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Why are some Fort Polk horse rescuers celebrating the births of surplus foals?

February 18, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Another Fort Polk “rescuer” faces charges in Florida horse deaths             FORT POLK,  Louisiana––Why are some wild horse rescuers in Louisiana celebrating the births of multiple foals who have nowhere to go except from sanctuary to sanctuary,  if they are lucky? Why were alleged dealers in horses for slaughter Crystal LeBron,  Gary Thompson,  Jacob Thompson,  […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Animal organizations, Feature Home Bottom, Feral animals, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Sanctuaries, Slaughter, USA, Wild horses, Wildlife Tagged With: Amy Hanchey, Crystal LeBron, Jacob Thompson, Merritt Clifton, Panhandle Animal Welfare Society, Shandi Lebron, Shandy LeBron, Todd Ahlman

Alleged “horses for ransom” brokers busted in Louisiana

March 27, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

“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 […]

Filed Under: Animal organizations, Animal racing, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Horse racing, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Racing, Slaughter, USA, Wild horses Tagged With: Dina Alborano, Eric Mitchell, Gary Thompson, Hal Parker, Jacob Thompson, Merritt Clifton, Ray Paulick, Steve Haskin, Victoria Keith

The Fort Polk horses: last stand of the U.S. cavalry

August 17, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Wild horses on military land are not protected             FORT POLK,  Louisiana––Fifty-four miles south of Zwolle,  Louisiana,  where the last cavalry-against-cavalry battle fought by the U.S. Army was staged during the Louisiana Maneuvers of 1941,  a 25-year series of conflicts over the fate of alleged descendants of those horses may be nearing an end. An […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Feature Home Top, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Sanctuaries, Slaughter, USA, Wild horses, Working horses Tagged With: Amy Hanchey, Jacob Thompson, Janet McConnaughey, Kim Reischling, Leonidas Polk, Merritt Clifton, Philip Sponenberg

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