Purdue University students are making some extra cash through a project that might turn some of their classmates’ stomachs–by sniffing livestock excrement. Students earn $30 per session as they take whiffs of a variety of smells collected from
Bait laced with rabies vaccine will be dropped from airplanes in 44 Texas counties in an effort targeting coyotes and gray foxes.
The Texas Department of State Health Services annual oral rabies vaccination drop begins Jan. 6 from the Zapat
When lightning struck the Stewart Home School’s barn this past fall and burned it down, Tia Marie made it out alive.
This week, pupils greeted the chestnut American Saddlebred for its first return since the Nov. 5 fire.
The owner of a Fort Collins, Colo., animal rescue shelter says she will try to raise $10,000 for a bond so she can reclaim 27 animals seized by county officials over allegations that
A new study shows the number of horses, ponies and mules in Virginia grew 26% between 2001 and 2006.
The 2006 Equine Survey Report was released this month by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics
Authorities seized 27 animals from the Animal Angels Horse Rescue ranch in Fort Collins on Dec. 29.
Larimer County Sheriff Jim Alderden says the owner faces multiple charges of animal cruelty.
Officials seized 16 horses, ponies,
A horse rescue agency that operates in North Carolina and two other states has taken in almost double the number of abused and neglected horses it usually accepts each year, and more than half came from North Carolina.
Workers with the
Amid growing concern over drug-resistant superbugs and nonhealing wounds that endanger diabetes patients, nature’s original antibiotic–honey–is making a comeback.
More than 4,000 years after Egyptians began applying honey to wounds, Derma
An Algiers, Ala., man has been found guilty of 10 counts of animal cruelty after being accused of keeping horses on his property with limited food and water, a prosecutor said.
A criminal District Court commissioner last week found Dave
Astride sturdy mustangs named “Okanogan” and “Spurs,” U.S. Border Patrol agents Darrel Williams and Justin Hefker ride quietly along a ridgeline above the Similkameen River valley.
The mustangs are among a dozen the Border Patrol’s Spokane
It’s an unlikely story of a 25-year-old mare and her 62-year-old rider competing on the endurance ride circuit.
Over a seven-year span, the duo, starting at age 18 and 54 respectively, completed more than 1,000 miles. The horse is now
Alexander Gonzalez, 11, of Tucson, Ariz., would like to bring his Miniature Horse, Bailey, home for Christmas.
It doesn’t seem like a tiny pet horse would be much of a problem high up in the rugged foothills of the Santa Catalinas, with all th
State agriculture officials plan to charge a Shorter, Ala., man with animal cruelty after finding three dead horses on his property and six others allegedly undernourished.
State Agriculture Commissioner Ron Sparks said Wednesday his
Clydesdale breeder DeVere Clay was known far and wide for the horses he raised before he and his wife died, along with two granddaughters, from fumes while sleeping in a horse trailer in October.
Now his prized horses are going to new
Confetti the Miniature horse is Cheryl Spencer’s eyes and goes with her everywhere, one of the few guide horses helping the blind in this country.
As she once did with guide dogs, Spencer walks with the 6-year-old spotted tan and white
A company that ran what was the country’s last remaining horse-slaughtering plant plans to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review an Illinois law that forced the facility to close this fall, a lawyer said.
“We are planning to file a petition
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