While the brother of a South Korean rider killed in an eventing accident arrived in Qatar on Friday to collect the body, equestrian officials defended their decision to continue running the cross-country competition after the man died in
Animal safety workers removed five “significantly underweight” horses from a property in Rye, N.H., where the owner had been convicted of cruelty to animals in 1999.
One of the horses required serious medical attention and is at a local
A young zebra at the Virginia Zoo in Norfolk, Va., has died in a freak accident following a rabies shot.
Zoo spokeswoman Alison Swank says zookeepers administered the shot with a blow dart gun, but the zebra bolted, struck a fence and fell
South Korean eventer Kim Hyung-chil was crushed by his horse after missing a jump on a muddy equestrian course at the Asian Games in Doha, Qatar, on Thursday (Dec. 7), raising concern over how organizers managed the event.
It was the
Wild horses rounded up on the Carson National Forest northeast of El Rito in Taos, N.M., are available for adoption.
A contractor has captured 31 horses on the Jarita Mesa in an effort to reduce the population in the area.
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A horse rescue in Western Maryland involved the same Humane Society disaster team that responds to hurricanes, floods and forest fires.
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Animal control authorities said Sunday (Dec. 3) they have seized an estimated 74 horses and a 35-acre farm in Sharpsburg, Md., where poor care led to death, illness and malnourishment. Windrinker Farm owner Barbara P. Reinken, 61, denied More than two dozen foals were born this year to the wild horses of Corolla, N.C., pushing the herd above its designated limits and meaning more of the animals will be available for adoption. With about 30 foals, the herd stands at 108 On a ranch just outside of Browning, Mont., the sound of thundering hooves echoes across the prairie. Small herds of Spanish mustangs gallop across the wind-swept plains, tails streaming behind them. In the summer, children also run A former champion Quarter Horse abused by his previous owners has found a permanent home on a 140-acre Florida ranch. He’s Doubly Sonny brought $14,000 at a Polk County Sheriff’s auction two weeks ago, and already several people are The California state fairgrounds in Sacramento has agreed to a new monitoring program to try to keep waste from its horse stables from running into the American River. The agreement is part of a settlement of a lawsuit filed in 2003 by The Thoroughbred racing industry in West Virginia’s Eastern Panhandle has grown so much in six years that it now helps employ more than 3,600 people and has an annual economic impact of $173 million, a study released Thursday High prices and scarce supply for hay this season are leading to abandoned horses, according to animal-welfare groups. “This is the first year where people are literally just opening the gate and kicking them (the horses) out,” said Chuck The University of Wisconsin-Madison hopes to land a new high-security federal lab where scientists would help lead the nation’s research on deadly animal diseases. The lab would be operated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. For the first time since 1922, police officers on horseback are patrolling Kansas City, Mo., streets again. The unit got started in mid-August and the first two police horses are slowly getting acquainted with their new city surroundings A state audit says a woman who handled payments for Auburn University’s large animal clinic owes the school $83,623 after she apparently failed to deposit money from customers over a five-year period, but her attorney says a faulty computer may Stay on top of the most recent Horse Health news with FREE weekly newsletters from TheHorse.comSponsored ContentWeekly PollReaders’ Most PopularPartners in Equine Health
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