US Space Force hires a horse

LIVE SCIENCE writes: The United States Space Force has a new recruit in their mission to keep planet Earth safe. His name is Ghost, and he likes to go clip-clop on the beach. Ghost, a 5-year-old mustang, is the newest addition to the Conservation Military Working Horse program, which the Space Force recently inherited from the U.S.…

The role of horses in working society

Civilization was built on the back of a horse. A bit of history The Equine Heritage Institute writes in an article entitled, "The Role of the Horses in Human Societies": "Most people think of history and civilization as being made and created by men, but often, history and the development of human societies and civilizations…

Petition China to stop importing donkeys to use their hides for medicine

Andrew Gregor of Lafayette, California started a Change.org Petition China currently imports tens of thousands of donkeys primarily from African nations in order to slaughter them. They do this in order to extract gelatin from the donkey hides. Innocent animals are being shipped overseas and butchered in order to produce ejiao, a traditional Chinese medicine…

Bethlehem’s police horses to get new home

Nicole Radzievich reporting for The Morning Call writes: Bethlehem's [Pennsylvania] four police horses will be moving into some new digs come fall. Friends of the Mounted Police, a nonprofit that raises money for the unit, has signed a lease for 10 acres of land next to the Holy Saviour Cemetery on Linden Street. Allentown Diocese,…

Detroit-based company to continue funding Detroit police horses

The unit has a long history of police work dating all the way back to 1893. • Click on Detroit reports: The Detroit Police Department's mounted unit is one of the oldest in the country, and it will be around for at least the next three years thanks to a funding commitment that was announced…

Horses around the World: Kashmir

Featured Image: A Kashmiri man on a horse rides past walls of snow on the Zojila Pass, about 68 miles north of Srinagar, in Indian-controlled Kashmir, Saturday. The Srinagar-Leh national highway connecting Ladakh to the Kashmir Valley was re-opened to traffic Saturday after remaining closed for nearly six months. Dar Yasin/AP Horses suffer at the…

Horses begin their annual return to Mackinac Island

I love how they make it sound like it's the horses' idea! What they should say is that people are beginning their annual return of horses to Mackinac Island. And no, we are not against everything, just most things. —Editor. Cross-posted from MLive.com They say: MACKINAC ISLAND, MI -- Teams of horses began to return…

Arabbers acquitted of most serious charges

As usual there is no one to speak up for the horses. —Editor Cross-posted by the Baltimore Sun By JESSICA ANDERSON A Baltimore district judge acquitted six arabbers Friday of the most serious charges stemming from an inspection at a Hollins Market horse stable last year. Judge Nicole Pastore-Klein made the ruling on abuse and…

Free to good home: Horses who have served their country

Kennedy and Quincy, highly trained horses who have served in the Army’s Old Guard at Arlington National Cemetery, have finished their tours of duty. And both are up for adoption, free to a good home. By JULIE ZAUZMER The Washington Post HE RECEIVED received good marks in his early days in the military: “quite impressive,”…

NYPD horses move into their new digs at Mercedes House

by AMY PLITT Cross-posted from NY.Curbed.com For years, the NYPD maintained tucked-away—but easy to, um, smell—stables on Pier 76 in Hell's Kitchen for its squadron of police horses. But as of this week, the horses now have new, fancier digs in an unlikely spot: Mercedes House, the ziggurat on West 53rd Street. (Yes, even NYPD…