By Matt Driscoll as published in the Daily Weekly “Vickery Eckhoff took the opportunity to set the record straight” Last week Benjamin Taylor took to The Daily Weekly to note the recent unanimous vote by the Snohomish County Council banning horse slaughtering for human consumption. Many, it seems, […]
as published in the DVM360.com Preliminary laboratory tests indicate that contaminated hay is the culprit The ingestion of the highly toxic plant whorled milkweed is suspected to have caused the death of 19 horses at the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Wild Horse Inmate Program (WHIP) facility in […]
Fighting the Good Fight for the Horses and Burros Takes a Toll on Free Time “John Holland, president of the Equine Welfare Alliance and covert owner of Howling Ridge Film and Fertilizer Co., has been entertaining us with equine holiday videos over the years. But this year we […]
Today is Sunday, precisely one week before Christmas so I tender for you, this day, an original equine related Christmas story. But today’s story tugs at my personal heart-strings with more vigor than necessary. This tale was written several years ago, immediately after the loss of my German Shepherd companion, Nikki. With her passing many creatures were living with a gap in their hearts, this feeling does not only apply to humans but to our animal companions as well. Her partner in arms and constant friend was Terry’s good buddy, Kenny, a massive white Shepherd that cried, howled and looked for Nikki weeks after her departure. The story that follows was one I wrote as Kenny and I tried to find our way through our sadness and grief and is forever alive in our book “Straight from the Horse’s Heart”. The hole is still there but both of us learned to live with it, except that today the hole in my heart is much wider as our good friend and trusty companion, Kenny, crossed over the bridge on Friday, December 16th 2011. We miss him, even the horses wonder where the evening guardian is that watched over the barn while they ate…it is now so empty without the bouncing, forever happy German Shepherd.
Twas the night before Christmas on our public land
not a Mustang was stirring, knowing what was at hand.
They huddled in fear hoping someone would care,
in hopes that the advocates soon would be there.
On the first day of Christmas,
Ken Salazar gave me
One rogue BLM agency.
Information supplied by Protect Mustangs.org Public outrage gets creative… SAN FRANCISCO (December 20, 2012)–Citizens around the word are outraged at the BLM’s cruelty towards America’s native wild horses. The alleged federally protected mustangs are being rounded up and removed by the thousands only to be stockpiled in the […]
Original Story by R.T. Fitch ~ author/volunteer president of Wild Horse Freedom Federation Twas the night before… He checked the time again; not an easy maneuver as he had to take his right glove off, shove the left cuff of his parka up, peel back the wrist band […]
As printed in the Elko Daily Free Press (unedited) Local Herd Reduced to Possible Genetically Non-Viable Levels ELKO — Wild horse gatherers are taking a break this holiday season. The Bureau of Land Management has suspended operations for the Owyhee Complex gather, which began the end of November. […]
From the pages of the Washington Post Recently Fined Butcher Points Bloody Finger ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A New Mexico meat company that wants to resume domestic horse slaughter for food is suing the federal government, alleging inaction on its application was driven by emotional political debates and has […]
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