Feel Good Sunday: Video ~ R.T. Fitch Thanks Advocates Care and Concern
“Thanks to all of you for your care and concern, keep the Faith!”
Horse Owners, Rescuers Surveying Harvey’s Impact
Source: thehorse.com Evacuated horses are still being housed in safe locations away from the flood waters. Photo: Courtesy Jerry Finch by Pat Raia While rains associated with Hurricane Harvey have ceased, flooding continues to challenge horse owners in and around Houston and Galveston, Texas. Meanwhile Louisiana horse owners […]
Horses Allowed Stabling at Sam Houston Race Park to Escape Harvey
Source: texashillcountry.com At 7575 North Sam Houston Parkway near Willowbrook Mall in northwest Houston sits the Sam Houston Race Park, a place where people go to bet on horses races that are simulcasted and take place on site. Many Houstonians have also visited the Race Park to see concerts […]
More Than 70 Horses at Houston Stables Rescued From Flood Waters
By Dianna Wray as published in The HoustonPress “The news of the horses at Cypress Trails led many people to take to social media to express their outrage that the horses were apparently left in this situation to fend for themselves.” After days of warnings that flooding was […]
Underwater: Horses, Humans and Houston
by R.T. Fitch, President/Co-founder of Wild Horse Freedom Federation “The Skies Opened Up and it Wouldn’t Stop…” “Yesterday was a dreadful day as many lives and property were lost to a torrential storm system that dropped upwards of 20” of rain on the Bayou City. Forty five miles […]
Horses rescued in Houston now in the care of Dumb Friends League in Franktown, Colorado
SOURCE: thedenverchannel.com by TheDenverChannel.com Team (photos: Dumb Friends League) FRANKTOWN, Colo. – Neglected horses came by the dozens to the Dumb Friends League on Tuesday, and that was just the beginning. Thirty more horses will join 31 others already being treated at the Harmony Equine Center by the […]
New Animal Cruelty Charges for Conroe TX Horse Farm Owners
ABC 13 Houston CONROE, TX (KTRK) — New charges have been filed against a Conroe farm owner accused of neglecting more than 200 horses. Herman Hoffman and his wife, Kathleen Hoffman, face 17 new counts of animal cruelty. He also is charged with one count of tampering. The […]
Texas Ranch owner, wife taken into custody during investigation into horse neglect
Author: Syan Rhodes, Reporter, srhodes@click2houston.com Phil Archer, Reporter, parcher@kprc.com as published on Click2Houston.com “Sadly, this is right in our own backyard…you just never know the depths of depravity that human beings have the ability and desire to sink to.” ~ R.T. Investigation in alleged neglect of 200 horses […]
Feel Good Sunday: Never Say Never
Often times it is difficult to find something of value to recharge our batteries on ‘Feel Good Sunday’, that is especially the case this week.
Locally, in Houston, we witnessed the horrendous tragedy of a family of six being senselessly murdered, we buried a great animal advocate reporter, felt the pain of the death of an outstanding firefighter and struggle with the flood of unaccompanied Central American children over-running our borders.
On the national equine side of things the BLM has thumbed it’s nose at federal law and published an outlandish schedule to “zero out” the few remaining herds of wild horses in Wyoming. It feels as if pigs are flying and animals are talking…the world is surely coming to an end.
Advocates Concerned by Shipment of Horse Meat Through U.S. Ports
Source: By STEPHANIE STROM of the New York Times “…it would be possible for horse meat from the shipments going through Houston to end up in the United States” As concerns over horse meat infiltrating products labeled ground beef grows among American consumers, an advocacy group released shipping […]
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