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State bill aims to protect horses at auction Suzanne Bush of East Coast Equestrian reports: Representative Liz Hanbidge (D-Montgomery County) has introduced legislation aimed at providing a layer of protection for horses being sold at auction. HB 2193 amends legislation from 1983 which established licensing and regulation requirements for auctioneers who sell horses. Hanbidge’s bill… Continue reading New Regulations Proposed for PA Horse Auctions
MARCH AGAINST HORSE SLAUGHTER — News of the Horse reports that the livestock auction in New Holland, Pennsylvania, is banning photos and videos. New Holland auction is notorious among horse lovers chiefly because it is one of the largest sales rings where horses are dumped in some of the most deplorable circumstances imaginable and preyed on by meat… Continue reading Livestock auction in New Holland where meat men prey on horses is banning photos and videos
via YAHOO NEWS NEW HOLLAND, Pa. (AP) — Animal cruelty officials in Pennsylvania are investigating after a horse riddled with over 100 paintball remnants was found abandoned at a stable. Officials from the Lancaster County SPCA tell LNP (http://bit.ly/1XrDV9o) they were called to New Holland Sales Stables on Monday after the mare was found in… Continue reading Horse abandoned at New Holland Sales had been hit with more than 100 paintballs
LANCASTEROnline Reported by Tom Knapp Pennsylvania — A Mifflin County man was found guilty of nine counts of animal cruelty leading to the death of two horses and leaving a third in sickly condition. Charles Fisher of 900 Lockport Road, Lewistown, was charged in connection with an incident July 27 outside a New Holland auction… Continue reading Horse dealer guilty of animal cruelty after New Holland sale attempt that left two horses dead
Public Opinion reports: Harrisburg, PA -- A hearing has been moved to Feb. 21 for a Chester County woman who allegedly took a retired thoroughbred from Chambersburg and sold it to be slaughtered in Canada for human consumption. Kelsey Elva Lefever was scheduled to have a preliminary hearing Feb. 6. The date has been moved… Continue reading Preliminary hearing reset in Kelsey Lefever horse slaughter fraud case
Cross-posted from the Telegram & Gazette Written by PAULA J OWEN When horse trainer Matthew D. Clarke found out that Munition, a 7-year-old thoroughbred gelding he had trained, had been sent into the slaughter pipeline, he was devastated. Mr. Clarke has trained horses for more than 40 years and is the farm manager for the… Continue reading Fatal transactions: Sale of a horse can be a death sentence
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