Vote for Doodle saved from slaughter competing to help another

Joan Steelhammer, founder of Equine Outreach in Crook County, Oregon, gives a home to 100 horses, many spared from slaughter. "Theses horses aren't here because they're damaged, or they're discards, or they have health issues or behavioral issues," Steelhammer tells Mackenzie Wilson of KTVZ. "For the most part, these horses are here because they have…

Hero Jan Steelhammer brings wild horses home from Warm Springs auction

Cross-posted from Equine Advocacy Examiner Written by MAUREEN HARMONAY | 20 June 2010 Against all odds, Joan Steelhammer did something that no one thought was possible. The founder of Equine Outreach in Bend, Oregon orchestrated safe passage for all of the horses offered for sale at yesterday's Warm Springs auction. Not only did they not…

Auctioned Wild Springs Mustangs may face bitter end

Cross-posted from the Equine Advocacy Examiner Written by MAUREEN HARMONAY Wild horses at upcoming Wild Springs Indian Reservation auction could face a gruesome future For the last eight years, the tribal residents of the sprawling Warm Springs Indian Reservation in Wasco County, Oregon, have rounded up countless wild horses who roamed their extensive million-square-mile territory,…