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For the love of horses, many happy trails

December 17, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

by Beth Clifton   On April 26, 1777, eight nights after Paul Revere rode his horse into our history books, spreading word that British troops sent to suppress American independence from Britain were advancing on Concord,  Massachusetts,  a 16-year-old Connecticut girl named Sybil Ludington set out into the countryside on her horse Star for what […]

Filed Under: Feature Home Middle Right, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Opinion, Opinions & Letters, Other horse topics Tagged With: Beth Clifton, Sybil Ludington

How best to euthanize a horse?

March 2, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

You recently wrote these sentences that are at odds with best and standard practices in the horse industry:  “But horses are rarely killed by pentobarbital,  since the required dose would be about 100 times the average dose for a dog and several hundred times the average dose for a cat.  Rather,  when horses are euthanized […]

Filed Under: Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Letters, Opinions & Letters, Other horse topics, Slaughter Tagged With: Liz O'Connell, Rebecca Gimenez, Sharon Cregier

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