Owner of starving horses rescued from BC mountainside fined (CAN)

Cross-posted from the Vancouver Sun Story by ELISE STOLTE, Edmonton Journal Image not filed with this story. EDMONTON — Edmonton lawyer Frank Mackay has pleaded guilty to an animal cruelty charge and has been fined for leaving two horses on a British Columbia mountainside whose rescue sparked a huge volunteer effort. Residents near Mount Renshaw,…

Justice for Jalupae is rallying call in horse-hanging case (CAN)

Justice for Jalupae Today the Times Colonist reports: --- The anticipated court appearance of two Brentwood Bay men, charged in a case where an emaciated horse was killed by hanging, brought about 60 demonstrators to the sidewalks outside the Victoria courthouse yesterday. Many in the group were waving homemade signs, a number of which said…

Horse starved and strangled (CAN)

The two Canadian men accused of starving a horse and hanging it by an excavator bucket have been named by the British Columbia SPCA. They are Brentwood Bay residents David Whiffin and Clayton Cunningham. Crown counsel has charged the pair with animal cruelty after a 27-year-old Appaloosa gelding named Jalupae was allegedly starved to the…

Brentwood Bay residents charged after horse starved and hanged (CAN)

UPDATE: December 31, 2009. The Hearing of this case was reset for January 4, 2009 at 9:00 a.m. Whiffin's attorney cleverly got this date at the end of the holiday season, hoping to dodge media attention and a similar type of rally held outside the courts at the original where nearly 60 people lined the…

Abandoned horses in trailer seized by Canadian police (CAN)

Cross-posted from Horsetalk A 74-year-old man has been charged in Edmonton, Canada, after police found several horses abandoned in a trailer on the roadside. "When officers opened the vehicle, they discovered seven horses standing in faeces and urine," said Staff Sergeant Blair Edl, of the West Division of Edmonton police. Police checked out the trailer…

MLA seeks protection for Sask.’s wild horses (CAN)

Encouraging news from Canada. A private member's bill was introduced last week to make it a crime to harm the ponies of the Bronson forest. The ponies were being shot en masse. Thank you, Tim McMillan. Canadians, support this legislation. Cross-posted from the Star Phoenix, a Canwest Publication By JAMES WOODS A tiny population of…

Neudorf Memorial for slaughtered horses “crashed” (CAN)

Twyla Francois of the Canadian Horse Defence Coalition organized and conducted a memorial tribute for the more than 100,000 horses brutally slaughtered at a Neudorf abbatoir closed by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency this past February. Standing at a chainlink fence outside the Natural Meat Plant, near the final resting place for these tortured and…

CHDC calls for audit of horse slaughter operations (CAN)

REGINA , April 7 /CNW/ - With the news that the Natural Meat Company (formerly Natural Valley Farms) in Neudorf, Saskatchewan has been shut down by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) for food safety concerns, the Canadian Horse Defence Coalition (CHDC) is calling for a complete audit of Canada 's remaining horse slaughter operations…

BC SPCA vows to pursue charges in case of starving horses (CAN)

Cross-posted from the Globe and Mail By JOSH WINGROVE The B.C. arm of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is looking to send a "message" to livestock owners by pursuing charges in the case of dozens of feral horses who were found either starving or dead on an inner-B.C. native reserve last…

Tilson tables petition to ban horse slaughter (CAN)

Cross-posted from David Tilson MP parliamentary website March 11, 2009 PARLIAMENT HILL – David Tilson, Member of Parliament for Dufferin-Caledon, rose in the House of Commons today to table a petition calling for a ban on the slaughter of horses and on their export for the same purpose. When asked about the petition, Tilson said,…