All Horses | September 12, 2008
re: Too bad lasik doesn’t fix barn blindness!
I don’t get why people see this and think it is starving, sad and malnourished.
[photo removed due to copyright holder's request]
He’s a young horse, just 3. I hate to see a hog-fat horse, but especially a hog-fat young horse still growing.
He’s an ungelded colt. Studs are going to [...]
All Horses | August 16, 2008
Since there has been nothing to update recently on this case, I’ve been busy on other projects:
All Horses
Site for horse lovers to publish pages about related topics and get paid.
• www.allhorses.us
Blogs
• Obese Horse of the Day
• Skinny Horse of the Day
• Horse Slaughter Debate
• Unsafe Horse Fence
I welcome all comments, from those who disagree as [...]
All Horses | August 14, 2008
This is an update to a previously posted case.
RAID: Trading post targeted by police and animal cruelty investigators [link]
Rick Pfeiffer | Aug 14, 2008
A businessman faces 17 animal cruelty charges after State Police and Erie County SPCA investigators raided his Bedell Road stables on Tuesday afternoon. SPCA investigators seized 12 horses and five sheep from [...]
All Horses | July 27, 2008
Sometimes I agree with the FHOTD blogger.
Sometimes I don’t.
Today, I’m not so sure I can agree with both her assessment and some of her readers’ assessments on this horse:
Comments:
“Are you one of the ignoramuses who thinks it’s skinny because it’s old and that’s normal? … why DIDN’T the judge and/or show management tell these people [...]
All Horses | July 12, 2008
Walked through the horse barns at the local fair the other day.
Most horses — and I was actually a little bit surprised by this — were in really good weight.
Many, more than half, had a mild “crease” down the center of the rump that showed they were certainly not malnourished. There was nothing I [...]
All Horses | July 3, 2008
Check out this indepth (quite long) article on caring for the skinny horse in the herd.
An excerpt:
Some horses are metabolically inclined to be hard keepers while others have medical, psychological or environmental reasons for having difficulty in maintaining weight. Increasing the caloric intake of a horse is not [...]
All Horses | June 30, 2008
The Obese Horse of the Day blog is up and just getting started.
One of the first entries is a must-read on how harmful obesity in horses can be, and the shocking prevalence of it (over fifty percent of horses in a recent study were found to be overweight; with nearly a fifth of the [...]
All Horses | June 29, 2008
Let me preface this entry: no one said he was starved by his previous owner, but that could be due to his reported history of being rescued from a farm where horses were allegedly dying in the field, six months ago.
This is a 2 year old TWH.
He’s fed and fit but not fat.
They aren’t supposed [...]
All Horses | June 29, 2008
Skinny Horse of the Day has a sibling!
The name was inspired by the Fugly Horse of the Day blog, but the similarities end there.
I will profile random horses selected from photos available to the public in an effort to show that obesity in horses should be no more acceptable than malnutrition at the opposite end [...]
All Horses | June 27, 2008
Here, I see a horse that is moderately underweight.
I see a flat but not sunken rump, prominent withers (not a good indication of anything except just that … a horse in any condition can have high withers) and the beginning of visible ribs.
The hip does not appear to jut out and I’d like to see [...]
