Thursday, March 11, 2010
CATSKILL, N.Y. (AP) -- Closing statements have started in the non-jury trial of a prominent New York thoroughbred breeder and trainer charged with mistreating dozens of the 177 malnourished horses seized from his Hudson Valley farm. Prosecutors and Ernie Paragallo's lawyer are making thei ...
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A joint memorial to Congress to oppose federal legislation that interferes with a state's ability to direct the transport and processing of horses for human consumption is afloat in the Idaho Legislature. The bill also urges Congress to discontinue language in the yearly appropriation bil ...
Saturday, February 27, 2010 12:09 PM
BRIDGEPORT, Neb. (AP) -- A former western Nebraska ranch owner has been sentenced to at least 20 months, but not more than five years in prison, after being found guilty of 145 counts of animal cruelty. At Tuesday's sentencing, Jason Meduna also was barred from owning or associating with liv ...
Thursday, February 25, 2010 5:19 PM
A joint memorial to Congress to oppose federal legislation that interferes with a state's ability to direct the transport and processing of horses for human consumption is afloat in the Idaho Legislature. The bill also urges Congress to discontinue language in the yearly appropriation bills th ...
Sunday, February 21, 2010 4:09 PM
reports. After the horses were seized, Dunham was charged with three counts of animal cruelty, but she was found not guilty of the crimes in Idaho's 1st District Court last February. Dunham said she bought the horses in that condition from a neighbor who neglected them. A month later, she ...
Friday, February 19, 2010 8:09 AM
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) -- A Kentucky House committee has approved a bill aimed at creating a state board to oversee health and safety issues for the many breeds of horses in Kentucky. The bill's supporters said Wednesday that Kentucky is known as the world's horse capital, yet there are sometim ...
Friday, February 19, 2010 7:49 AM
RENO, Nev. (AP) -- A national law firm says it plans to sue to stop the government's planned roundup of nearly 500 wild horses from the range in eastern Nevada. The Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney firm has notified the U.S. Justice Department of its intent to sue over the Eagle Herd ...
Sunday, February 07, 2010 9:48 AM
DILLON, Mont. (AP) -- The Bureau of Land Management says a plan to move 805 wild horses to a private ranch in southwest Montana has been put on hold. The agency said Wednesday it has filed a motion with the Interior Board of Land Appeals to voluntarily stay a Dec. 28 decision to oper ...
Saturday, February 06, 2010 9:09 AM
OAK HARBOR, Ohio (AP) -- The lawyer for an Ohio woman accused of having dozens of malnourished horses on her farm says his client never got the help she needed from a local humane society. Robin Vess of Oak Harbor faces 42 counts of cruelty to animals. Attorney Mark Davis said Wednesday that ...
Friday, February 05, 2010 3:08 PM
RENO, Nev. (AP) -- State agriculture officials say they plan to round up some of the 25 or so wild horses that have been roaming a south Reno neighborhood. Nevada Department of Agriculture spokesman Ed Foster says the plan is to trap seven or eight horses identified as "habitual offende ...
Friday, February 05, 2010 1:48 PM
ROSEBUD, Mo. (AP) -- Fourteen horses are now in the custody of the Humane Society of Missouri after the animals were taken from a property near Rosebud in eastern Missouri. The Humane Society says the animals rescued Tuesday were severely underweight and had no access to fresh water. Nine de ...
Friday, January 29, 2010 8:08 AM
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) -- Brand inspector Mike Walck won't soon forget one of the worst cases of animal cruelty he has seen. In mid-November, between Rulison and Parachute, someone shot a horse in the head, leaving the gray gelding in his late teens or early 20s for dead. But the hor ...
Monday, January 25, 2010 8:09 AM
MILL CITY, Ore. (AP) -- Linn County sheriff's officers say as many as 30 horses and miniature horses have been removed from a Mill City-area farm and placed in foster care. Deputies and animal welfare workers responded to the farm east of Salem on Thursday. Sheriff Tim Mueller t ...
