By MARGARET REIST / Lincoln Journal Star “Since she didn’t finish her career, maybe the horse could finish it for her,” LINCOLN, Neb. – Skinny was Vicki Bourg’s horse from the moment she first climbed on his back, sometime after the Burwell Rodeo where she met Jesse Roberts. […]
A few weeks ago, she was the darling of The Jurga Report. Readers and Facebook friends were touched by Great Britain’s Princess Anne’s recent decision to source her new riding horse from the collection of adoptables housed at a rehoming center run by World Horse Welfare.
She was the royal face for Doing What’s Right in the horse world. This week, many think she’s turned her back on welfare ethics with a call to debate the place of horse slaughter in the bigger picture of neglected and unwanted horses.
WASHINGTON — The United States Anti-Doping Agency is the last and best hope to return safety and integrity to the troubled sport of thoroughbred racing, members of the industry told Congress at a hearing Thursday.
“50 years ago today, President John F. Kennedy was shot and killed; a moment frozen in time for many us. To personally explain in more detail would easily date me but a recent CNN video report takes away a moment that stayed with me, too. In honor of JFK, we respectfully share it with you and likewise, offer up a moment of silence for the premature passing of a President. In God we Trust. Keep the Faith.” ~ R.T.
Source: Unedited BLM Press Release less Headline and Biline Death, Injury and Loss of Freedom Planned for Federally Protected Wild Horses The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Rock Springs Field Office will begin a wild horse gather in the Adobe Town and Salt Wells Creek (ATSW) Herd Management […]
SOURCE: COURTHOUSE NEWS SERVICE Wild Horse Management Suit Bucked by Judge By ANNIE YOUDERIAN (CN) – The government’s decision to rein in the wild horse population on Montana’s Pryor Mountain did not violate environmental law, a federal judge ruled. U.S. District Judge James Gwin dismissed a challenge by […]
by Debbie Coffey Copyright 2013 All Rights Reserved. Dept. of Interior photo It seems that the mining industries’ man in their pocket, Sen. Harry Reid, couldn’t be happier with President Obama’s nomination of his former senior advisor, Neil Kornze, to be the new Director of the Bureau of Land Management. […]
By Pat Ra as published in TheHorse.com “Unless your barn is built like Fort Knox and certified for a high-wind event, horses should be in their pastures,” Though horses some were removed from damaged pastures, few animals were driven from their homes when high winds and driving rains […]
by Christa Lesté-Lasserre as published in TheHorse.com Toxoplasmosis in adult humans—especially the elderly and immune-deficient—can cause fever, pneumonia, heart disorders, muscular difficulties, lymphadenopathy, and death. After all the publicized concern about the presence of phenylbutazone (Bute) in horsemeat, researchers now fear the meat could also carry the organism […]
by Christina Wilkie (Become a fan) as published in the Huffington Post “This legislation brings excessive regulatory burdens on the walking horse industry…” Warning: Graphic Abuse Documented WASHINGTON — The cruel practice of “soring” championship gaited horses by wrapping their hooves in corrosive chemicals and then applying chains […]
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