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Please Sign: Tell USDA to End Torture of Tennessee Walking Horses: Enforce the Horse Protection Act
Animals  (tags: abuse, AnimalCruelty, AnimalWelfare, horses, Tennessee Walking, illegal trainers, soring, horse shows, USDA, Horse Proteciton Act, crime, law, protection, suffering )

S
- 8 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
Recently released film from a Humane Society investigation shows TW Horses are being badly abused. Despite the banning of "soring," applying caustic chemicals to horse legs to cause pain and accentuated gait, the torture has gone on, improperly checked.
33 comments
Please Don't Let the BLM Use Drought as a Blanket Excuse to Remove Wild Horses From the Range in Nevada ACTION
Animals  (tags: protection, horses, slaughter, animal cruelty, dirty politics )

Nancy
- 16 days ago - org2.democracyinaction.org
The agency is currently accepting public comments on an Environmental Assessment (EA) for the plan. The EA is overly broad and may be used by the BLM to justify the blanket removal of wild horses and burros from these important herds.
36 comments
Take URGENT Action Against the BLM Summer Helicopter Stampede in Nevada!
Animals  (tags: horses, wild horses, stampede, Nevade, desert, AnimalWelfare, AnimalCruelty, environment, cruelty, habitat, protection, wildlife )

Lindsey
- 30 days ago - org2.democracyinaction.org
COMMENTS ARE DUE BY 4:30 p.m. PST on May 1, 2012! - Take action NOW! The Interior Department Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is seeking public comments on a Preliminary Environmental Assessment (PEA) for the roundup and removal of 630 wild horses.
34 comments
Eat Horse
Animals  (tags: horses, slaughter, slaughter houses, US, Obama, AnimalWelfare, AnimalCruelty, suffering, sadness, slaughter, crime )

BarbCat
- 42 days ago - eathorse.com
Horses could soon be butchered in the U.S. for human consumption after Congress quietly lifted a 5-year-old ban on funding horse meat inspections, and activists say slaughterhouses could be up and running in as little as a month. ...
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Stop Dennis Chavez's Cruelty To His Livestock! TAKE ACTION!
Animals  (tags: horses, AnimalCruelty, AnimalWelfare, cruelty, death, crime, investigation, killing, pets, protection, suffering )

Lindsey
- 58 days ago - change.org
Dennis Chavez Video File.wmv: http://youtu.be/yij-mNuMM8I via @youtube These animals should never suffer this way. A vet is on site at this auction house, but nothing was done to end these horses suffering. This Auction house needs to be shut down.
37 comments
Animal Petition: Stop The Cheltenham Festival From Killing Horses! SIGN!
Animals  (tags: wildanimals, wildlife, suffering, protection, sadness, crime, cruelty, death, abused, AnimalCruelty, AnimalWelfare, animalcruelty, horses, England, killing, horse racing )

Jim
- 65 days ago - forcechange.com
Five horses at the Cheltenham Festival were killed this year after only two days of racing. This catastrophe has caused the England festival to be watched very carefully by animal welfare organizations. Any type of horse racing can be tremendously
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Shut Down the Horse Slaughter Houses in Canada!! Canada's Horse-Slaughter Industry: A Harrowing Case of Inhumanity. SIGN!!!
Animals  (tags: abused, AnimalCruelty, AnimalWelfare, animalrights, horses, slaughterhouses, Europe, Canada, Asia, World, cruelty, crime, death )

Jim
- 66 days ago - forcechange.com
The horse slaughter industry in Canada is one of the largest; these gentle animals that have served us for centuries are shipped off to factories and forced to endure a tragic fate. Most of these horses come from auctions where about half of them end up
145 comments
24 Baby Horses Saved From Slaughter In Oregon (VIDEO)
Animals  (tags: horses, baby horses, saved, rescued, happy, good news, AnimalWelfare, wildlife, suffering, slaughter, pets )

Lindsey
- 92 days ago - huffingtonpost.com
For the first time in their young lives, 24 baby horses from Oregon will be receiving the care and nutrition they need thanks to the efforts of rescue workers who purchased them at or en route to auctions where they were likely to have been sold to...
29 comments
South Africa: Two Horses Save Woman From Attacker.
Animals  (tags: horses, animals, humans )

Jill
- 97 days ago - iol.co.za
Kerri-Lee McKenzie was bleeding from a stab wound to her chest and her assailant was telling her he was going to rape her when a horse named Domino, and his stable companion, Archie, came galloping to her rescue.
48 comments
Atlantic City Horse Diving Revival Scrapped After Protests
Animals  (tags: horse diving, horses, AnimalCruelty, AnimalWelfare, crime, cruelty, death, investigation, protection, pets, sadness, suffering, wildlife )

Lindsey
- 98 days ago - huffingtonpost.com
What happened in Atlantic City's past should stay in Atlantic City's past-- especially if it involves high-diving horses. That was the decision made by Anthony Catanoso, owner of the Steel Pier amusement park, who scrapped plans for a comeback of the..
16 comments
ACTION ALERT: Stop Double Decked Horse Transport! PLEASE TAKE ACTION!
Animals  (tags: horses, cruelty, crammed, double decker transport, suffering, legalisation banning )

Simone
- 98 days ago - capwiz.com
It is time to ban double-decked horse transport--the cruel practice of cramming horses into two-tier trailers that are too small to allow horses to stand upright, leading to falls, injuries, trampling and death--and we need your help.
20 comments
Outlaw Horse Slaughter in the United States ACTION
Animals  (tags: horses, slaughter, exports, Fred Upton )

Nancy
- 100 days ago - forcechange.com
Outlaw Horse Slaughter in the United States. Although legislation against horse slaughter in the U.S. has come a long way, horses are still being exported to Mexico and Canada to meet the same fate. We must permanently outlaw horse slaughter and export...
36 comments
Take Action: Start Controlling Equine Breeders in the United States and Prevent Horse Slaughter!
Animals  (tags: horses, slaughter, export, killing, suffering, meat, murdering, ponies, equines )

Kat
- 102 days ago - change.org
The Equine Breeding Certification (EBC) program is a program designed by Cheyenne Little. It requires people to go through a certification program before they can breed their horse. It will prevent unwanted horses.
71 comments
Steel Pier: Stop Horse Diving On Your Grounds! TAKE ACTION!
Animals  (tags: horse diving, horses, AnimalCruelty, AnimalWelfare, crime, cruelty, death, investigation, protection, pets, sadness, suffering, wildlife )

Lindsey
- 106 days ago - change.org
Since the late 1970's the practice of training horses to jump off of a 40 foot platform into a pool of water has gone the way of many other dangerous animal acts ... they faded into an embarrassing history. Forcing animals to engage in unnatural..
43 comments
Kelsey Lefever Sold Horses for Slaughter in Canada Under False Pretenses.
Animals  (tags: horses, raceshorses, suffering, cruelty, death )

Jill
- 125 days ago - articles.philly.com
Charges filed against a Chester County woman for posing as a rescuer of horses while sending them to slaughter have prompted a new round of calls in Congress to end the killing of horses for meat in the United States
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