Category: Horse News

Underwater: Horses, Humans and Houston

by R.T. Fitch, President/Co-founder of Wild Horse Freedom Federation “The Skies Opened Up and it Wouldn’t Stop…” “Yesterday was a dreadful day as many lives and property were lost to a torrential storm system that dropped upwards of 20” of rain on the Bayou City. Forty five miles […]

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Study: Depressed Horses Show Lack of Attention

SOURCE:  thehorse.com Researchers have confirmed that withdrawn, or depressed, horses show a lack of attention compared to their nonwithdrawn counterparts.   Photo: iStock By Christa Lesté-Lasserre, MA Withdrawn horses exhibit similar signs as chronically depressed humans.  They take on unusual postures (in the horse, it’s a flattened neck and […]

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Trampled on meat truck, mare now helps others

Source:  Off Track Thoroughbreds Press Exclusive, left, now spends her days with Tina, a filly orphaned at birth. All photos by Jim Craner, Pan-American Wildlife and Scenic Photography By Susan Salk An older broodmare, who years ago was trampled inside a crowded truck headed for the slaughterhouse, nearly […]

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Shaving Livestock Grazing’s Carbon Hoofprint

Source:  Yubanet.com Complaints Target BLM Neutral Stance on Livestock Grazing Climate Impacts By: Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) Washington, DC April 11, 2016 – Even as President Obama touts steps to address climate change, his U.S. Bureau of Land Management appears not to have gotten the message, […]

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