Equine
House Passes Wild Horse and Burro Protections
Today, the House voted handily in favor of a bill, H.R. 1018 introduced by Natural Resources Committee Chairman Nick Rahall (D-W.Va.), to provide sweeping new protections for wild horses and burros inhabiting public lands in the West.
Horse With No Name No More
If you can, please make a special donation to help us rehabilitate these formerly neglected horses. As a way of recognizing your financial support, we’re even offering a unique opportunity for you to name the horses.
Retire Slaughter of Racehorses
Today in his Sports section column, New York Times columnist William C. Rhoden focused his readers on the biggest humane issue in the horse racing world: horse slaughter.
Horse Racing’s War on Drugs
Continuing its tough and much-needed critical examination of thoroughbred racing, The New York Times published a probing examination of the industry’s ever-festering and seemingly intractable drug problem.
Horse Power
In recent weeks, in different parts of the country, the plight of horses—from the deaths of 21 polo ponies in Florida to this week’s rescue of 200 mustangs found starving on a Nebraska ranch—has captured the headlines. Wherever horses need help, they’ll have a powerful ally in The HSUS and its equine programs.
Give Me a Home Where the Wild Horses Roam
My friend Madeleine Pickens has been in the news recently with her passionate appeal to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to take up her plan to create a sanctuary for thousands of wild horses and burros on public rangelands. Right now, the Bureau of Land Management . . .
An Afternoon with Horses
Today, I am in Pittsburgh at the Allegheny HYP Club to give a lecture on animal issues. I was invited by an old Yale college classmate, Matt Meade, who brought me to town. One of my other hosts is Karen Poirier, the president of the . . .
Horse Slaughtergate
Six-time Genesis Awards-winner Brad Woodard, an investigative reporter for the CBS television affiliate in Houston, is on top of the horse slaughter industry again. Last week, he aired an investigative story that reminded us of the continuing problems of slaughter, exposing again the propaganda of . . .
Stable End for Racehorses
Since the death of the filly Eight Belles in this year’s Kentucky Derby, there’s been a brass-band clamor for reform in the horse racing industry. One of the priority concerns is humane care for the racehorses no longer valued at the track. A recently broadcast . . .
Horse Sense
Stopping horse slaughter for human consumption has been a long-standing priority for the organization. In the past year, we’ve seen the closure of the last three domestic horse slaughter plants, and we are pushing Congress to pass legislation to ban the export of live horses . . .
A Hand for Horses
In January I responded to a query from a reader who asked, when rehoming horses, what are the available humane alternatives to auctions and slaughter. I said that there is a growing nationwide horse rescue community that The HSUS is working to support and foster, . . .
You Asked: Homes for Horses
Today I’d like to respond to a query that came in after last week’s blog about the National Call-In Day for Horses. Q. If people can’t afford to take care of their horses, besides slaughter and auction, what other avenues do they have? Just a . . .
