Adoption & Rescue

Matchmaking Horse Finds a New Home

Southern Start Fury, an 18.1 hand Shire horse featured as a Matchmaking Adoptable Horse in the Dec. 20, 2006, The Horse Health E-Newsletter has found a new home! Fury will be traveling from Frog Pond Farm, a draft horse and pony rescue in Ohio, to a

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Slaughter Bill Ban On Wild Horses Introduced Today

A bill to restore the 34-year ban on the commercial sale and slaughter of America’s wild, free-roaming horses and burros (H.R. 249) was introduced today (Jan. 5) by U.S. House of Representatives Nick Rahall (D-W.Va.) and Ed Whitfield (R-Ky.).

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El Rito Ranger District Plans Wild Horse Adoption

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.


Carson

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Animal Disaster Team Rides to Rescue

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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Authorities Seize 74 Horses from Maryland Farm

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

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Former Champion Horse Finds Permanent Home in Florida

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

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All Heart Inc. Debuts DonateMyHorse.com

All Heart Inc. has launched a Web site that will connect prospective adopters with horses needing good homes. The site will offer listings from across the nation with advanced search options that facilitate the match of donor and adopter. All

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Mother, Daughter Sell Art to Cover Cost of Horse Care

It all started with a blind horse.


Dianne Hooker said her daughter Fawn, now 14, went horseback riding for the first time when she was seven years old and became completely enthralled with the animal.


“She fell in love with

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For Love or Money?

Was it for love, or money? H.L. Mencken wrote that when someone says “it’s not about the money,” it is about the money. This cynicism is more clever than true. For most of us, most of the time, it’s about both. It has to be.

Let’s be

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