A Montana couple is offering a $500 reward for information that leads to the arrest of the person/persons who cut hair from the couple’s horse’s tail earlier this month. Beaverhead County resident Bob Riley said he and his wife, Connie, discovered someone had cut about four feet of hair from their Morgan horse’s tail on Oct. 17. Hair from the tails and mane of three ho

Six horses are in USDA/Animal and Plant Health Services (APHIS) custody after U.S. Border Patrol agents impounded them from a pair of alleged smugglers near the California-Mexico border.

A federal court judge has denied wild horse advocates’ motion for an injunction to prevent a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) mustang gather in Colorado.

The BLM began gathering wild horses that had moved outside of the

The operator of a West Virginia equine rescue will pay a $1,000 fine and is prohibited from owning animals for five years after pleading guilty to one count of misdemeanor animal cruelty under a plea deal entered in Berkeley County Magistrate Court on Oct. 21.

The operator of an online database that tracks animal abuse cases nationwide is offering to help animal welfare authorities in New York develop the nation’s first registry for convicted animal abusers. Earlier this month, lawmakers in Suffolk County, N.Y., unanimously passed IR 1879, a bill that establishes an online animal abuser registry similar to databases containing infor

Santiago Cabrera, who along with Luis Miguel Cordero, is accused of poaching two horses and butchering them for their meat in Florida, will undergo neurologic and psychological testing to determine his competence to stand trial for the crimes. Miami-Dade County law enforcement authorities arrested Cordero on Sept. 15,

Officials at the University of Tennessee at Martin (UTM) are hoping that the offer of a $1,000 reward will lead to the arrest of whoever is responsible for shooting a horse used by the school’s equestrian team. Bud Grimes, UTM’s director of university relations, said a university student worker discovered the wounded horse in an university-owned pasture on Oct. 10. The animal had su

An Illinois man is facing animal cruelty charges after allegedly beating his horse, according to a spokesperson for the Edgar County State’s Attorney’s Office. Dennis Hollingsworth was charged with one count of cruelty to animals and one count of violation of owners’ duties, the spokesperson said. Hollingsworth is slated to appear in court on Oct. 21 to answer the char

When Alison LaCarrubba, DVM, Dipl. ABVP, head of the College of Veterinary Medicine’s equine ambulatory section, learned the Unwanted Horse Coalition (UHC) would lend financial support to establish a castration clinic at the university, she recognized the program as a way to deliver a valuable veterinary service to cash-strapped horse owners a

The names, addresses, and photographs of convicted animal abusers residing in one New York county will soon be displayed online thanks to a new law that establishes the first animal abuse offender database in the nation. Unanimously passed by the Suffolk County Legislature on Tuesday, IR1879 establishes an online animal abuser registry similar to databases containing information a

A group of wild horse advocates has asked a federal judge to stop the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) from carrying out a scheduled mustang gather in Colorado on grounds that the roundup violates federal regulations. The agency plans to gather an estimated 138 wild horses residing outside of the Piceance-East Douglas Herd Management Area southwest of Meeker, beginning Oct. 11, sai

Animal welfare authorities have filed multiple animal cruelty warrants for a Thoroughbred horse breeder who allegedly maltreated 35 animals on property he leased in Davie County, N.C. Bob DeWitt, animal cruelty investigator for the Davie County Sheriff’s Department said the warrants were issued after county animal welfare authorities acting on a tip about the horses’ condi

The operator of a West Virginia horse rescue has been charged with multiple animal cruelty counts in connection with the alleged maltreatment of animals on her Martinsburg farm. Last month, Berkeley County law enforcement authorities removed 53 allegedly malnourished horses from the Hidden Meadows Equine Rescue Inc. The animals are currently under rehabilitative care at various lo

More than 100 anti-slaughter protestors targeted horse processing plants, restaurants, and specialty butcher shops in 10 Canadian cities yesterday to promote support of C-544, legislation that would amend the Canadian Health of Animals Act to forbid the import and transport of horses for slaughter for human consumption in that country. Introduced into the Canadian House of Commons

Robin Vess, the Ohio horse trainer found guilty in April on more than 40 counts of second degree misdemeanor animal cruelty for maltreating Arabian horses on her Oak Harbor farm, was sentenced to 90 days in jail during an appearance in Ottawa County Municipal Court last week. Animal welfare authorities

A wild horse advocate is asking a federal court to stop the Bureau of Land Management from rounding-up animals anywhere gathers are planned. In a motion filed in U.S. District Court in Reno, Nev., on Sept. 24, Laura Leigh asked the court to grant a temporary restraining order ceasing all BLM helicopter round-ups and all other wild horse movement activities including the placement