Draft carriage horse ban to go before the full New York City council NEW YORK CITY––Horse-drawn carriages have never before appeared closer to being banned from New York City. New York city council speaker Julie Menin on October 13, 2026 announced that she and Mayor Zohran Mamdani had reached agreement on draft legislation to end […]
Mutilating horses & steers’ tails is cruel, agree Scotland & Illinois judge
McHenry County case brings first known convictions for steer-tailing GLASGOW, Scotland; WOODSTOCK, Illinois––August 2026 may be noted in some quarters as the month in which both the government of Scotland and circuit judge Justin M. Hansen of McHenry County, Illinois formally recognized that removing the tails of large quaduped grazing animals from their hindquarters constitutes […]
Dog & pony show: wild horses to slaughter, pit bulls to Miranda’s Rescue
Myth that “We can save them all” without contracepting problematic populations both dumps dead dogs in ditches & feeds wild horses to the meat trade FORTUNA, California; POTEAU, Oklahoma & WAUSEON, Ohio––One might observe that the Miranda’s Rescue saga playing since April 2026 in northern California and the Bureau of Land Management equines-sold-to-slaughter horse opera […]
Behind the Calgary & Omak Stampede wild rushes of frightened animals
Neither Stampede’s signature event resembles any authentic Old West or Native American tradition OMAK, Washington; CALGARY, Alberta––The 2026 “stampede” subset of the rodeo season, consisting most notoriously of the annual Calgary Stampede and Omak Stampede, ended on August 16, 2026 with the fourth and last running of the year of the Omak “Suicide Race.” Riders […]
NYC horse-drawn carriage war began with Dublin Carriages Act of 1853
Horse-drawn carriage fight now before the New York City Council also rages in Dublin, Ireland DUBLIN, Ireland; NEW YORK CITY––Horse-drawn carriages as New York City knows them arrived in the immediate wake of the passage of the Dublin Carriages Act of 1853. That, 173 years later, has much to do with political battles now underway […]
No more neighs for ban on New York City horse-drawn carriage trade?
Fights to enforce NYC foie gras ban & win governor’s signature to prevent octopus farming also still underway NEW YORK CITY, N.Y.––”New York City Council speaker Julie Menin just publicly endorsed Romanch’s Law, formerly known as Ryder’s Law, the bill that would finally end the horse-drawn carriage industry in New York City,” exulted newly designated […]
Steer-tailing yanked down by the tail in Ogle County, Illinois; SHARK wins
Venue owners surrender conditional use permit rather than face Showing Animals Respect & Kindness and the Humane Farming Association application for emergency injunction ROCHELLE, Illinois––Steer-tailers in the habit of converging on Rancho La Esperanza will have to jerk something else, somewhere else, after the property owners on July 10, 2026 relinquished the Ogle County conditional […]
“Where’s the beef?” California wolves ask. “It’s what’s for dinner.”
California wolves eat seven times more cattle than wolves in other states DAVIS, California––Are recently self-reintroduced wolves in California targeting cattle due to a scarcity of their natural wild prey, or just as easy prey? Wolves on their way into California, raising their first surviving litter in 2016, followed mule deer and elk herds through […]
Kangaroo cleats & Aqueduct horse racing: sports jump & run to change
Kangaroo leather soccer boots & thoroughbred racing in NYC, both now history, were both booming businesses not so very long ago QUEENS, New York––The ongoing FIFA World Cup soccer tournament, from which Team USA was eliminated on July 6, 2026 in Seattle, and the June 28, 2026 last race at the Aqueduct Racetrack in […]
Screwworms: can Best Friends Animal Society “save them all”?
Screwworm quarantines threaten adoption transport approach to achieving Best Friends’ “90% live release rate” threshold for “no kill” status AUSTIN, Texas––From agribusiness pundits to zoonotic disease researchers, online commentators were mystified on June 18, 2026 to see Best Friends Animal Society senior director of national programs Brent Toellner lined up to testify to the Texas […]