What You’ve Come to Believe About the Wild Horse Plight in America is WRONG

This is a copy of a special emailing I was sent from ‘Horse Nation‘:

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Many people believe that horse slaughter is a necessary evil are animal abuse and neglect rates will skyrocket.

But what is the truth about horse slaughter and are you getting it?

I just found this news article: The relationship between horse slaughter and reported cases of abuse and neglect that takes a magnified look and goes into studied detailed about this controversial issue of equine slaughter and if it is for the best or not. This news report doesn’t just state what one people thinks is going on or what they think will happen in the future. It gets scientific with graphics, records, numbers, and history.

Are we in for a horror story with a quickly climbing over population of unwanted horses? Will sick and starving horses Read the rest of this entry

Here is the latest news on the mares and foals that need homes

Marian Mastin of Adopt A Foal just sent me the following report…
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We have some volunteers making a run to Lubbock this weekend to pick up these babies…They’ll be traveling back this way at night/early morning hours due to the heat during the daytime…it will be a long trip home since they will be stopping every couple of hours for the babies to get their bearings and balance back… and of course, to nurse.

1. The Bay Mare and paint foal have been spoken for, but it isn’t a done deal yet…we have one person in line waiting to see how that one hashes out…if they do become available, we will not be able to pick them up this weekend, but would most likely get them in the next couple of weeks.
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Too many people over breeding horses. Are you one of them?

Most horse people do not intensionally breed for the horse meat market. BUT everyone in the horse breeding business or hobby needs to realize that any of the horses they sell or give away can end up going to slaughter one day. If not in America, where they are trying to put a stop horse slaughter, then across the border in Mexico. We all have to awake up to the fact that there is an oversupply of horses for the quality-home-horse-riding market. This oversupply ends up in the human food meat market.

I am not against horse breeding, but if you care about the horses you breed then breeding has to be done responsibly — the best horses to the best horses in limited amounts that the riding market can handle. And you should include Read the rest of this entry

Unwanted Horses are a huge problem in the US

I just found a press release yesterday about a new horse web site and I just had to post the news here because I believe unwanted horses affects everyone in the horse industry or anyone that loves horses.

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Two horses headed for death saved and made into greeting cards.

I just thought that I would share with you a little background information on a couple of the horses who’s photos appear in the Horse Art eCards. Both of these horses had a rough start in life and were about to be auctioned for horse meat, but kind and loving people rescued them and they are now living the good life.

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