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AVMA News
MAY 19, 2025
Equestrian convened a summit of veterinary experts in March to draft standards of care for performance horses. The group hopes to publish its guidelines this summer.
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AVMA News
MAY 3, 2024
In an effort to end horse soring at Tennessee Walking Horse shows, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced April 29 that it is strengthening Horse Protection Act (HPA) regulations.
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AVMA News
JUNE 10, 2024
A team of researchers has developed a questionnaire to help horse owners identify and monitor signs of osteoarthritis pain to facilitate earlier and more effective treatment for horses.
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AVMA News
OCTOBER 19, 2023
Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is seeking public comments on a proposed rule to strengthen Horse Protection Act (HPA) requirements.
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AVMA News
MARCH 14, 2023
A persistent and potentially growing concern, according to experts, is the running of unsanctioned, informal horse races. Unregulated horse racing is dangerous for horses and riders, and diseases such as equine infectious anemia and equine piroplasmosis can spread at these bush tracks.
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AVMA News
APRIL 16, 2025
Department of Agricultures Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is postponing the effective date of strengthened Horse Protection Act (HPA) regulations into early next year.
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AVMA News
MAY 2, 2024
The policy topics ranged from horse tripping to goat and sheep disbudding and dehorning to the veterinarian’s role in the opioid epidemic. The AVMA Board of Directors (BOD) updated and adopted several policies during its April 4-5 meeting at AVMA headquarters in Schaumburg, Illinois.
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AVMA News
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
The Food and Drug Administration announced in January that the agency had approved new generic drugs for cats, dogs, and horses and granted a supplemental approval for a generic drug for use in ferrets.
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AVMA News
JULY 31, 2024
Updates to the Horse Protection Act remove the ability for horse industry organizations to train and license inspectors. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service will screen and train applicants, preferably veterinarians, to be horse protection inspectors. Instead, the U.S.
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AVMA News
MARCH 1, 2024
The AVMA and American Association of Equine Practitioners (AAEP) have jointly created the Effective Equine Care Guide, a free resource that veterinary teams in equine practice can use to develop healthy communication and positive partnerships between staff members and horse owners.
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AVMA News
APRIL 3, 2025
The AVMA is actively lobbying Congress on key issues such as rural veterinary shortages and access to essential drugs while also supporting measures aiding pet owners in affording veterinary care and preventing horse soring.
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AVMA News
MARCH 6, 2025
A passion for horses led to a career in equine medicine for Dr. Sara Langsam, a member of the American Association of Equine Practitioners board of directors and the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authoritys Horsemen's Advisory Group.
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AVMA News
MARCH 27, 2023
Ferrin Peterson has always wanted to ride the winning horse at the Kentucky Derby, and she has never been closer than now to achieving her dream. She’s had a total of 1,135 starts, including 102 first-place finishes.
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AVMA News
AUGUST 7, 2023
The latest list of veterinary clinical studies in the AVMA Animal Health Studies Database (AAHSD) are available, including a study on the treatment of large skin melanoma or squamous cell carcinoma tumors in horses using high-frequency irreversible electroporation (H-FIRE).
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AVMA News
MARCH 28, 2023
The Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority’s (HISA) Anti-Doping and Medication Control (ADMC) officially launched March 27. Under the ADMC Program, racing will have centralized testing driven by an investigative unit and will institute harmonization among laboratories.
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Animal Person
APRIL 20, 2009
In " Hungary's Spirits Are Back Up, on a Horse ," the New York Times' Nicholas Kulish reports that a thoroughbred known as Overdose, who is owned by Hungarian Zoltan Mikoczy, has become "the Hungarian Seabiscuit. million for the horse, but has refused to sell. “I You do not sell dreams.” And when he can make a politician look good.
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 13, 2016
Big Horse Creek is a popular camping spot for fisherman with a boat ramp that is accessible to two-wheel drive vehicles. It is also a very popular park for accessing the Victoria River to catch a Barramundi! There are plenty of opportunities for observing crocodiles, a huge variety of birds, rock art, hiking trails and spectacular scenery.
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Critter News
JANUARY 18, 2011
Tyson Larson introduced LB 305 on Wednesday, which would create a state meat inspection program, which would in turn allow horse meat to be transported across state lines. If they don't want us to process horses, what are we supposed to do?". He also introduced LB 306, otherwise known as the Livestock Animal Welfare Act.
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Critter News
APRIL 1, 2010
Missouri is going to vote on allowing horse slaughterhouses back into the State. Some of the legislators started harassing the horse activist. Some legislators programmed their e-mail systems to forward any message containing the word "horse" to Shoss. Tags: Stupid legislation horse slaughter Missouri.
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Critter News
MARCH 9, 2009
I've received so many donation requests from "People Helping Horses" that I finally decided to send a donation. I've never been around horses much, but a friend of mine who has 3 horses and 2 burros (!) told me that horse groups have been hit particularly hard with the economy. Definitely one I want to follow.
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Critter News
FEBRUARY 25, 2009
It's that if you don't have the funds, and you don't have the feed, and don't have the place to keep them, and they are old, and they are no longer going to work for what you need them for, it's a place for them to go," said Billings Livestock and Horse Sale's Jenn Parker. Maybe then can call it Horse Haven. Tags: horse.
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NOVEMBER 29, 2008
Boone Pickens said {November 18} that she would create a refuge for wild horses, after the federal agency that manages them said it might have to kill some to control the herds and protect the Western range. About 33,000 wild horses and burros roam the open range in 10 Western states. The wife of the Texas oil tycoon T.