Sunday, January 24, 2010 12:49 PM
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) -- A Greene County lawmaker wants to make the slaughtering of horses for human consumption legal in Missouri. But state Rep. Jim Viebrock has a lot of hurdles to clear. Viebrock, R-Republic, is sponsoring state legislation aimed at bypassing a federal ...
Sunday, January 17, 2010 9:09 AM
that investigators have recovered evidence, which he declined to disclose. He said so far there are no arrests. Gina Thorp says her family's white 5-year-old horse was euthanized Tuesday. Thorp says Baby was shot above her tail and in each shoulder. The Thorps told investigators that some ...
Saturday, January 16, 2010 10:49 AM
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) -- Rachel's Star, a 9-year-old daughter of Seeking the Gold in foal to Elusive Quality, has brought $220,000, the highest price paid during the third session of Keeneland's January Horses of All Ages Sale. Thoroughbred Advisory Group bought Rachel's Star from Tayl ...
Saturday, January 16, 2010 9:09 AM
HIALEAH GARDENS, Fla. (AP) -- State, federal and Miami-Dade County officials have swept into a rural area looking for code violations and any connection to a recent string of grisly horse slaughters. Miriam Rossi, spokeswoman for Miami-Dade County's Building and Neighborhood Compliance Depar ...
Thursday, January 14, 2010 11:49 AM
BRIDGEPORT, Neb. (AP) -- The trial of a former western Nebraska ranch owner charged with 149 counts of felony animal cruelty is set to begin. Jury selection in the case of 42-year-old Jason Meduna is set for Monday. Authorities say they found many of the 211 horses and 11 ...
Wednesday, January 13, 2010 7:39 AM
RENO, Nev. (AP) -- Sheryl Crow has spoken out against the war in Iraq and in support of embryonic stem-cell research and efforts to combat global warming. Now, she's trying to ride to the rescue of thousands of wild horses that roam the West. After campaigning for President Ba ...
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 12:48 PM
RENO, Nev. (AP) -- Officials in Reno are beginning to make plans to trap and treat animal waste from the annual Reno Rodeo in June. The Truckee Meadows Water Authority is putting up $75,000 from its Truckee River Fund, while the Reno-Sparks Convention & Visitors Authority is chipping in ...
Wednesday, January 06, 2010 4:38 PM
FAYETTEVILLE, Ga. (AP) -- Authorities are investigating who critically injured a horse on a Fayette County farm by shooting arrows into the animal. Fayette County sheriff's investigator Brent Rowan says a neighbor driving along the road next to the farm Sunday noticed three arrows sticking o ...
Wednesday, January 06, 2010 4:38 PM
Freeze-branding destroys the pigment-producing follicles in the hair shaft so that the hair grows out white. It is legible, permanent, hard to alter and can be seen from a distance all year long, even on a winter coat. Horse hair grows as a clear shaft from a growth follicle. Pigment is added t ...
Thursday, March 11, 2010 6:30 AM
Karen Wilcox of Walla Walla, Wash., started branding her registered Morgans eight years ago. "We just thought it would be fun, and we like the brands. When you're raising horses to get them out there, it's good to have the brand," Wilcox said. Then she learned about the theft of a 4- ...
Thursday, March 11, 2010 6:30 AM
The tradition of bartering in the equine world seems to have resurfaced during this recession. Almost everyone I know has a tack room full of impulse buys, never used or slightly used items. In times of plenty, tack rooms were stuffed with "must have" stuff that did nothing more than coll ...
Thursday, March 11, 2010 6:30 AM
WINNEMUCCA, Nev. (AP) -- The Bureau of Land Management captured 74 mustangs in northern Nevada on the first day of a two-month roundup expected to relocate about 2,500 wild horses to other lands. BLM spokeswoman JoLynn Worley said Tuesday that there were no reported problems with the horses on ...
Thursday, December 31, 2009 2:08 PM
BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) -- The Bureau of Land Management says a plan to move hundreds of wild horses to a private ranch in southwest Montana is moving forward. The agency can place up to 805 wild horses on the 16,367-acre property in Madison County by February, according to a decision released Mond ...
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