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ACTION ALERT: Against Horse Fighting!
Animals  (tags: phillipines, horse fighting, cruelty, suffering, betting gambling )

Simone
- 2 days ago - networkforanimals.org
Network for Animals campaigns against the cruel practice of horse fighting, a blood sport prevalent on the island of Mindanao in the southern Philippines. Billed as a cultural tradition specific to indigenous communities, horse fighting, despite being
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ACTION ALERT: Stop Horse Fighting in Phillipines!
Animals  (tags: horse fighting, horrendous suffering, gambling, humans, cruelty, horses killed, injured, phillipines )

Simone
- 15 days ago - networkforanimals.org
Horse Fighting, an illegal spectator blood sport where stallions are incited to fight one another, is widely practiced on the island of Mindanao in the southern Philippines. Fuelled by cash prizes for the owners of the winning horses and extensive
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ACTION ALERT: Stop Barbaric Horse Fighting!!- Pls Sign PETITION
Animals  (tags: horrendous cruelty, horse fighting, suffering, death, injuries, animal activists, protection, laws )

Simone
- 105 days ago - networkforanimals.org
Republic Act 8485, also known as the Animal Welfare Act, outlawed all horse fighting in 1998. However, with penalties ranging from a minimum of 1000 pesos (approx. £10) to a maximum of 5000 pesos (approx. £50), horse fighting organizers pay little heed
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HORSE FIGHTING - The Bloodsport of the Philippines. Please Sign the Petition Only 180 Signatures Needed to Reach the 10,000 Goal
Animals  (tags: animalcruelty, animalwelfare, abuse, cruelty, horses, horse fighting )

Kath
- 285 days ago - gopetition.com
The barbaric bloodsport of HORSE FIGHTING in the Philippines must end and you can help by signing the petition, only through the threat of losing the tourist dollar will the Filipino Government take notice. Please have your voice heard.
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PLZ SIGN; STOP HORSE FIGHTING- - 'Ban Horse Fighting in the Phippines'
Animals  (tags: wild horses, stallions, horse fighting, horses abused, harmed, tortured, animal cruelty, animal advocates, horse welfare )

Simone
- 328 days ago - weeklytimesnow.com.au
WHILE dog and cock fighting is well known - and banned - in Australia it seems that horse fighting between two stallions is a sport in the Philippines. Horrific photos of two horses bleeding in battle are posted on the website of those looking to
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Let's Put An End to Horse Fighting- PETITION
Animals  (tags: horse fighting, suffering, brutal cruelty, horses slaughtered, phillipine, horse advocates )

Simone
- 407 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
Several groups are actively campaigning to stop the barbaric practice of horse fighting. In this cruel practice, that some actually call sport, horses are corralled and forced to fight each other. The horses suffer severe injuries and do not receive any
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Horses Maimed in Brutal Horse Fight Club // VIDEO
Animals  (tags: horses, horse fighting, AnimalCruelty, AnimalWelfare, animals, ethics, humans, sadness, slaughter, society, suffering, animalrights )

Julie
- 412 days ago - current.com
1000'S of horses in the Philippines are being crippled & maimed in illegal battles as part of a 3 day festival on Mindanao Island. Gambling on these fights has become lucrative business for crime bosses & corrupt police officers.
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Horses Maimed In Illegal Fighting -Phillipines (SIGN PETITION)
Animals  (tags: AnimalCruelty, horse fighting )

Cristina
- 414 days ago - news.sky.com
Illegal horse fighting in the Philippines cripples and maims thousands of horses every year. Peter Sharp, Sky's Asia Correspondent, travelled to the island of Mindanao where he witnessed the brutal and bloody contests.
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Horse Fighting Horror Exposed - VIDEO
Animals  (tags: horse fighting, barbaric cruelty, horse suffering, horses killed, investigation, phillipines )

Simone
- 416 days ago - news.ninemsn.com.au
Shocking new video from the Philippines has revealed the cruelty of horse-fighting -- an ancient practice that was officially banned a decade ago but continues in the country's poverty-stricken rural regions. Nine News affiliate BSkyB investigated the
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Ban Horse Fighting In The Philippines - PETITION
Animals  (tags: animalcruelty, horse fighting, suffering, ban, philippines, animal advocates )

Simone
- 427 days ago - gopetition.com
On Sundays or fiesta days in the Philippines the so called "sport" of Horse Fighting is illiegally conducted. Two stallions are pitted against each other and results in horrific injuries and deaths and often last for hours. Some stallions are hit so
143 comments
Join the Campaign Against Horse Fighting
Animals  (tags: horse fighting, Philippines, animals, AnimalWelfare, protection, environment, suffering, AnimalCruelty )

Cher
- 635 days ago - wspa-international.org
WSPA Asia is supporting Network for Animals' campaign against horse fighting by writing to the Philippine Bureau of Animal Welfare. Our letter protests the failure to enforce laws preventing these horrifically cruel events.
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Join the Campaign Against Horse Fighting
Animals  (tags: horse fighting, campaign, against horse cruelty, suffering )

Simone
- 642 days ago - wspa.org.uk
WSPA Asia is supporting Network for Animals' campaign against horse fighting by writing to the Philippine Bureau of Animal Welfare. Our letter protests the failure to enforce laws preventing these horrifically cruel events. The horses used in the
2 comments
Horse Fights Outrage Animal Rights Groups
Animals  (tags: horse fighting, horses killed, mistreated, abused, horse welfare, animal right groups, outrage )

Simone
- 740 days ago - earthtimes.org
Images of organized horse fights in China have sparked an international outcry. Animal rights groups described the photographs of the Guizhou event as "barbaric" and "inhumane," The Telegraph reported Friday. Horse fighting has been a Chinese
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Horror as Chinese Horses Are Forced to Fight to the Death
Animals  (tags: horse fighting, cruelty, death, china )

Trudi
- 745 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
Chinese spectators smile sadistically at the inhumane spectacle of two beautiful horses savagely attacking one another. With ears back, eyes rolling and nostrils flared in fury.......
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