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Critter News
APRIL 5, 2009
Looks like Montana's state government is heading towards the approval of horse slaughterhouses, but there are hurdles at the federal level. Tags: meat montana horses USDA Slaughterhouse us. The only real markets for horsemeat are overseas and product must be inspected by the USDA before it can be shipped outside the US.
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Critter News
DECEMBER 12, 2011
An internal review by the US Bureau of Land Management admits that the roundup of wild horses has involved some mistreatment, but they refuse to admit the treatment was inhumane. The Bureau of Land Management's internal review of a wild horse roundup in Nevada in Sept., Excerpted from USA Today.
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Critter News
DECEMBER 6, 2011
Bad news for horses in the US. 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. Read the complete article at pantagraph.com.
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Critter News
JUNE 6, 2012
This article reaffirms my belief that it's more humane to slaughter horses in the US than to ship them for slaughter to Canada or Mexico. I don't like it either way, but one is better than the other for sure.
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Critter News
FEBRUARY 2, 2010
The Animal Welfare Institute thinks these new rules could be a blow to the horse slaughter industry, but only if actually implemented. Tags: canada meat horse slaughter Slaughterhouse.
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Critter News
MAY 3, 2009
Montana has passed a law making it difficult to challenge the building of a horse slaughtering facility in that state. Tags: horse slaughter. The last such facility in the US closed in 2007. This bill specifically makes for groups that might oppose it to use the court system to do so. From the bill, which you can read here : Section 2.
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APRIL 5, 2009
From Elizabeth Forel, of the Coalition to Ban Horse-Drawn Carriages. Tell the governor's office that (live) horses are a symbol of the American West and Montana should not want to be known as the horse slaughter capitol of the country. The danger is that the amendments will be made and the bill will be signed into law.
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Critter News
JUNE 9, 2011
Welfare officers from international animal welfare charity The Donkey Sanctuary have reported an improvement in the welfare of donkeys and other equines at this year’s Appleby Horse Fair in Cumbria, which finished earlier this week.
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Critter News
DECEMBER 22, 2011
Animal rights groups are calling for a ban on the sale of horse meat after disturbing video at a slaughterhouse in west Quebec was sent to the Canadian Horse Defence Coalition. It shows a parade of horses being stunned with what's called a captive bolt pistol. Captured on video, is one horse being stunned 11 times.
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4 The Love Of Animals
JUNE 26, 2012
A Farrier is a professional with a very unique set of skills, they are able to care for and treat ailments found in hoofed animals including horses, ponies and some other animals. This act was created to ensure proper care is provided to horses by eliminating unskilled people from attempting to shoe them.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 20, 2011
Naturalists examining old nests have identified raccoon, opossum, dog, fox squirrel, red squirrel, rabbit, horse, cow, cat, mouse, woodchuck, and even human hair in titmouse nests.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 13, 2011
The Loch of Strathbeg reserve in Aberdeenshire Scotland has begun to use eight rare ‘Konick’ horses to manage and improve it’s wetland habitats for birds. Now, thanks to the grazing habits of these horses, the machines can be ditched and an au naturel approach to habitat management adopted.
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OCTOBER 3, 2013
Above the farms and the white horses. October, as Dylan Thomas perceived it, was awash with avian activity: My birthday began with the water-. Birds and the birds of the winged trees flying my name. And I rose. In rainy autumn. And walked abroad in a shower of all my days. High tide and the heron dived when I took the road. Over the border.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 5, 2011
Before I delve into details about the poem I should probably share it with you so we have a text in common: Purple Martins If we were such and so, the same as these, maybe we too would be slingers and sliders, tumbling half over in the water mirrors, tumbling half over at the horse heads of the sun, tumbling our purple numbers.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 7, 2014
The Ash-throated Flycatchers ( Myiarchus cinerascens ) pictured below start their nest base with dry cow or horse dung. The cup is made up of dry grasses, rootlets, and weed stems, then lined with finer grasses, hair and fur. The nestling has darker down and whiter gape flanges than the nuthatch nestlings.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 7, 2014
There are many stories at Dunrovin – rescued horses, challenging dogs, miniature donkeys with flamboyant personalities – but two of the stars are a pair of Osprey s dubbed Ozzie and Harriet. Recently I started working with Dunrovin Ranch, a local guest ranch, on their web project Days at Dunrovin.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 30, 2020
There was a rapid clacking sound coming from the brush in several spots, and when I managed to find one of the clackers, it turned out to be a large and quite colorful Horse Lubber Grasshopper, Taeniopoda eques. Sometimes it is a flower (of which there were oodles), a reptile (lizards, and a small snake), or an insect.
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10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 20, 2014
The village of Otham has so far completely failed to trouble the local eBird invigilators who are probably curled up in a comfy chair by the fire in The White Horse, gently snoring.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 8, 2015
I’ve rescued field mice to horses, and everything in between. Dear Outdoor Cat Owners/Feral Cat Supporters, Does the photo above sicken you? It sickens me. I have been rescuing animals, both wild and domestic, since I was a child. I’m allergic to cats, but in my lifetime I’ve rescued five of them.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 30, 2022
Most Morelians go there on the weekends to ride horses and make carne asada. I headed on the 21st to the local favorite for country outings, a park known as Kilómetro 23 (because of its distance from downtown Morelia). I go there on Mondays to see birds, feeling thankful that most other Morelians only go there on the weekends.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 5, 2013
So does another located at Dunrovin Ranch (in the background of which you can occasionally see poet Mackenzie Cole and others of my MFA buddies working on horse training.) The Hellgate Canyon nesting platform has a nestcam trained on it. Most notable of all, though, is the nest at the baseball field.
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