Epoch Times | Mary Silver | May 7, 2013 [caption id="attachment_18602" align="alignleft" width="300"] Sarah Lee, age 8, and Bekah Dirrim, age 9, play with ponies at Barn Buddies. (Kathy Lee/Barn Buddies)[/caption] Early childhood education specialist Kathy Lee has seven children, five of whom are adopted. One of...
Pat Raia, The Horse, May 4, 2013 The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is studying the spaying of fertile wild mares in order to control the growth of the wild horse population. But the agency's senior wild horse and burro program adviser said that use of...
May 4th Update - Reports are that this event has been cancelled! Thanks to everyone that put in the effort to act. May 1, 2013 www.HorseHumane.org There is a donkey roping competition planned for this Saturday, May 4th in Sonora, Texas. Donkeys will be roped and tortured for...
Animals' Angels Report Animals' Angels latest Freedom of Information Act request only increased our concerns over the BLM's treatment of wild horses and burros. Among other things, the BLM's Palomino Valley Facility in Nevada seems to be drastically under-reporting the actual number of horses and burros...
WFMZ-TV | April 30. 2013 NORTH HEIDELBERG TWP., Pa. - Federal investigators have raided a horse rescue operation in Berks County. The FBI, acting on a federal search warrant, conducted the raid Tuesday morning atAnother Chance 4 Horseson Station Road in North Heidelberg Township. Agents seized computers, cell phones,...
Read more and COMMENT at the Daily Times [caption id="attachment_18225" align="alignleft" width="300"] Photo by TOM SHERLIN | THE DAILY TIMESAgents with the U.S. Department of Agriculture executed a search warrant at the Larry Wheelan horse barn April18 on Tuckaleechee Pike. The federal agents were assisted by...
[caption id="attachment_18129" align="alignleft" width="256"] Craig Downer[/caption] ( Craig C. Downer is a wildlife ecologist (UCalifBerk, UNevReno, UKanLawr, UDurhamUK) who has extensively studied both the wild horses of the West and the endangered mountain tapirs of the northern Andes. He has given speeches and written manyarticles, including encyclopedic, and...
Cape Cod Times |Gwenn Friss | April 14, 2013 [caption id="attachment_17927" align="alignleft" width="197"] Brittany Wallace, 17, attends to her horse Scribbles at her home in Harwich. Brittany had lost track of Scribbles, her childhood companion, but found a photo of her on a website hours before the...
San Francisco Chronicle | April 13, 2013 ROSWELL, N.M. (AP) — The New Mexico man seen in an Internet video swearing at animal activists before shooting a horse in the head will not face any charges. Chaves County District Attorney Janetta Hicks determined that while Tim Sappington showed poor judgment and insensitivity, his...
High Country News, Monica Gokey | Apr 11, 2013 (Interesting debate. While I disagree with her final analysis, it adds fuel to the fire of wild vs. feral. If horses are indeed native, they should not be removed from National Parks. If they are feral, then they should...