Ranchers in the old West saw their horse herds depleted by rustlers. Today people are abandoning unwanted domestic horses on ranches and public lands, noted a story on TheWorldLink.com originating from La Grande, Ore.
High hay prices and
Authorities in northern Idaho who recently found four dead horses and eight others that were malnourished say high feed prices could lead to more such cases.
“We all know that hay and feed prices are skyrocketing and that causes some people
Peruse a horse owner’s holiday wish list, and it’s a pretty good bet that most of the longed-for gifts thereon are more horse- than
A 22-year-old Texas man will serve nine months in jail for torturing and killing a yearling filly named Cowboy Chic in her pasture last October.
A jury convicted Kenneth Ryan Peterson of animal cruelty and felony criminal mischief in 11
Strong Santa Ana winds and a landscape already parched by drought have combined to help nearly a dozen fires spread across Southern California since the weekend. Many horse owners have evacuated, applying the lessons learned after a string of
One of the men charged with killing a Palomino filly in her Bryan, Texas, pasture last October was yesterday found guilty of cruelty to animals,
The remainder of the horses impounded from a Pike County farm in February will be offered for sale Saturday, Oct. 20 in an auction run by the Georgia Department of Agriculture (GDA) at the Mansfield Equine Impound Facility in Jasper County.
A woman convicted of animal cruelty for neglecting horses on her western Maryland farm has asked a judge to loosen the terms of her probation so she can move out of state.
Barbara P. Reinken, 62, wants to move to North Carolina but
American laboratories handling the world’s deadliest germs and toxins have experienced more than 100 accidents and missing shipments since 2003, and the number is increasing steadily as more labs across the country are approved to do the work.
Georgia Department of Agriculture Commissioner Tommy Irvin says horse abuse and neglect is on the rise statewide.
A drought that led to hay shortages, the closing of horse slaughterhouses, a downturn in the
Coles County, Ill., state’s attorney Steve Ferguson plans to file charges in the alleged horse neglect incident, but he wants to see reports on each of the nearly 60 horses first.
Attorney Michael Tague of Champaign, Ill., who is representing
Severe weather, including a tornado, damaged about 50 homes in central Florida, before the system became a tropical depression Friday and had parts of the Gulf Coast under tropical storm warnings.
The tornado touched down late Thursday and
Authorities have filed 16 misdemeanor counts of animal cruelty against a Corvallis, Mont., man, after reporting they found dozens of neglected horses, dogs, pigs, and other animals on his property last month. The case met criteria for felon North Carolina’s first tropical storm of the year did virtually nothing to ease drought in the few coastal counties it touched, so the state’s hopes Monday turned to a forecast o A Montrose, Iowa, man who authorities say starved and abused his eight horses and one foal was fined $334 after he pleaded guilty to one count of animal cruelty. Michael Jacob Cain, 30, pleaded guilty Sept. 6 in Lee County district court. Stay on top of the most recent Horse Health news with FREE weekly newsletters from TheHorse.comWeekly PollPartners in Equine Health
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