All Horses | January 28, 2008
Stock fence with openings large enough for a hoof to go through is not safe for horses.
Top it with barbed wire (common practice to keep cattle from “riding” the fence down) and we’ve got double the danger here.
A horse kicking at another horse in a neighboring pasture could get a leg stuck in the fence. [...]
All Horses | January 27, 2008
Dug up some long-neglected web pages that haven’t been updated in years, and created several new Squidoo pages:
http://www.squidoo.com/modelhorse
http://www.squidoo.com/modelhorsecollecting
http://www.squidoo.com/modelhorseshowing
http://www.squidoo.com/modelhorsecustomizing
http://www.squidoo.com/modelhorseetching
All Horses | January 23, 2008
Long read, but good balanced coverage from outside of these United States.
Views to a kill: The US horse slaughter debate [link]
Lewis Whitehall | January 23, 2008
The United States is home to 9.2 million horses. Each year, according to the Humane Society, an estimated 950,000 of them die by means other than slaughter.
The fate of the [...]
All Horses | January 18, 2008
Barbed wire fence has its place and purpose. It is pretty darn good cattle fence.
It has no place in the horse world, except for possibly a reference for tooling the skirts of a custom Western saddle.
All Horses | January 17, 2008
I’m in the process of updating my gaited horses “lens” at Squidoo, and looking for people who might want to submit photos, quotes or other information for publication.
Check it out, and thanks!
All Horses | January 15, 2008
American workers out of jobs, when they could be assuring that surplus American horses come to a quick, humane end on American soil.
U.S. horse slaughter exports to Mexico increase 312% [link]
R. SCOTT NOLEN | Jan 15, 2008
Despite American plant closures, slaughter continues across the border
Since all three U.S. horse slaughter operations were ordered closed [...]
All Horses | January 11, 2008
I have highlighted information I did not want overlooked, and will continue to do this in articles to follow. My own comments will be here at the end, or otherwise noted.
Horses Spared in U.S. Face Death Across the Border [link]
By CATRIN EINHORN | January 11, 2008
SHIPSHEWANA, Ind. — At the weekly horse auction here, No. [...]
All Horses | January 1, 2008
As a lifelong horse lover and someone who has owned, ridden and cared for a dozen horses my decision to support horse slaughter as an option for disposal of unwanted surplus horses was not a simple one to make.
The fact is, the worst case scenarios described before the slaughterhouses in the U.S. were shut down [...]
