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Wild Horse Sales for Slaughter Breaks Law: California AG
California's top lawyer urges U.S. Forestry officials to rethink a decision that could put some wild horses at risk of going to horse slaughter. The state's law prohibits the possession or sale of horses with the intent of...
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Horse Helps Inmate’s Hunger for Change
A Mustang helps an inmate change his life by breaking the criminal cycle at the Wild Horse Program at Rio Cosumnes Correctional Center....
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House Committee Approves Killing Wild Horses
The House Appropriations Committee voted to remove language banning the killing of healthy wild horses by 'humane euthanization'....
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BLM Budget Proposal Seeks to Euthanize Wild Horses
If approved, it would allow the BLM to use "humane euthanasia and [the] unrestricted sale of certain excess animals". Congress barred the BLM in 2010 from euthanizing healthy animals....
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550+ Seized Horses Head to Faith Auction, May Face Slaughter
South Dakota authorities announced the new auction location for horses seized from purported mustang sanctuary operator Karen Sussman. It comes after Philip Livestock Auction received threats making a change of venue to Fait...
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BLM Aborts Plan to Surgically Sterilize Wild Horses
No Birth control The U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) aborts plans to surgically sterilize a herd of wild mares in Oregon. The government agency suggested three methods to see if they were safe and effective for populat...
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$100K Bounty after Wild Horses Killed at Madeleine Pickens’ Sanctuary
$100K Reward Madeleine Pickens needs your help finding those responsible for the deaths of at least 12 wild mustangs. She is offering a $100,000 reward for information leading to the capture and conviction of those respons...
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Forest Service Withdraws Plans to Remove Salt River Wild Horses
The Salt River Wild Horses will continue to roam free. According to the Salt River Wild Horse Management Group, the U.S. Forest withdrew its plans to roundup freely roaming equines in the Tonto National Forest along the Salt...
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1700+ Wild Horses Sent to Slaughter: Report
More than 1700 wild mustangs were slaughtered in Mexico over a four-year period after being purchased from the Bureau of Land Management by a Colorado rancher, a federal report confirms....
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BLM Gathering 200 Cold Creek Horses
The Bureau of Land Management is gathering a group of 200 wild horses in the Cold Creek area of southern Nevada. The agency says due to the drought the horses don't have enough food and need intervention....
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Salt River Wild Horses get Reprieve from Round-Up
"The majority of these horses will be purchased for slaughter and sold for their meat," the group said in its lawsuit....
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BLM Offers Reward for Info Regarding Mustang’s Shooting Death
Investigators from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) are seeking information regarding the shooting death of a wild horse in Utah. A $5,000 bounty is up for grabs for a lead that helps capture the horse's killer....
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USEF Halts Federation-Generated Protest Measurements in 2015
The United States Equestrian Federation has announced a moratorium on Federation-generated protest measurements for the 2015 competition year....
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Heritage Farm Motion to Dismiss Denied in Alleged Pony Sale Cover-Up
Barbara Tichner-Dildabanian can file a separate lawsuit against the sellers, Bibby Farmer, Lane Change Farm, Larry Glefke and Kelley Farmer in Florida, for their failure to disclose, since the sales transaction took place in...
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Buyer of Wild Horses Under Investigation by State, Feds
Colorado officials are considering whether to prosecute Tom Davis, who has bought more than 1,700 wild horses from the federal government since 2008, for violating laws meant to deter livestock theft....
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Elizabeth Mandarino Suspended by USEF
Horse trainer Elizabeth Mandarino has been temporarily suspended by the United States Equestrian Federation after the death of her pony, Humble, at the Devon Horse Show....
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PZP Approved for Birth Control in Wild Horses
The first contraceptive vaccine for horses in the United States has been registered. After two decades of research, the registration of porcine zona pellucida (PZP) will become more readily accessible as a management tool to...
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