AVMA News

MARCH 1, 2024

The AVMA and American Association of Equine Practitioners (AAEP) have jointly created the Effective Equine Care Guide, a free resource that veterinary teams in equine practice can use to develop healthy communication and positive partnerships between staff members and horse owners.

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AVMA News

MARCH 6, 2025

A passion for horses led to a career in equine medicine for Dr. Sara Langsam, a member of the American Association of Equine Practitioners board of directors and the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authoritys Horsemen's Advisory Group.

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AVMA News

MARCH 27, 2023

Ferrin Peterson has always wanted to ride the winning horse at the Kentucky Derby, and she has never been closer than now to achieving her dream. She’s had a total of 1,135 starts, including 102 first-place finishes.

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AVMA News

AUGUST 7, 2023

The latest list of veterinary clinical studies in the AVMA Animal Health Studies Database (AAHSD) are available, including a study on the treatment of large skin melanoma or squamous cell carcinoma tumors in horses using high-frequency irreversible electroporation (H-FIRE).

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AVMA News

MARCH 28, 2023

The Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority’s (HISA) Anti-Doping and Medication Control (ADMC) officially launched March 27. Under the ADMC Program, racing will have centralized testing driven by an investigative unit and will institute harmonization among laboratories.

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Animal Person

APRIL 20, 2009

In " Hungary's Spirits Are Back Up, on a Horse ," the New York Times' Nicholas Kulish reports that a thoroughbred known as Overdose, who is owned by Hungarian Zoltan Mikoczy, has become "the Hungarian Seabiscuit. million for the horse, but has refused to sell. “I You do not sell dreams.” And when he can make a politician look good.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

Big Horse Creek is a popular camping spot for fisherman with a boat ramp that is accessible to two-wheel drive vehicles. It is also a very popular park for accessing the Victoria River to catch a Barramundi! There are plenty of opportunities for observing crocodiles, a huge variety of birds, rock art, hiking trails and spectacular scenery.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 15, 2010

50 surviving horses were rescued. The Humane Society of the United States, SPCA of East Texas and Humane Society of North Texas worked with the Smith County District Attorney's Office to rescue 50 horses from a Lindale property. Rescuers also found several dead horses and numerous equine skeletons on site.

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Critter News

JANUARY 18, 2011

Tyson Larson introduced LB 305 on Wednesday, which would create a state meat inspection program, which would in turn allow horse meat to be transported across state lines. If they don't want us to process horses, what are we supposed to do?". He also introduced LB 306, otherwise known as the Livestock Animal Welfare Act.

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Critter News

APRIL 1, 2010

Missouri is going to vote on allowing horse slaughterhouses back into the State. Some of the legislators started harassing the horse activist. Some legislators programmed their e-mail systems to forward any message containing the word "horse" to Shoss. Tags: Stupid legislation horse slaughter Missouri.

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Critter News

MARCH 9, 2009

I've received so many donation requests from "People Helping Horses" that I finally decided to send a donation. I've never been around horses much, but a friend of mine who has 3 horses and 2 burros (!) told me that horse groups have been hit particularly hard with the economy. Definitely one I want to follow.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

It's that if you don't have the funds, and you don't have the feed, and don't have the place to keep them, and they are old, and they are no longer going to work for what you need them for, it's a place for them to go," said Billings Livestock and Horse Sale's Jenn Parker. Maybe then can call it Horse Haven. Tags: horse.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

Boone Pickens said {November 18} that she would create a refuge for wild horses, after the federal agency that manages them said it might have to kill some to control the herds and protect the Western range. About 33,000 wild horses and burros roam the open range in 10 Western states. The wife of the Texas oil tycoon T.

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Critter News

APRIL 21, 2009

Authorities are looking in the deaths of 21 polo horses from Argentina. Tags: horses. So far they have ruled out disease and are even looking into the possibility that they were deliberately killed.

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Animal Person

APRIL 4, 2009

Stephanie wrote about horses dying across the pond yesterday. They were among more than 20 horses from Paragallo’s Center Brook Farm in Climax, N.Y., In fact, Paragallo said, he had intended to ship another batch of horses to the man. And what do they think happens to the horses who aren't ever good enough to compete?

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Critter News

APRIL 5, 2009

Looks like Montana's state government is heading towards the approval of horse slaughterhouses, but there are hurdles at the federal level. Tags: meat montana horses USDA Slaughterhouse us. The only real markets for horsemeat are overseas and product must be inspected by the USDA before it can be shipped outside the US.

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Critter News

MARCH 7, 2012

The story, by author and animal rights activist Ernest Dempsey calls Stanwood, Washington “Death Row for horses” because of the location not far away of a “major buying station, collection point and feedlot for U.S. horses destined to die and be butchered in one of Canada’s equine slaughterhouses for human consumption abroad.”

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Critter News

DECEMBER 12, 2011

An internal review by the US Bureau of Land Management admits that the roundup of wild horses has involved some mistreatment, but they refuse to admit the treatment was inhumane. The Bureau of Land Management's internal review of a wild horse roundup in Nevada in Sept., Excerpted from USA Today.

