During the first quarter of this year Habitat for Horses brought in around 40 new horses. Most of those were from a major seizure of 17, which included quite a few pregnant mares. The estrays are a different story. Those are the horses and donkeys...
A horse slaughterhouse in Quebec closed its doors this past week. The Les Viandes de la Petite Nation (LPN) slaughterhouse shut its doors as a result of the new European Union regulations requiring all horses slaughtered for human consumption be held for 180 days prior...
During the summer of 2013, a 16-year-old girl and her mother came to our ranch to discuss the possibility of adopting a horse. Lauren knew a little bit about horses, but this was her first venture into taking full responsibility for everything a horse needs. They...
It's one of those things you don't think about until it's too late: It's early Sunday morning; you slip out of bed and get ready to walk out to the barn to feed the horses. The wind picks up. Lightning bolts crash close by, the...
The images are shocking. Horses with hooves that have never been trimmed, hardly able to walk because they are in so much pain. Horses hardly able to stand, their bodies reduced to skeletons. Not just one or two horses … over two hundred. Fortunately, justice...
The seizure took two days. When we started no one knew the number of horses back in the woods or the condition of the majority of horses. The seizure warrant was based on the horses we'd seen from the road and the one laying in...
This video is a few years old, but it is still true to this very day. Habitat for Horses rescues starving, neglected and/or abused horses. It is our mission to aid law enforcement with their horse abuse investigations, aid them with seizures, rehabilitate the horses...
She was found wandering lost and hungry. The sheriff's department kept her for 15 days at their stables, giving her owners plenty of time to realize that their horse had gone missing and contact them. No one did. Habitat for Horses was contacted by the...
[caption id="attachment_33429" align="alignleft" width="323"] Willie with his horse Voodoo - a HFH rescue horse[/caption] We have so much going on to share with you. As we announced yesterday, we learned that Willie Nelson's video - The Love of Horses - that prominently features Habitat for Horses,...
