Updates from the deadly Calico Roundup by Craig Downer and Elyse Gardener Below are the photos of the roundup that took place today (Saturday, January 2, 2010) showing how the captured band stallion, “Freedom,” valiantly fought for and regained his liberty although he had to leave his family […]
“Mommy, Mommy, it’s Christmas time, you should not be crying. Why are you crying, Mommy?
You have been crying since Christmas eve day, the day you read something in the newspaper about the wild ponies. It was something about a judge saying OK to round up the wild ponies but I don’t understand, Mommy.
You and daddy never let us run our ponies in the snow, you say that it is bad for them that they might trip and fall. When it is deep they can work too hard and hurt themselves so how come the bad men are chasing the wild ponies through the snow, Mommy? I don’t understand.
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…..
John Holland releases “How the Grinch Stole Equus”
by Jerry Finch, Founder and President of Habitat for Horses Back a zillion years ago the “ranch” existed in my backyard. At one point we had around 30 horses behind the house, and about half that many volunteers on a daily basis. One of them was a teenager […]
Artist, Laura Leigh is adding a Wild Horse Annie page to her Rescue Friends Children’s site http://www.therescuefriends.com/id19.html. As part of the page, she’d like to get kids involved and is going to add comments from kids on Mustangs. She will send them a certificate of appreciation with an […]
by Sandra Olsen of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History This Behind the Scenes article was provided to LiveScience in partnership with the National Science Foundation. Paleolithic hunters in Europe and Asia began exploiting horses for meat thousands of years ago when the last continental glaciers disappeared, yet […]
He stood alone in the pasture, looking at the distant shapes of horses as they moved ever so slowly through the darkness, heads down, grazing one last time before they settled in to sleep.
by Jerry Finch, founder and President of Habitat for Horses It happened long before our time, far before time even began, in a place of mist and trees, in a place of open land and brilliant moonlight, in a time and space far beyond our creation or knowledge. […]
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