All Horses | February 20, 2009
This article shared with me via Twitter:
19 animals taken from farm that started as a rescue [link]
New Hope Farm in New Paris was a venture between friends, but help dwindled as time wore on.
Emily Monacelli | Feb. 18, 2009
NEW PARIS — The rescue organization from which 19 animals were removed Friday started as an effort [...]
All Horses | February 12, 2009
An update to the story about Mouse, the horse injured prior to the Obama inaugural parade, is a happy one.
FrederickNewsPost.com reports on Feb. 5:
Ears pricked, Mouse stepped eagerly off the horse trailer Wednesday and looked around at the waiting crowd as if he were expecting applause.
Mouse, a 10-year-old dark appaloosa gelding, arrived with his owner [...]
All Horses | September 27, 2008
Regardless of papers or performance, I hate to think of anyone breeding horses when thousands are being neglected and starved to death across the country because there are so many unwanted, or in many cases, well-loved but owners are simply unable to afford their care.
Why roll the genetic dice when you can pick up a [...]
All Horses | September 25, 2008
Another sad report, this one from Cottonwood’s Safe Haven Horse Rescue in California:
Not a day goes by when Linda Richards doesn’t hear from someone who needs to give up a horse. “I’ve been doing this for 13 years and this is the first time it’s ever been this bad,” said Richards, who runs the nonprofit [...]
All Horses | September 23, 2008
Too close for comfort, this story begins within an hour away, and ends just a few miles from home.
This story broke with a frantic plea for help on Craigslist:
I am in need of a caring person to give this horse a forever home. This is the story:
Two nights ago in the middle of the night [...]
All Horses | September 18, 2008
re: Washington: malnourished horses.
Another article on the case.
Once again, horses are finding new homes before the defendants have their day in court. What happened to innocent until proven guilty?
I’m still skeptical, maybe by nature or maybe from experience… one horse was for sure malnourished, but the other two seemed simply underweight and not in [...]
All Horses | September 17, 2008
More on a case reported earlier this week.
Couple faces multiple counts of cruelty to animals after dead and malnourished animals found on their property in Knox County. Last week, officials responded to a complaint of malnourished horses. They discovered at least one horse, a rabbit, five dogs, one cat and three roosters dead on the [...]
All Horses | September 12, 2008
This is exactly what I fear will happen more and more with the glut of skinny horses being sold at auction for $5, $10, $25 a head.
Animal graveyard [link]
Knox couple charged with 16 counts of animal cruelty after starved, dead dogs and horses found
Samantha Swindler | Sep. 12, 2008
Animal Shelter Manager Amy Young pokes through [...]
All Horses | September 5, 2008
Screencaps show one severely malnourished horse, and two others that are thin but not starving. One I would consider moderately underweight, and the other somewhat underweight (very little of this one on the video).
Neglected horses rescued from Fruitland [link] Tania Dall | Sep 5, 2008
Three malnourished horses from Stevens County are being nursed back to [...]
All Horses | September 3, 2008
When someone literally cannot afford to feed their horses, at what point does it become a crime?
Santa Fe Shelter Tries To Save Malnourished Horses [link]
KOAT.com | Sep 3, 2008
A horse shelter in Santa Fe is trying to save a pair of once-starving animals.
One Santa Fe horse shelter is offering help for horses. The shelter said [...]
