By Sue Wallis, CEO, United Organizations of the Horse
Cheyenne, (UOH) – Times are hard, especially in the horse business, and in these uncertain economic times people are just not able or willing to financially support fundraising efforts. This has made it difficult to complete our Dodge truck raffle that we started at the National...
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SAN RAFAEL, CA (IDA) – In Defense of Animals (IDA) today praised the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) for issuing three safety violations, including one classified as “willful,” to SeaWorld Orlando as a result of the death of Dawn Brancheau, a dolphin trainer killed at SeaWorld by Tilikum, a male orca.
“Orcas are apex predators...
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By Terry Farley, Photo by Leslie Peebles
Monday, I could not see inside the Cattoor family’s wild horse trap. With binoculars, I could see what went on just outside.
Men waved flexible whips attached to plastic bags, spooking mustangs into trailers. They also flipped the whips to prod the thick ends into mustangs’ flanks, or slam...
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Series by Lisa LeBlanc ~ Chief Investigative Reporter, Straight From the Horse’s Heart, R.T. Fitch
Photo by Leslie Peeples
Arriving at the Litchfield Holding Facility at around 6:00 a.m., just before dawn, we were briefed by ‘Jeff’, a uniformed BLM representative on the rules of conduct. Most pointed: Disruptions or jeopardizing of safety would discontinue regular...
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United States Senator Mary Landrieu has called for a halt to BLM “gathers” in which scores of wild horses have been killed.
http://thehill.com/special-reports/animal-welfare-july-2010/111513-wild-horses-symbolize-us- Landrieu Also Called for End to Horse Meat Trade http://thehill.com/special-reports/animal-welfare-july-2009/55639-animal-welfare-prevention-of-equine-cruelty-act-seeks-to-vanquish-us-ties-to-horsemeat-tradeeedom
Allegations have exploded that horses are laying dead in the field after “gather” and that a wild horse was driven over a cliff to...
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By Steven Long
HOUSTON, (Horseback) – When Laura Leigh, an author, artist, journalist, and litigant chased the BLM into the desert to observe wild horse capture after a federal judge told her she could do so, she wasn’t allowed to see horses – but she did see water.
Judge Larry Hicks lifted his temporary injunction and...
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Pro Slaughter Advocates on Side of Free Spending Federal Agency
CHEYENNE, WY (UOH) – The United Organizations of the Horse calls for compassion and the redoubling of efforts to gather and remove excess wild horses from the Owyhee Desert, and all other areas of the West where there are too many horses for the ecosystem to support....
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By Vicki Tobin, Special to Horseback Magazine, Photo by Cat Fisher
CHICAGO, – Despite Judge Hick’s order on Friday, July 16, equine advocate, Laura Leigh, was denied access to the trap site for the Owyhee round up, one of three herd areas comprising the Tuscarora round-up. When questioned, the authorities responded that she was not...
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By R.T. Fitch, Straight From the Horse’s Heart, Special to Horseback Magazine, Laura Leigh photo by Terry Fitch
HOUSTON – (SFTHH) – This evening we received a phone call from artist and wild horse advocate Laura Leigh that she had not been allowed to travel to a Federal Bureau of Land Management trap site after a federal...
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By Laura Allen, Animal Law Coalition, Photo of Plaintiff Laura Leigh by Terry Fitch - Judge Larry Hicks has lifted the injunction prohibiting BLM from proceeding with the Tuscarora roundup. The judge has also denied plaintiff Laura Leigh’s motion to delay the roundup until August, after the foaling season, particularly as to the Owyhee Herd...
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