By Cara Parks as published in Modern Farmer Afghanistan has the highest infant mortality rate in the world. The country is no longer among the bottom ten countries in Save the Children’s annual rankings of worst places to be a mother, but it remains a dismal 146. Enter […]
Story By Horsetalk.co.nz “The fires are still not controlled and many landholders do not know how horses left behind have fared,” An estimated 2000 horses have been moved out of high-risk areas of South Australia ahead of the major bushfires that have raged across the Adelaide Hills. The […]
By Amanda Marrazzo as published in the Chicago Tribune “All I could see is her going out to her barn every day and having no one there to love.“ In the days after a fire in her barn killed 32 horses, Amber Bauman walked knee-deep in ashes and […]
It seems that Iron County in Utah has bigger worries than wild horses. Sonn Kent Berrett, who works at Southern Utah University (” lead maintenance carpenter, facilities management”), and was the owner of Elsa, the horse pictured below, has been charged with animal cruelty (see article below). Earlier this year, in […]
“A study by the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences last year said raising beef for the American dinner table is more harmful to the environment than other meat industries such as pork and chicken. The study said that compared with other popular animal proteins, beef […]
We posted stories about these neglected horses in “Copiah County Landowner Charged with ‘Animal Cruelty’ in horse Case,” and “Neglected Horses’ Owner has Prior Livestock Theft Charges.” Thank you to Alicia and Scott Armstrong, the Arabian Rescue Mission (ARM), Stop Shipping Horses to Slaughter, and to all of the […]
Source: Multiple “I share this story with mixed feelings as there is no possible way to put a price tag on the lives of our equine companions who live with us here at Laughing Horse Ranch, just no way. But, horses are not a business to us nor […]
Source: ABC News A horse that had been put out to pasture had to be rescued when a sinkhole opened up in the Florida pasture, trapping him. Nate, a 30-year-old horse, was stuck in the hole for about three hours last Friday before personnel from the fire department […]
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 660,000 times in 2014. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 28 […]
SOURCE: Huffingtonpost.com For beasts that might seem far apart in the animal kingdom, these wild baboons and working horses sure get along. Quirky footage captured in the fields next to Monkeyland and Birds of Eden wildlife sanctuaries in Plettenberg Bay, South Africa, shows the unlikely friends gathering at […]
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