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Battle to Save Horses from Slaughterhouse
Jennifer Morrison, The Star, Feature — May 2008
The 20 horses competing in today's Kentucky Derby have spent the week being primped and pampered in their Churchill Downs stable digs, cameras fixed on every move, handlers mindful of every step they take: they are royalty on four legs...
The Slaughtered Horses Who Shame Our Racing
Antony Barnet, The Observer, Feature — October 2006
An undercover Observer investigation has revealed the shocking fate of thousands of British racehorses. Now campaigners want new laws to govern the sport...
Saving the Horses
Alicyn Leigh, Long Island Press, feature — August 2006
Apparently, these slaughterhouses use accounting loopholes to pay little or no taxes, shipping 100 percent of the horsemeat and the profits abroad...
India's Silent Victims: The Mistreated Horses
The Independent Online, feature — March 2006
The horse, unlike the venerated cattle or even the meandering packs of street dogs, is an abused commodity in India's capital, the victim of not only those who also fight for survival on the highways, but also its very keepers and those who seek to remedy its injuries...
Wild Horses Denied Free Rein
Electa Draper, Denver Post, feature — December 2005
The realities of the Bureau of Land Management wild horse and burro program are different from the romantic images painted then by Congress and still held by many Americans...
PRCA Rules Governing the Care and Treatment of Livestock at PRCA Sanctioned Rodeos / Comments from SHARK
Showing Animals Respect and Kindness, SHARK, feature — May 2005
Given the recurrence of the same behavior year after year by some PRCA stock contractors, there is no reason to believe that there are any sanctions whatsoever for violations of PRCA "humane rules"...
Tussle Over Mustangs and Desert Habitat
Brad Knickerbocker, Christian Science Monitor, feature — March 2005
"To suggest that an acceptable solution to a federal agency's management shortcomings is commercial slaughter is an irresponsible approach to our public lands and the wildlife that roam them," says Rep. Nick Rahall...
The Chincoteague Ponies
Friends of Animals, feature — February 2005
Every year, local officials round up this group of horses on the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge, so some 80 foals can be auctioned off...
'Shrek' Donkeys Being Neglected
BBC, feature — February 2005
Both the original Shrek film and the sequel, charting the adventures of a green ogre and his donkey friend, have proved extremely popular with children. Practising vet Mr Jinman says he has been receiving an increasing number of calls about donkeys over the past three years...
Premarin: Seeing Fear in the Eyes of the Foals
Marc Paulhus, HSUS, feature
Their eyes were opened so wide that the white rim normally hidden from view was visible. The youngsters whinnied and huddled together, trembling, crammed onto the sale floor at a crowded and noisy livestock auction in Canada. The bidding had begun...
The Texas Massacre: Horse Slaughter in America
Laura Moretti, Animals Voice, feature
There has been no rest for the incredibly, terribly weary. They arrive utterly exhausted, frantically falling over themselves as they dangerously slip on the feces- and urine-slicked floors of the two-tier cattle truck that has brought them here...
Mestengo. Mustang. Misfit. America's Disappearing Wild Horses
Laura Moretti, Animals Voice, feature — 2001
It is believed that the horse is the only domesticated animal capable of reverting to a wild state after escaping human bondage... Senator McClure, believing the horse to be a useless free-loader on public lands, set out to help get rid of them...
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