As wildfires rage across Oregon and Montana, among other states, thousands are evacuating with horses in tow. We’ve got details on the current state of the fires as well as tips for ensuring your horse’s safety.
The Senate Committee on Appropriations passed its Fiscal Year 2018 Agriculture Bill today, including an amendment that would prohibit funding horse slaughter inspectors — in contrast to last week’s similar bill in the House.
Representative Chris Stewart of Utah authored the amendment, which passed with a voice vote in yesterday’s Interior Appropriations Bill markup session.
The mark up sessions for a critical appropriations bill take place tomorrow, with the potential to begin funding horse slaughter facility inspectors and re-open American equine slaughter once again.
Hundreds of wildfires are raging across British Columbia with a dozen designated as posing a high threat to public safety. Ten thousand people have evacuated, leaving everything behind, including their horses.
The historic Massachusetts track has been scaling back on live racing for years, but with a sale expected to close soon to a development company, it appears that Suffolk Downs’ days are truly numbered.
Language in the Bureau of Land Management fiscal year 2018 budget justification, released yesterday, specifically requests “the ability to conduct sales without limitations.”
Nicole Wells is charged with disorderly conduct and wearing a mask or disguise, after her antics in a dinosaur costume caused two commercial carriage horses to spook on Thursday, May 18 and injure the driver.
With local partners, the Humane Society of the United States is heading to the remote Supai Village in Arizona to help treat the reported abused horses and educate owners on equine welfare.
Gentle Carousel Miniature Therapy Horses lost two of its equine therapists this month in Florida at its home base after a distressing attack by loose dogs.
A new rule effective March 31 in Canada appears on paper as though it may reduce the number of horses imported for slaughter — but will it really change the industry, or simply lead to falsifying records?
Guest contributor Cathy Purdy details the plight of donkeys all over the world thanks to a rapidly-growing market for their hides, threatening to wipe out the species itself.
Rapidly-rising floodwaters in New Zealand trapped a herd of polo ponies on what used to be high ground — fortunately, the clever herd found its way to safety.
Fast-moving wildfires tore across parts of Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma and Texas in the first half of this week, killing 3 ranch hands in Texas with countless livestock killed or injured.
