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Did the Omak Suicide Race start with a horse massacre & the KKK?

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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

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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

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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

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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 […]

Four schemes to save 70,000 wild horses from a BLM Apocalypse

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What the Trump administration plans & what wild horse advocates hope to do about it             WASHINGTON D.C.––The infamous Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse,  riding a white horse,  red horse,  black horse,  and pale horse to sow Pestilence,  War,  Famine,  and Death,  are prophesied to come galloping at wild horses in the guise of Oil,  […]

Wild horses on non-BLM land: showdowns in the High Sierras

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Where the Bureau of Land Management does not reign,  it’s the wild west             ALTURAS, Calif.;  VIRGINIA CITY,  Nevada––Two hundred miles and strategic worlds apart,  on either side of the California/Nevada border,  side-by-side experiments are underway in how to most effectively prevent wild horses from being sold to slaughter when […]

Alleged “horses for ransom” brokers busted in Louisiana

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“Killer buyers,”  associates of killer-buyers,  & partners in questionable rescues             FORT POLK,  Louisiana––Thompson Horse Lot owner Gary Thompson,  64,  of Pitkin,  Louisiana,  who held a controversial contract to remove an estimated 700 to 750 wild horses from the 198,000-acre Fort Polk military installation,  is facing 18 counts of cruelty to animals for alleged severe […]

Diane Chontos of Wild Burro Rescue charged with felony neglect

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Sanctuary endured 35 years,  but failed to thrive OLANCHA,  California––At least 67 U.S. animal shelters,  nonprofit animal rescues,  and animal sanctuaries failed in 2018. Twenty have failed in the first 75 days of 2019,  a record pace,  obliging other shelters,  rescues,  and sanctuaries to take in thousands of often severely neglected animals,  especially dogs,  cats,  […]

Will Santa Anita figure out what’s killing race horses? Don’t bet on it!

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Investigators are only 3,500 years behind Chinese potters in figuring out that wood ash hardens clay ARCADIA,  California––Cro-Magnon troglodytes apparently never figured out that wood ash hardens clay,  despite having many millennia of opportunity to do so. Thus the failure of the Santa Anita Park management to investigate the effects of soot and ash fallout […]

Ahmed el Sherbiny, 66, brought “humane spring” to Egypt

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Headed three leading organizations CAIRO,  Egypt––Ahmed el Sherbiny,  66,  who with his British-born wife Jackie led the Egyptian Society of Animal Friends,  the Egyptian Federation for Animal Welfare,  and the Middle East Network for Animal Welfare,  on March 7,  2019 died at home in Shabramont,  Giza,  a Cairo suburb,  after several years of fighting multiple […]