R.T. Fitch’s life has been anything but ordinary. Straight out of high school, he joined the U.S. Air Force Band during the Vietnam era, and while stationed in Hawaii, he spent weekends at Sea Life Park training penguins, sea lions, and whales. His path through life has taken many unexpected turns—including more than a few lessons in love—until meeting his wife, Terry, brought a lasting partnership and a shared passion for animals.
Over the course of his adult career, R.T. worked internationally in multiple countries, gaining a broad, global perspective that colors both his worldview and his writing. Now rooted in Texas, he and Terry live on a small farm surrounded by four-legged companions with paws, claws, and hooves. Together, they have devoted years to equine rescue and wild horse protection.
An ordained volunteer chaplain and professional Santa Claus for a local historical society—with Terry by his side as Mrs. Claus—R.T. brings warmth, wisdom, and joy to every season. His work reflects a life of service, wonder, and connection to both people and animals.
He is the author of Straight from the Horse’s Heart, a moving collection of true rescue stories and spiritual reflections, and Fangs of Light, a supernatural tale steeped in symbolic and metaphorical storytelling. The first in a planned trilogy, Fangs of Light blends myth and mystery to explore themes of identity, redemption, and the power of empathy—offering readers not only suspense and intrigue but a deeper look at the light and shadow within us all.
By Luciana Magalhaes as published on the WSJ.com “Plans to slaughter burros to capitalize on Chinese market for vivifying ‘ejiao’ upsets traditionalists” APODI, Brazil—The dependable donkey once did it all here in northeast Brazil, from hauling in the harvest to carrying children to remote schoolhouses. Now so many […]
by Women of Age Riding Horses.com April 6, 2018 was National Hostess Twinkies Day, a salute to the cream filled cake invented in Illinois in 1930. When we were young, Twinkies were standard store in our kitchen cupboard. When we did our homework, made our beds mom rewarded […]
by Peter Friederici as published on the Arizona Daily Sun “We have no precise words for how the wolf was known and loved or feared…” The story begins with a wolf standing by the side of the road. This isn’t the story you might think. There’s no helpless […]
By Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility “Alaska’s predator control program is clearly out of control,” Washington, DC, April 3, 2018 — The State of Alaska is scrambling to shut down hunting and trapping adjacent to Denali National Park over concerns that excessive kills may destabilize this iconic wolf […]
by John Siciliano as published on the Washington Examiner “”Putting Combs in charge of the Fish and Wildlife Service is like appointing an arsonist as the town fire marshal,” Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is appointing a top critic of endangered species protections the head of the agency charged with […]
By Amanda Peacher as published on KUER.org “More flexibility is code for relaxing or eliminating environmental safeguards and standards that are mandatory…” Following Secretary of Interior Ryan Zinke‘s repeated calls for more management of public lands, this spring the Bureau of Land Management is giving certain ranchers more […]
By Erik Molvar as published on The Hill “There is no shortage of severe damage from livestock overgrazing on public lands in my home state of Wyoming… Thanks to a legal settlement between conservation groups and the National Park Service, Point Reyes National Seashore has now stopped blindly […]
by Marjorie Farabee of Wild Horse Freedom Federation Re-post from 2016 “Fellow equine advocates, I received this note, below, from Marjorie yesterday and wanted to share it as it is so very timely in so many ways. But being that it was personal I sought out Marjorie’s approval […]
by Levi Rickert as published on Native News.com “Given the number of buffalo captured for slaughter and quarantine, along with the excessive hunting that took place along Yellowstone’s boundary, more than 1,200 buffalo have been eliminated from the country’s last wild, migratory buffalo populations, which now hovers at fewer than […]
OpEd by Susan Wagner, President of Equine Advocates “It’s not over until it is OVER!” Now that the new spending bill has passed with the language we needed to temporarily protect America’s wild and domestic equines, where do we go from here? Thanks to the friends horses have […]
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