Animal Welfare Institute has long advocated alternatives to horse slaughtering, along with many others, such as therapeutic riding, riding school programs, or even second careers in a variety of equestrian sporting events.
With BLM Knowledge: Wild Horses Sold to Kill Buyer by BLM Contractor
February 10, 2013 · Leave a Comment
What the BLM consistently seems to “maintain” is fraud against the American taxpayer in its Environmental Assessments, a long history of inhumane handling of wild horses, lack of oversight and accountability, a waste of tax dollars, and lies to both the public and Congress.
Lawmakers Press for Answers on Sale of Wild Horses
February 4, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Reps. Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz., and Ed Whitfield, R-Ky., sent a letter to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar pressing him to explain what role the agency had in selling so many horses to a man the letter calls “a longtime kill buyer.”
Local equine transport helps horses headed to Newtown
December 28, 2012 · Leave a Comment
The horses that a Poolesville horse ambulance was expected to carry to Connecticut are small, but their mission is a huge one: help heal the hearts of the children affected by the Sandy Hook shooting last month.
Indiana artist gaining international attention
October 30, 2012 · Leave a Comment
His paintings mimic those of famous abstract and impressionist painters. They appear to be heavily influenced by Jackson Pollock or Vincent Van Gogh. But the artist himself more closely resembles Smarty Jones or Secretariat.
Justin is a nine-year old 1500-pound Friesian horse that began painting two years ago.
All the Missing Horses
September 30, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Davis has paid the BLM a total of $17,630 for the animals, far less than BLM has expended to provide them – the agency estimates it costs $1,000 to roundup a wild horse and records show it has paid as much as $5,000 per truckload to ship them to Davis.
Mount Airy sanctuary works to provide horses with safe homes
September 20, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Incorporated in 2005, the Mount Airy rescue at 17250 Old Frederick Road sits on 109 acres and works to save draft horses from slaughter, abuse and neglect by finding them adoptive homes as trail and schooling horses.
Horse Sense — and more
August 27, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Southwest Behavioral Health Services houses a new equine-assisted therapy program run by Flagstaff therapist Libby Smith. “Horses mirror,” Smith said, quoting Winston Churchill, “‘There is nothing as good for the inside of a man as the outside of a horse.’”
Mystery of horse taming ‘solved’ by gene study
May 10, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Horses were domesticated 6,000 years ago on the grasslands of Ukraine, southwest Russia and west Kazakhstan, a genetic study shows. The work, by a Cambridge University team, brings together two competing theories on horse domestication.
Identity of Pompeii’s “Mystery Horse” Revealed
November 6, 2010 · Leave a Comment
(PhysOrg.com) — The identity of a mysterious breed of “horse” which has baffled experts since its remains were uncovered at Pompeii has been resolved by a Cambridge University researcher – who realised it was a donkey.
Renowned Horse Whisperer Puts Veterans on a Path to Healing
August 30, 2010 · Leave a Comment
In the newest special in Military Channel’s Coming Home initiative, original “horse whisperer” and American renaissance cowboy Monty Roberts works with three veterans of the Iraq war, each of whom suffers from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. The result is nothing short of magic.
Mustangs big part of Crow lore
September 30, 2009 · Leave a Comment
The tough ponies of the Pryor Mountains are celebrated in the lore of the Crow Tribe.
“The reason the Crow used them is they could run all day and go for a week without food,” said Elias Goes Ahead, a Crow historian who teaches at Pryor. “The Crow respect these ponies because they were tough.”
