Ex-racehorses to be rehomed rather than slaughtered under new Queensland plan

ABATTOIR TO BE LAST RESORT Queensland racehorse owners will have to prove they have tried to rehome their animals multiple times before they can apply to send them to slaughter, under recommendations set to be implemented by the State Government. Key points: An independent inquiry made 37 recommendations to reduce horse slaughterA racehorse rehoming scheme…

Horses abused with electric prods at 2019 Rowell Ranch Rodeo

HAYWARD, Calif. (Dec 12, 2019) — The Mercury News reported: Video footage apparently showing cowboys breaking the law by using electric prods twice on horses during last May’s Rowell Ranch Rodeo has prompted Hayward area park district officials to fine the company behind the event. Paul McCreary, the district’s general manager, said in a Dec.…

That’s what freedom looks like

by VIVIAN FARRELL My Dad was a single parent. He took me with him everywhere. One of those places was Las Vegas. There wasn't a lot for a 15 year old to do in Las Vegas. So when I asked him what I was going to do while we were there, he said something like,…

The true celebration will be when we end horse soring

Take action to eliminate horse soring and "big lick" animal cruelty. Elizabeth Fite, reporting for the Times Free Press writes: The biggest competition for the Tennessee walking horse breed begins Wednesday in Shelbyville, Tennessee. For some, the 11-day Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration — often called the Celebration — embodies the best of the breed and…

Roy Exum: Soring Will Still Thrive

We quote the following from Roy Exum's column of yesterday. Exum, who has covered the horse soring issue for some years from his home base of Tennessee for The Chattanoogan, states what appears to be patently obvious to many, sometimes even us. It's about the future of the anti horse soring bill in the U.S.…

Rapa das bestas Spain 2019

Spain is not a country any of us at The Horse Fund would spend vacation time or money on. Spain retains a core savagery that is unsettling and disgraceful. Spaniards revel in holding on to their gory, barbaric and outdated customs and festivals, many of which involve the horrific treatment of animals. Horses are too…

Ovariectomy experiments planned again for wild mares

The Cloud Foundation and other wild horse advocate groups are once again fighting to protect the Warm Springs mares from ovariectomy experiments. Yes again. Shocking and immoral. An ovariectomy is just what the term sounds like — the surgical removal of ovaries. Despite having been stopped time and time again through the legal actions of…

BLM Nevada Holding Hearing on Vehicle Use in Wild Horse Mgmt

The BLM is seeking public input on the use of motorized vehicles and aircraft in wild horse management and monitoring on public lands in Nevada. EDITED PRESS RELEASE The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will conduct a public hearing to discuss the use of motorized vehicles and aircraft in wild horse and burro monitoring and management on…

Horse Fund’s Top Horse Cruelty Issues of 2016

The long awaited Top Horse Cruelty Issues of 2016 and corresponding Year in Review are finally on their way. 2017 started off in a tumultuous fashion and it does not look like it is going to slow down any time soon insofar as horse cruelty issues go, or cruelty to animals in general. It is tragic and we simply do not understand it. We have…

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…