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Animal Cruelty at Texas Horse Farm

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50 surviving horses were rescued. The Humane Society of the United States, SPCA of East Texas and Humane Society of North Texas worked with the Smith County District Attorney's Office to rescue 50 horses from a Lindale property. For the full story, go here to KLTV.com.

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Thoroughbred Dealer Convicted of Animal Cruelty

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The 52-year-old Long Island resident was charged after state police and animal welfare investigators raided his farm in Coxsackie in April and seized 177 malnourished horses. Most of the horses were eventually adopted by other horse farms around the nation, but several were in such poor shape they had to be euthanized.

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Finding a Cackling Goose

10,000 Birds

It was on the side of the road in a field at Blue Chip Farm, a large horse farm near the town of Wallkill. On Sunday, the same day that I enjoyed a bunch of winter birds in Sullivan County and Ulster County, I also had a chance encounter with a diminutive goose. No, finding a Cackling Goose takes a bit more work than that!

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