Kathy Schwartz-Howe, co-founder of Days End Farm Horse Rescue, dies at 71

WOODBINE, Md. — Animal rescue and welfare advocates are mourning the loss of a pioneer. Kathy Schwartz-Howe, co-founder of Days End Farm Horse Rescue in Woodbine, died Monday at the age of 71, following a battle with Alzheimer's. Kathy Schwartz-Howe, who has died at 71, began Days End Farm Horse Rescue in 1989. © DEFHR.…

Pride and Joy Rescue saves 8 baby horses from Kansas kill pen

FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live) — Last week we shed light on a local Non-Profit asking the public for help with donations to make a trip to Kansas to save baby horses on their way to a kill pen. Pride and Joy received word on a truckload of foals being transported to a kill pen…

Building a retirement home for NYC carriage horses

Via Bloomberg News | New York City | 23 Dec 2022 New York politicians have long promised to do away with carriage horse rides. An animal sanctuary wants to step in either way. By Amelia Pollard Tucked between northern Westchester’s golf courses and Tudor-style mansions, an 18-acre patch of land in South Salem, New York,…

I saved an abused, broken horse. Or did she save me?

By Courtney Maum | The Guardian | 27 April 2022 ON A BALMY DAY in early October, I found an aged polo pony named Abuelita panting in a locked stall, her matted hair bearing the mark of the saddle that had recently been on her, a gash across her cheek. Her legs were trembling from…

More than 20 horses rescued from illegal slaughter farm in S. Florida

Did you see this? BELL, Fla. (WCJB) — Over 20 horses have been rescued from an illegal slaughtering farm in South Florida by a local rescue operation. According to the Okeechobee County Sheriff’s Office, a complaint saying a horse was quote "in distress” and couldn’t get up as well as buzzards and horse bones scattered…

Starving horse becomes safe and happy

First Taste of Freedom This horse was so hungry that she stuck her head in an electric fence looking for food. But now she's gotten plenty to eat and feels like a whole new horse. Today she's about to find out she has a whole field of grass to run in! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hTarWb0C9M&t=7s

Blind horse finds way back home

By DON SERGENT | The Daily News | Mar 1, 2020 BOWLING GREEN — It might have been the most satisfying whinny Catherine Limkeman had ever heard from Declan, the horse she transported from Ozark, Ill., to Warren County's Rainhill Equine Facility. After she led Declan — a 12-year-old thoroughbred/quarter horse mix — on a…

The woman who has saved 500 horses from slaughter

Here's How She Did It by IHeartHorses.com We live in a world where animals do not have a voice. It is our job to help them. Often times, we are their saviors from certain death. For one woman living in California, she wanted to do something for unwanted horses that were being sold for slaughter. It’s…

Deaths of rescued slaughter bound horses a painful reminder not much has changed

HORSE SLAUGHTER (by Vivian Grant Farrell) — 2017 has been a tough year for many reasons. The toughest for me personally has been the deaths of two beloved horses. Fourteen years ago, when Texans for Horses became the Fund for Horses I rescued four slaughter bound Quarter horses from a Texas feedlot. They had no…

Breeding kindness: No animal turned away at safe haven for horses in Elburn

HORSE RESCUE — David Sharos, freelance reporter for The Courier-News, writes: St. Charles resident Kris Anderson doesn't regard herself as a horse whisperer, but she does admit hanging around horses has made her a more sensitive human being. "Being around them has given me more of a unity and connection with living things," Anderson said. The…