Record 216 wild horses captured this year in Alberta

Cross-posted from the Calgary Herald Written by STEPHANE MASSINON A record number of wild horses were captured in Alberta this year — a sevenfold increase from the average — and many are slaughtered for their meat, said the president of the Wild Horses of Alberta Society. Alberta allows for the humane capture of wild horses,…

Canadian Wild Horses at center of controversy

Cross-posted from TheHorse.com Written by Christa Lesté-Lasserre A Canadian logging company wants the number of free-roaming horses in Alberta reduced, but a Canadian wild horse advocacy group argues that the company's complaints against the horses are unfounded. Sundre Forest Products' spokesperson Tom Daniels said the herds have grown too numerous for the area, are destroying…

Cold Blood: The Alberta Wild Horse Murders

Cold Blood Since 2002, Alberta’s wild horses have been picked off with brutal abandon. Who is responsible? Written by KEVIN CHONG | The Walrus (Canada) “The ravens are nature’s tattletales,” Bob Henderson tells me as we drive through the winter-parched foothills west of Sundre, Alberta. In December 2008, while leading a photographer through the area,…

Trainer says free-roaming horses are indigenous species (CAN)

Viewing free-roaming horses as wildlife rather than feral livestock may help reduce the shootings and other cruelties that have taken place in the West Country, says a horse trainer from Sundre. But a feral horse by any other name is still a horse, and the person or people who have been shooting them won’t care…

Reward for wild horse killers grows (CAN)

By KATIE SCHNEIDER | Edmonton Sun | Posted May 4, 2009 CALGARY -- The senseless slaughter of four wild horses near Sundre has garnered international outrage, while the reward to catch their killer has grown again, to $25,000. The shooting deaths of four horses, including a foal about to be born, has struck a chord…