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Two comments, each from a horse racing insider, give a concise explanation of what is wrong with the industry. “[T]he 2008 Kentucky Derby isn’t about horses. It’s about MONEY!” blares an advertisement in a glossy
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of its $37 million horse budget just for such basics.
Under the “Wild Free-Roaming horses and Burros Act of 1971” (the legislation that prohibits commercial capture of wild horses but mandates government roundups) the
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studies I worked within the horse industry, as a groom, in a variety of settings including horse rehabilitation, competition riding, and therapeutic riding. I entered the horse industry as a fairly dissatisfied commercial researcher, with a
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House Passes Horse Protection Legislation
Late last week, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Restore Our American Mustangs (ROAM) Act (H.R. 1018), which would protect wild Horses and burros from slaughter and more
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being of today's performance horse could be
substantially enhanced with care that acknowledges the relationship
between domesticated horses and their forerunners. Feral horses
typically roam in stable, social groups over large grazing
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one hospital near me offers horse therapy to breast cancer victims. The patients are helped to emerge from the pain of their experience by grooming and riding "their" horse. With new research validating that many animals feel empathy,
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and articles related to horses in their most recent issues.
Society and Animals features an article by Lynda Birke titled "Learning to Speak horse," about the rising popularity of the "natural horsemanship" (NH)
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Strider: The Story of a Horse, London's The Call of the Wild, Woolf's Flush: A Biography and contemporary works Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand, The Life of Pi by Yann Martel, and The Dogs of Babel by Carolyn Parkhurst are the selected texts
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Update on horse cruelty case in Jackson and discussion of revisions needed to the forfeiture statute.
Deborah MacDonald , Michigan Humane Society, Humane Investigator
Investigating animal cruelty and forming
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animals (cattle, oxen, horses, and sheep) cruelly, or to inflict unnecessarysuffering upon them. The recent legislative history of the country attests to the same continuing concern,as encapsulated in the highly publicised Hunting Act (2004)
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