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BLM to Target Wild Horses in Utah to Appease Cattle Ranchers

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“The Utah ‘Good Ole Boy’ club comes out this week with their guns a blazing as the BLM bends to the pressure of a law suit where local politicians, in the pocket of cattle ranchers, want wild horses cleared off the land so their welfare cattle can strip the range clear of any foliage. Gotta just love the mentality of the ‘Bubbas’ as most of them refer to the 6th grade as their ‘Senior Year’ and it shows. (meanwhile, back in Texas, we buy land, fence it, pay taxes on it and maintain it for livestock…no bovine welfare in the Lone Star State, oh dang, I used a big word again. Bovine=Cows, boys…get it?)” ~ R.T.

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Updates on USDA TWH Anti-Soring Legislation

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by Kristen Kovatch as published on Horse Nation The equestrian internet has been on fire on both sides of the Tennessee Walking Horse (TWH) soring issue since July 25, when the Animal and Plant Health Inspections Service (APHIS), a department of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), […]

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TX Cutting Horse Vet’s Horses Slated for Slaughter

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by Christin Coyne as published on Weatherford Democrat “Veterinarian Leea Arnold, through an employee, declined to speak with the Democrat and forwarded links to American Veterinary Medical Association statements and frequently-asked questions regarding horse slaughter and unwanted horses.” Horse rescuers say they ended up saving from slaughter several […]

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USDA Proposes New Regulations to Combat Horse Soring

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Source: WBIR.com “…horses are subjected to chemical or mechanical irritants to enhance their gait…” USDA‘s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is proposing regulation changes to revise and strengthen the Horse Protection Act regulations to better protect horses from the cruel and inhumane practice of soring. Soring is when […]

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News Flash: Next BLM Wild Horse & Burro Advisory Board Meeting Scheduled

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Unedited File This document is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on 07/29/2016 and available online at http://federalregister.gov/a/2016-18025, and on FDsys.gov DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Bureau of Land Management 4310-84 [LLWO260000.L10600000.PC0000.LXSIADVSBD00] Notice of Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board Meeting AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior. […]

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