Author:Amber Barnes

We know our horses ask for our help—research groups in Japan and Italy have both confirmed it. But another Italian research team is studying how horses “talk” to us or try to get our attention, and they say it’s all revealed in a simple flick...

Do horses smile? They sure do. Recent study results suggest horses have specific facial expressions that reveal positive emotions akin to “happiness,” in a sense. And while those expressions might not be the cheesy cartoon grin or the human ear-to-ear, they do represent the “equine happy...

It hurts, but you can’t look away. Horse owners can be a bit particular when it comes to the grooming care of their horses. Hunter-jumpers are constantly trying to achieve the perfect pulled look while many breed competitors or western horses aspire to have long, luscious...

The horse was saddled and harnessed, presumably ready to go at a moment’s notice, when Mount Vesuvius erupted. Suffice it to say, the horse, which was waiting in a stable of a villa just outside the walls of the city of Pompeii, didn’t make it....

Rhodococcus equi, a Gram-positive facultative intracellular pathogen, is one of the most common causes of pneumonia in foals 1-6 month of age. While it can cause significant economic losses, researchers are still working to understand how and why it develops and how to prevent it. Epidemiology The...

PRINCETON, Minn. (FOX 9) - Warmer weather this week has spurred “thin ice” warnings across the state. And on Wednesday in Princeton, crews responded to a rescue unlike most others. It wasn’t a car or snowmobile under the water, it was a horse. Her name is...

"You’ve owned your senior horse for a long time. You’ve been through ups and downs with him, and it’s clear as day when he’s not feeling his best. But do you know how well he can see and if he’s developed ocular disease? Recent study results...

FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — His name was Champ, but he was no champion. Severely underweight and riddled with ulcers, the brown horse had been rescued from a northern Colorado feedlot when Kassidy Webber first met him in 2014. Then a high school sophomore living in Arvada,...

It’s called “swamp cancer” but acts more like a fungus. The disease has killed a wild pony at the popular Chincoteague Island in Virginia and sickened several others. The Chincoteague Volunteer Fire Co., which helps care for the wild horses, said on its Facebook page that...

On the banks of France's Arve river, the horse the Germans could not kill faced his most dangerous mission yet. The star-foreheaded Warrior, who arrived on the Western Front in August 1914, had survived four years of shells and bullets, come through the horrors of Ypres,...