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Roy Exum: Hypocrisy And Horses

jfinch — Fri, 24 May 2013 12:10:31 +0000

The Chattanoogan.com | Thursday, May 23, 2013 | by Roy Exum I am still wincing over the fact a horrendous bill passed in the state legislature that would make whistle-blowers into criminals would have actually gone into law had it not been for Governor Bill Haslam’s eleventh-hour veto. Called the “Ag-Gag bill,” similar efforts in other [...]

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“They Rescued Me” Photo Contest Closing May 31!

jfinch — Fri, 24 May 2013 00:21:34 +0000

Nine weeks. Nine potential winners. One of you will receive 1,000 pounds of Purina Horse Feed. Who will it be? It won’t be you if you don’t enter the contest. At midnight on May 31st, the contest will close. Once we put the nine top photos up, the public, meaning you, will have a chance [...]

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Horse in Texas gets prosthetic lower leg

jfinch — Thu, 23 May 2013 16:45:18 +0000

CHRISTOPHER SMITH GONZALEZ, Galveston County Daily News, Wednesday, May 22, 2013 DICKINSON, Texas (AP) — A grassy lawn under a few shade trees is not the ideal place to amputate a horse’s leg. Dr. Ric Redden, a world-renowned veterinarian who has specialized on horse’s feet, knew this, but he also knew that you do what you [...]

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Scientists find ancient horse fossils

jfinch — Thu, 23 May 2013 12:08:16 +0000

SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY MUSEUM May 22, 2013 San Bernardino County Museum scientists excavating an Ice Age mammoth skeleton from the Tule Springs area north of Las Vegas have found a skull and lower jaw of an ancient horse never before reported at the site or in Nevada. Horses are not uncommon in the Tule Springs [...]

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Domino Effect ranch passes inspection with malnourished horses

jfinch — Thu, 23 May 2013 01:42:42 +0000

The Examiner, MAY 21, 2013, MARYANN TOBIN Hernando County Animal Services responded to Domino Effect ranch in Weeki Wachee on Monday, after complaints of visibly malnourished horses came from the Humane Society of the United States and dozens of concerned citizens. An inspection of the horses in the care of ranch owners Robert and Denel Ashcraft was performed by [...]

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Australia set to kill 10,000 horses

jfinch — Wed, 22 May 2013 11:43:15 +0000

ABC News, Gail Liston, May 21, 2013 The Central Land Council has started a cull of up to 10,000 horses on Tempe Downs Station in the Northern Territory. The council has issued a public health and safety warning to keep people clear of the property near Kings Canyon, about 300 kilometres south-west of Alice Springs. [...]

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Over 100 feared horses dead in OK

jfinch — Wed, 22 May 2013 00:58:27 +0000

By Esther Marr | Bloodhorse More than 100 horses are thought to have perished in the massive tornado that hit the Moore, Okla. area May 20 in addition to the human lives that were lost. Dr. Glenn Orr and Tom Orr’s Orr Family Farm near Moore, Okla., which sits on the 106-acre Celestial Acres Thoroughbred training center, [...]

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Horses Killed in Oklahoma Tornado

jfinch — Tue, 21 May 2013 11:51:53 +0000

http://kfor.com/2013/05/20/moore-man-survives-tornado-in-horse-stall/ (Note – Reports from Off Family Farms are that 75 to 100 horses were killed by the storm. – Jerry) MOORE, Okla. (KFOR) — When the massive tornado hit Moore, Okla., Monday, some weren’t able to make it to their basements. One man was on a family farm at the time, noticed the wind [...]

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OpEd: Some people really believe this stuff…..

jfinch — Sun, 19 May 2013 22:46:03 +0000

Just my honest opinion: Jerry Finch The anti-slaughter folks have listened and responded to the propaganda machine of the AQHA and their sister organizations for years. Now those same organizations are sacrificing themselves to present you with more lies and distorted facts so you can change your opinion to their almost God-like opinion of the [...]

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Local Horse Rescue Offers Alternative to Slaughter

jfinch — Sat, 18 May 2013 14:15:30 +0000

Seattle PI, Candace Calloway Whiting, May 17, 2013 In 2004 this sensitive and kind horse, Dakota, was purchased for fifty cents per pound to prevent her and the foal she carried from being slaughtered. The farmer who owned her had wrung all the use he could from her, and even though she was malnourished and [...]

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