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Via EIN PRESSWIRE News Release WASHINGTON, DC, UNITED STATES, December 16, 2019 /EINPresswire.com/ — Two national horse protection organizations today blasted Congress’ decision to increase the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Wild Horse and Burro Program budget by $21 million budget to accelerate the roundup and removal of federally-protected wild horses and burros from public… Continue reading Spending bill sets stage for eradication of America’s Mustangs
Carol Walker of Wild Hoofbeats reports: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has released a Scoping Document with a 30 day public comment period on 5 of the largest wild horse herds in Wyoming: Adobe Town, Salt Wells Creek, Great Divide Basin, White Mountain and Little Colorado. I have been visiting, observing and photographing the… Continue reading BLM targets 5 wild horse herds for destruction in Wyoming
URGENT CALL TO ACTION Please join The Cloud Foundation with us. Call your U.S. Senators using the following script. If no one answers, please leave a voicemail. Script: 1. Hello, my name is ____________ and I live in _______________. My phone # is ______________. (Give all that info upfront for simplicity) 2. I am asking… Continue reading Wild horses need our voices; Cloud call to action
BARBARO, the 2006 Kentucky Derby winner, answered the starting bell at the Preakness Stakes, moments before jockey Edgar Prado pulled him up with a broken hind leg. Eight months later, he would die of the complications from that injury. Nothing has changed since the death of Barbaro and the tragic Eight Belles. More horses are… Continue reading Remember Barbaro
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Horse Racing) — It's Derby Day, Louisville's biggest event of the year, even bigger than Christmas and most likely generates more revenue than that blessed event ever will. There is nothing blessed about horse racing, especially the drug and death riddled variety put on in the USofA. An example of whereof we speak… Continue reading How one snapped, dangling leg changed a heart forever
Cross-posted from Horse Racing Wrongs by Patrick Battuello WRITTEN AND REPORTED BY JOY ATEN Just two days ago, another trashed racehorse was recovered from a kill buyer. Thanks to a rescuer who makes weekly visits to the notorious New Holland auction, a 5-year-old gelding named Financial Mogul narrowly escaped a tortuous trip to the slaughterhouse.… Continue reading Shedrow Secrets: The vile betrayal of racehorse Financial Mogul
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