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A terrified horse awaiting its turn to be murdered.89

The Ugly Truth About Unwanted Horses

Unwanted horses are becoming an epidemic in the U.S. Even people who honestly love their horses are sometimes not able to keep them. Equines are expensive to feed, house, and care for. And since they’re...

30 comments    horses horse slaughter
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Granny's Homemade Ways: School Trips, Horses in Need and Stories for Boys and Girls-Feb 18, 2010

Today was my quarterly visit to our local elementary school for a "lunch and learn" with the 5th graade class and their teacher, Ms. Anne. I do three "lunch and learns" with the class. A "lunch and learn"...

1 comment    reading horses fund raising
Photo #1 - This is "Sugar Candy", a pony with extremely overgrown hooves and founder.  Her hooves were actually much worse than what they look like in this photo.  About 6 inches more of the hooves were buried in soft dirt that you can't see here. 70

The Right Way to Take Care of a Rescue Horse

What is the right way to take care of a rescue horse? What health and behavioral problems should you expect? How should they be fed and should they be quarantined, and why?

7 comments    founder horse rescue strangles
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Horse Stories

Horse Stories I always wanted to live on a ranch. Horses, chickens, pigs, ducks....any loving being who could not talk in words, I wanted to include in my menagerie. And, so it was that I bought my first...

2 comments    heart horses horse
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"Help Save the Wild Horses"

  The sounds of their thundering hooves running across the plains projects a “Freedom of Spirit” that deep down all of us wish we could experience. Wild horses give us the sense of the “Old West”...

4 comments    horses livestock endangered
'Bullwinkle' - he was a son of the great 'Seattle Slew.'56

Saving Horses from Slaughter

The Manes and Tails Organization has been rescuing, rehabilitating, retraining and re-homing horses since 1995. All of our rescues were bound for slaughter. Each horse has tremendous bloodlines in their...

0 comments    usda horse rescue
Me with my adopted Standardbred mare, Miss B...56

If You Always Wanted a Horse, Today’s Prices Are Right

There are few little girls who didn't grow up wanting their own version of Trigger or The Black Stallion. Some would-be cowboys had the same fantasy. If you are one of those people (and many Baby Boomers fall...

0 comments    recreation pet horse
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Abused and Neglected Horses - What Can We Do?

From my earliest memories, I've always loved horses. I've had horses (or access to them) most of my life and it's hard for me to imagine life without them. My "joy level" would be greatly affected...

17 comments    friends animals abuse
Retired horse with a new "lease on life" as a therapy animal.54

How Working Animals Should be Retired

When we, as human beings, put our all in to our careers, when retirement age comes around, we look forward to rest, relaxation and the enjoyment that our life of labor has provided...the same should be true...

0 comments    pets dogs animals
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Dessert Pizza Saves Horses

Well, I know this must seem like an unusual pairing; Desert Pizza and Horse Rescue seem two worlds apart but they are now being brought together by my daughter and I. Emily is my 11 year old daughter who built...

0 comments    health recipe pizza
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