who now lives with us in Texas.  My in-laws were hooked and always insist on taking care of the "GrandAnimals" when we travel.  So the invitation for a movie and a dinner was quickly accepted with great relish.  We attended a Monday afternoon matinee for not only the rock-bottom price of the tickets but because we knew that there would be few patrons present to distract us.  And we were right, there were only 9 total, including us, but one felt that she was above the rules and not only left her cell phone on but answered it in the middle of the movie.  I activated my death ray and vaporized her, immediately...in my mind.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rtfitchauthor.com&amp;blog=8143161&amp;post=13942&amp;subd=rtfitch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Last of the Real Cowboys</title>
		<link>http://rtfitchauthor.com/2012/01/24/the-last-of-the-real-cowboys/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:19:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>R.T. Fitch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve known a lot of ranchers in my life; good, honest men with a work ethic born of pride in the job they do, men who think nothing of rolling out round bales of hay in minus 20 degree weather, who would go out in a rainstorm and bring an abandoned calf into the barn and bottle feed it for days on end because, “he deserves a chance.” On the flat plains of north Texas, life on the range could destroy the weak, but for those who persevered it could turn them into the very best of the human race.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rtfitchauthor.com&amp;blog=8143161&amp;post=13937&amp;subd=rtfitch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beau Jacques Case Not Only Sad, But Worrying</title>
		<link>http://rtfitchauthor.com/2012/01/24/beau-jacques-case-not-only-sad-but-worrying/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:56:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>R.T. Fitch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The sad demise of former racehorse Beau Jacques will upset any horse lover.

Here was a thoroughbred gelding who, at five, was at the end of his racing career.

Owner Kevin Patterson had spent $US1000 in veterinary care to help Beau Jacques over a tendon injury suffered on March 29 last year, in the first step in getting him right for a new career after racing.

Kelsey Elva Lefever, 24, met with Patterson in May and held out the promise of a bright future for Beau Jacques.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rtfitchauthor.com&amp;blog=8143161&amp;post=13930&amp;subd=rtfitch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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