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Author:jfinch
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Mar 2022
Many years ago, Habitat for Horses stopped a shipment of registered Paints from going to slaughter. While there were a lot of strange twist and turns involved, we ended up 200 miles from the ranch with two long horse trailers full of anxious and...
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Feb 2022
“What in the world are they building?” When we found her on that cold winter morning, she was laying in the weed-filled ditch, struggling to keep her head out of the muddy water. She was exhausted, her body temperature far too low, as close to death...
Reprinted with permission from https://www.rspca.org.uk/-/blog-curtain-close-on-horse-abuse A guest blog by Dr Mark Kennedy, our senior scientific manager for equines. Looking at the horse in the above image, with bandaged legs and strange 'platform shoe' contraptions applied to his hooves, you'd be forgiven for thinking that he's in a veterinary...
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Apr 2021
There is no basis for any of the following other than the wisdom of a very wise old cowboy. Everyone called him Boss, because he was. He managed the horse corrals where I got my first real job. Boss was the perfect image of the old West, a tobacco-chewing, spittin'...
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Feb 2021
"When a horse gets older, you can expect physical changes. Typically, they lose muscle tone, and they certainly move a lot slower."Those words of wisdom are from a course I recently took on aging horses. Nothing surprising there, but the next day, in an entirely...
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Jul 2020
It isn’t unusual for us to bring in a horse that has been so starved, beaten, and abused that they have given up on the will to live. They are some of the hardest cases to bring back from the edge of death. There is...
Wildlife ecologist and champion of wild horses Craig C. Downer is fronting a new documentary showing the positive contributions that wild horses and burros make to ecosystems. Over the years Downer has been fighting to protect wild horses and burros from elimination on the...
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Oct 2019
Acting BLM Director William Perry Pendley told the Society of Environmental Journalists in Colorado on Friday that wild horses were the biggest problem facing federal public lands in the West. The silliness of this statement becomes obvious when one considers that wild horses don’t exist on...
“Rebecca is Superwoman,” says Barbara Mackey, Habitat for Horses board member and founder of the Bill and Barbara Mackey Foundation for Animal Welfare, run by the Greater Houston Community Foundation. “She is so tenacious, no matter what obstacles come up. She is there 24/7....