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Animal Person

APRIL 7, 2009

" Surge in Abandoned Horses Renews Debate Over Slaughterhouses " in today's New York Times begs a lot of questions that I wonder how you would answer. Let's deconstruct: The facts of the case: "Emaciated horses eating bark off trees. Abandoned horses tied to telephone poles. Horses subsisting on feces, walking among carcasses.

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Critter News

JULY 25, 2012

The debate between cowboy tradition and animal rights at the Calgary Stampede was reignited late Thursday when three horses were killed and a fourth seriously injured during a chuckwagon race at the huge annual rodeo and exhibition of Western Canadian culture. From Reuters.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

The Animal Welfare Institute thinks these new rules could be a blow to the horse slaughter industry, but only if actually implemented. Tags: canada meat horse slaughter Slaughterhouse.

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Critter News

MAY 3, 2009

Montana has passed a law making it difficult to challenge the building of a horse slaughtering facility in that state. Tags: horse slaughter. The last such facility in the US closed in 2007. This bill specifically makes for groups that might oppose it to use the court system to do so. From the bill, which you can read here : Section 2.

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Animal Person

APRIL 5, 2009

From Elizabeth Forel, of the Coalition to Ban Horse-Drawn Carriages. Tell the governor's office that (live) horses are a symbol of the American West and Montana should not want to be known as the horse slaughter capitol of the country. The danger is that the amendments will be made and the bill will be signed into law.

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Critter News

JUNE 9, 2011

Welfare officers from international animal welfare charity The Donkey Sanctuary have reported an improvement in the welfare of donkeys and other equines at this year’s Appleby Horse Fair in Cumbria, which finished earlier this week.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 14, 2009

Nick Rahall and Raul Grijalva have introduced a bill that would protect healthy wild horses from being killed by the BLM. In a written statement, Rahall says the intent is to help spur alternatives to killing excess wild horses that are in holding facilities. Rahal said in his introduction of the bill: * Mr. RAHALL.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Tags: sea horses oceans marine animals 2010 oil spill environment Gulf of Mexico.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 26, 2012

A Farrier is a professional with a very unique set of skills, they are able to care for and treat ailments found in hoofed animals including horses, ponies and some other animals. This act was created to ensure proper care is provided to horses by eliminating unskilled people from attempting to shoe them.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2011

Naturalists examining old nests have identified raccoon, opossum, dog, fox squirrel, red squirrel, rabbit, horse, cow, cat, mouse, woodchuck, and even human hair in titmouse nests.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2011

The Loch of Strathbeg reserve in Aberdeenshire Scotland has begun to use eight rare ‘Konick’ horses to manage and improve it’s wetland habitats for birds. Now, thanks to the grazing habits of these horses, the machines can be ditched and an au naturel approach to habitat management adopted.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

But that may be an exercise in closing the barn door after the horse is out, if the Associate Press story linked to above is any indication: ”… the wind energy industry has pushed for, and the White House is currently evaluating, giving companies permission to kill a set number of eagles for 30 years. Apparently, the U.S.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

There was a rapid clacking sound coming from the brush in several spots, and when I managed to find one of the clackers, it turned out to be a large and quite colorful Horse Lubber Grasshopper, Taeniopoda eques. Sometimes it is a flower (of which there were oodles), a reptile (lizards, and a small snake), or an insect.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

Before I delve into details about the poem I should probably share it with you so we have a text in common: Purple Martins If we were such and so, the same as these, maybe we too would be slingers and sliders, tumbling half over in the water mirrors, tumbling half over at the horse heads of the sun, tumbling our purple numbers.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2015

I’ve rescued field mice to horses, and everything in between. Dear Outdoor Cat Owners/Feral Cat Supporters, Does the photo above sicken you? It sickens me. I have been rescuing animals, both wild and domestic, since I was a child. I’m allergic to cats, but in my lifetime I’ve rescued five of them.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2014

There are many stories at Dunrovin – rescued horses, challenging dogs, miniature donkeys with flamboyant personalities – but two of the stars are a pair of Osprey s dubbed Ozzie and Harriet. Recently I started working with Dunrovin Ranch, a local guest ranch, on their web project Days at Dunrovin.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 23, 2015

I am driving down the dirt track in the Carska Bara Ramsar site (Serbia) and a cloud of dust closely follows me, like a rider on a pale horse. Just for fun, it seems – joie de vivre? Alongside the road are European Stonechats , White Storks and the flute-like song of the Eurasian Golden Oriole comes from some thickets.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2013

So does another located at Dunrovin Ranch (in the background of which you can occasionally see poet Mackenzie Cole and others of my MFA buddies working on horse training.) The Hellgate Canyon nesting platform has a nestcam trained on it. Most notable of all, though, is the nest at the baseball field.

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Bald Eagle Idaho Primates Eagles 243

10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2014

The Ash-throated Flycatchers ( Myiarchus cinerascens ) pictured below start their nest base with dry cow or horse dung. The cup is made up of dry grasses, rootlets, and weed stems, then lined with finer grasses, hair and fur. The nestling has darker down and whiter gape flanges than the nuthatch nestlings.

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