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Fire, horses, & Santa Anita: ashes,  ashes,  they all fall down?

March 8, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

A global warming connection to record racehorse deaths? ARCADIA, California––All eyes concerned about horses and horse racing have had the Santa Anita Park turf and track surfaces under microscopic examination since Ash Wednesday,  March 6,  2019. Yet hardly anyone so far seems to be looking at the possible track-hardening effects of soot and ash deposition […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal racing, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Horse racing, Horses, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Racing, USA Tagged With: Andy LaRocco, Art Sherman, Beth Harris, Ingrid Newkirk, Merritt Clifton, Mick Peterson, Rick Arthur, Rick Baedecker, Ron McAnally, Scott Jagow, Tim Ritvo

Down Under drive to kill brumby wild horses brings bill to save them

May 26, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Man from Monaro stands in the bootprints of The Man From Snowy River             SYDNEY,  Australia––In a reversal of fortune as abrupt as a stallion wheeling on hind legs to strike at an aggressive rival,  the wild horses of Kosciuszko National Park in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales are suddenly slated for protected […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Conservation, Donkeys, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral animals, Habitat, Hooved stock, Horses, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws, Politics, Wild horses, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Arian Wallach, Banjo Patterson, Calla Wahlquist, Don Driscoll, Erick Lundgren, John Barilaro, Madison Young, Merritt Clifton, Sandy Radke, Tom Lowrey

Under the Skin: How ejiao threatens the common ass

March 10, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

The Donkey Sanctuary saddles up Free download from https://www.thedonkeysanctuary.org.uk/under-the-skin/full-report Reviewed by Merritt Clifton          BEIJING––Can demand for a commodity that constitutes only one ten-thousandth of the global market for traditional Chinese medicine really pose what Donkey Rescue World blogger David C. Duncan calls “an existential threat” to barnyard animals as abundant worldwide as donkeys? This is […]

Filed Under: Africa, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, China, Cultural, Culture & Animals, Donkeys, Europe, Food, Food & agriculture, Food & agriculture, Fur & leather, Global, Hooved stock, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, India, Indian subcontinent, Isles, Live markets, Live transport, Meat issues, Pakistan, Slaughter, South Africa, Sub-Saharan, United Kingdom Tagged With: David C. Duncan, Given Sigauqwe, Govan Whittles, Merritt Clifton, P. Naveen, Savanna Myszka

Pimlico death again raises question: why do bettors favor beaten horses?

May 21, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

Did “a right-handed rousing” contribute to winning horse’s apparent cardiovascular collapse? BALTIMORE, Maryland––“Rallied under a right-handed rousing”  by jockey Horacio Karamanos,  according to the Pimlico Race Course chart-writer,  the official record-keeper for the race,  Homeboykris charged from behind to win the first race of the May 21,  2016 card culminating in the Preakness Stakes,  the second […]

Filed Under: Animal racing, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Behavior, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Horse racing, Horses, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Isles, Racing, United Kingdom Tagged With: Dan Barry, David Evans, Homeboykris, horsewhipping, Merritt Clifton, Paul McGreevy, Pramedya, Smarty Jones, Triple Crown

Eight times as many wild horses Down Under as in U.S., plus camels

December 10, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

Contraception considered but more culling expected          SYDNEY,  Australia;  DENVER,  Colorado––The brumby issue in Australia and the mustang issue in the U.S. differ chiefly in that the Australian federal government estimates it is dealing with about five times as many wild horses,  sharing habitat with livestock and feral camels. While the U.S. now has nearly 80,000 […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Cattle & dairy, Feature Home Middle Right, Feral animals, Hooved stock, Horses, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Sheep & goats, Slaughter, USA, Wild horses, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Banjo Paterson, Conrad Burns, Dennis V. Chavez, Linda Silmalis, Martha Mendoza, Merritt Clifton, Staci Matlock, Tom Davis, Tom Pogacnik, White Australia

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