“Horsefeathers,” says Coalition to Ban Horse-Drawn Carriages founder NEW YORK CITY, N.Y.––Voters For Animal Rights was quick to declare victory on October 30, 2019 when the New York City Council passed a bill banning the sale of foie gras from force-fed ducks and geese and a bill creating a Mayor’s Office of Animal Welfare within […]
Santa Anita deaths just a fraction of the toll in horse racing
Breeding & slaughter drive the industry SANTA ANITA, California; SYDNEY, Australia––A year-long nightmare string of fatal racehorse breakdowns continued at Santa Anita Park through October 2019 with the deaths of horses named Emtech, Colonel, Satchel Paige, and C Q Covergirl, the 35th fatality on the Santa Anita dirt, turf, and training tracks since December […]
Wild horse problem needs 15 years, $5 billion, says acting BLM chief
“I’m not going to speculate on what Congress is going to do about money,” Pendley adds. FORT COLLINS, Colorado; CALGARY, Alberta––Returning the U.S. wild horse population to the officially estimated sustainable level of about 27,000, without mass roundups for slaughter, will take 15 years and $5 billion of investment, acting Bureau of Land Management […]
Obits: defenders of cats, dogs, wild horses, bees, crabs, & elephants
Elaine Adair, Dayton Hyde, Susan Rudnicki, Alana Cutland, & Matthew Talbot had in common service to animals Elaine Adair Elaine Adair, cofounder of the Mississippi Spay & Neuter Alliance (MS-SPAN), born Elaine Girton on October 15, 1950 in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, died after a long struggle against cancer on October 14, 2019, one day before what would […]
Fur sales, wildlife acts, & hiding dog bite history banned in California
Fur-bearing animals & adopters of shelter/rescue dogs win protections SACRAMENTO, California––The new animal-related law in California that Governor Gavin Newsom and mass media said least about, to help protect Californians against recklessly rehomed dogs with bite history, may in the end become the most emulated among the raft of bills sent to Newsom’s desk […]
Hurricane Dorian helps to solve the mystery of the extinct Abaco wild horses
But Dorian destroys remnants of a 50-year effort to save the herd TREASURE CAY, Little Abaco, Bahamas––“This is like listening to a cosmic version of Ravel’s Bolero. Feeling nervous about when the brass kicks in,” wrote would-be wild horse savior and local dog rescuer Milanne “Mimi” Rehor, in her last posting to Facebook before […]
Did the Omak Suicide Race start with a horse massacre & the KKK?
Uncovering the nasty origins of an ugly event OMAK, Washington––The 86th annual edition of the bizarre and often deadly “World Famous Suicide Race” held annually in Omak, Washington, is to be held nightly, August 8-11, 2019. Bizarre as the race itself is, even more bizarre––and perplexing––is that the 12 Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation […]
Galveston mock lynching may hasten police horse era to an end
Incident “makes me want to cry,” says former mounted police officer Beth Clifton GALVESTON, Texas––Two Galveston mounted police officers clipped a handcuffed homeless and reportedly bipolar black man to a rope, with a noose at the other end of the rope, and walked the man between their horses eight blocks through the city streets […]
Rescued dogs overheat––and pigs & chickens, as humane oversight fails
If rescue transporters can’t keep dogs from cooking in crates, what happens to livestock? NEW YORK CITY, TORONTO, LONDON (U.K.)––Again a New York City-based dog adoption transport has come to grief in hot weather, again leaving the rest of the adoption rescue transport to wonder why. Recounted Gabrielle Fonrouge of the New York Post […]
Three more chuckwagon horses killed as Calgary Stampede 2019 ends
Six horses killed in 10 days; most since 1986 CALGARY, Alberta––The 2019 Calgary Stampede ended on the night of July 14, 2019 with reportedly the second-highest attendance in the history of the event, and three more horses killed in the climactic last heat of the Rangeland Derby, the chuckwagon races that for almost a […]
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