From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2012: When it comes to hauling horses, bassackward is right VANCOUVER–More than two million U.S. and Canadian horse-keepers haul more than nine million horses an average of more than a dozen times each per year, one or two in a trailer. Farriers and veterinarians usually drive to the horses’ barns, [...]
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2012: Progress in equine contraception BILLINGS–The American SPCA on April 16, 2012 granted $100,000 to the Science & Conservation Center in Billings, Montana, maker of the contraceptive vaccine ZonaStat-H. The grant is separate from an ongoing ASPCA subsidy of $50,000 per year for three years to help advance the center’s [...]
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2012: SANTA ANITA, CHELTENHAM–Home Box Office cancelled the made-for-TV Dustin Hoffman/Nick Nolte drama series Luck on March 14, 2012 after three on-set horse fatalities in three years of videotaping at the Santa Anita race track in Arcadia, California. At Cheltenham, Glou-cestershire, United Kingdom, however, the annual four-day Festival jumps [...]
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2012: Falling for Eli: How I lost heart, then gained hope through the love of a singular horse by Nancy Shulins DaCapo Lifelong Books (11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 02142), 2012. 272 pages, paperback. $15.99. Former Associated Press correspondent Nancy Shulins shares an uplifting memoir in Falling for Eli: How [...]
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2012: Lawsuits & prosecutions rattle Northeast horse rescuers SARATOGA SPRINGS, RIVERHEAD, HARRISBURG, BINGHAMTON–Four New York and Pennsylvania horse rescue operations, ranging from one believed to be the largest in the U.S. to some of the smallest, entered the 2012 spring mud season mired in controversy, with the possibility of more muck [...]
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2012: PETA view more nuanced than Christian Science Monitor report that it favors horse slaughter HABITAT FOR HORSES WASHINGTON D.C.–Perhaps PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk played the horse slaughter issue for publicity, and perhaps she was just misrepresented. Either way, though, the PETA position on the November 18, 2011 USDA budget bill [...]