All Horses | September 15, 2008
Anticipated abandonment increase due to costs of feeding horses skyrocketing out of many owners’ reach.
Officials expect more abandoned horses [link]
ED MERRIMAN | Sep. 15, 2008
As fall approaches, Oregon officials expect more horses will be abandoned as a result of record-high hay prices, higher transportation costs, and the closure of the nation’s last horse slaughtering plants.
Don [...]
All Horses | August 23, 2008
Both feral and domesticated.
Oregon’s horse population outpaces ability to care for them [link]
Richard Cockle | Aug 23, 2008
Joan Steelhammer planned to care for 35 unwanted and neglected horses this summer at her nonprofit central Oregon sanctuary. It didn’t work out that way. Steelhammer’s Equine Outreach on 20 acres near Bend Municipal Airport, is feeding 1 [...]
All Horses | August 15, 2008
The media can’t get enough of the “plight of the mustang” …
American horses threatened [link]
Jerry Abbott, Kevin Bottrell and Tyler Richards | Aug 15, 2008
BLM currently has the responsibility for the health and management of America’s wild horses and burros. In the past few months, They have sent a distress signal that the current 33,000 [...]
All Horses | August 15, 2008
Long article on the BLM Wild Horse and Burro Program cash crunch.
U.S. may slaughter thousands of horses [link]
Ginger D. Richardson | Aug. 15, 2008
Budget woes threaten West’s wild herds
Last weekend in Show Low, 19 mud-splattered wild horses and burros found a new home. Theirs was a journey that started weeks ago on the open ranges [...]
All Horses | August 10, 2008
Better off as burger than wasted, left to rot in a pit or burned.
Seriously, give me a reason other than “horsies are pretty” that we can’t sell them to France or Belgium for a ridiculous sum of money that can be used to fund the Wild Horse program for years to come…
Thousands of wild [...]
All Horses | August 8, 2008
Recap of this week’s news:
Aug 2—Wild horses wait as fate is decided [link]
With holding costs approaching $30 million this year, the BLM’s suggestion is to euthanize some of the more than 33,000 horses … officials argue it’s the humane way of dealing with the problem instead of letting them die of thirst or starvation on [...]
All Horses | July 27, 2008
I’ll try to edit this to shorten it up a bit, but the full (long) story is available at the link.
Wild horses tax efforts to save [link]
Nancy Lofholm | July 27, 2008
America’s wild horses have become a costly problem with no easy solution, according to the agency that has managed — or, in some opinions, [...]
All Horses | July 17, 2008
Salt Lake City, Utah …
Authorities searching for abandoned horse’s owner [link]
Associated Press | July 17, 2008
Millard County authorities are searching for the owner of a horse abandoned in Utah’s western desert. The horse was found June 27 near a gravel pit, about 30 miles west of Delta. Deputies say the 7-year-old horse was emaciated when [...]
All Horses | July 9, 2008
How do you choose which horses to feed and which must go without?
Hard times nip at horse owners, too [link]
JENN WIANT | July 9, 2008
The increasing costs of food and fuel are forcing McHenry County residents to cut back on extraneous expenses to make ends meet. For Christy Bourbonnais of Harvard, rising food costs also [...]
All Horses | June 11, 2008
Why not?
Horse slaughter ban causing problems, some owners say [link]
Carol Barrett | June 11, 2008
While at the Washington, D.C., fly-in, the Livestock Marketing Association group met with the chair of the House Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee, Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., to discuss the recent horse slaughter ban.
DeLauro’s subcommittee voted to end federal funding for the slaughter [...]
