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'...
"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...
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...
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....
We fought a lot of battles these last few years, and we brought a lot of horses, donkeys and a mule or two back into a good life. We also made a lot of friends, shared a lot of tears and laughter and spent a...
ARCADIA, Calif. (AP) — Santa Anita's troubled racing season has come to a close after the deaths of 30 horses at the Southern California track rattled the industry and led to Hall of Fame trainer Jerry Hollendorfer being banned when four of his horses were...
Opinion by Jerry Finch co-authored with Allen Warren In the last couple of weeks, the world of wild horses has been thrown into a state of turmoil. The two national humane societies, ASPCA and HSUS, along with Return to Freedom and a few others, joined in with...
Equine herpesvirus myeloencephalopathy (EHM), the neurologic disease linked to equine herpesvirus type 1 (EHV-1), was confirmed in a Montgomery County, Texas, reining Quarter Horse on April 9, 2019. The positive horse attended a reining event in Ardmore, Oklahoma, the week of March 18. TAHC staff has...