Source: By Conor Shine of the Las Vegas Sun Several equine veterinarians testified that roping horses by their legs can have “disastrous” consequences… The World Series Charreria event scheduled for the South Point in late September has been effectively canceled after Clark County commissioners decided Tuesday not to […]
Source: By Nathan Baca and Kyle Zuelke of 8NewsNow.com “The majority of the horses that we use are actually rescues…” LAS VEGAS — Horse roping is called animal cruelty by some, and living history by others. Clark County commissioners will decide at Tuesday’s meeting on whether to ban rodeos with controversial […]
Source: Intro by Susan Wagner, article from SCOPE Magazine “Today is ‘Feel Good Sunday’ and it is our most distinct pleasure to bring you a heartwarming story of a very special PMU mare, rescued from slaughter. Thank you, Susan Wagner.” ~ R.T. n 2004, the New York-based equine […]
Order could delay today’s sale of nearly 500 horses at Fallon Livestock Exchange RENO, Nev – A federal court judge in Reno, NV has granted a coalition of wild horse advocacy and conservation groups a Temporary Restraining Order to block the sale of unbranded horses at a slaughter auction […]
Source: By Jan Falstad of the Billings Gazette ““Leachman cannot now change his position on appeal and argue that the state produced insufficient evidence…” Yellowstone County District Judge Susan Watters has upheld James Leachman’s jury conviction on five counts of abusing his horses. Leachman, a longtime Billings horse […]
Source: by Holly Gann as published in the Alamogordo Daily News Horse slaughter is a cause of, not a solution to, any surplus of horses in this country. The option to send horses to slaughter perpetuates overbreeding of horses, and more than 100,000 horses are sentenced to die […]
Source: HorseTalk “Not only did the GAO misrepresent the data, they completely missed the importance of hay prices and availability,” American horse advocates have called into question the reliability of a report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) which it said helped open the way for the resumption […]
Source: By: Patrick Springer, as published at INFORUM Will the young wild horses find caring homes or will they be sent to the slaughterhouse? Fargo – Thousands of people are reading about the saga of stallions like Thunder and mares like Spotted Blue as they wait to learn […]
Source: National Pet Rescue Examiner Portsmouth Police Officer Brian Davis and his wife Jennifer Davis were charged on Tuesday for animal cruelty in the starvation death of their former horse. Officer Davis, 34, was assigned to the K-9 Unit, and has been temporarily transferred to an administrative position […]
Source: A Humane Nation ~ Wayne Pacelle‘s Blog “…the situation unfolding at Palomino Valley is yet another symptom of a broken horse and burro program…” Those of you who regularly watch our good friend Jane Velez-Mitchell’s show on HLN may have seen me last night in a brief segment […]
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