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Horses Seized in Maryland
People have really suffered due to the poor economy in the United States and around the world. At this time, many are still suffering from adverse economic conditions. When people suffer hardship, animals and pets they are responsible for naturally suffer too.
When economic stress hit Maryland’s Eastern Shore, Canterbury Farms was home to over one hundred Polish Arabian horses. By the time animal welfare authorities were called in, many of the horses were in very bad shape. In fact, some were as much as three hundred pounds underweight.
From The Humane Society Press Release;
CENTREVILLE, Md.— The Humane Society of the United States, the ASPCA (American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals), Days End Farm Horse Rescue and Summer Winds Stables assisted Queen Anne County Animal Control enforcement in the rescue of 133 horses from a Centreville property. The animals were removed from the property by Queen Anne County Animal Control after the County witnessed poor conditions during an inspection of the property. This is one of the largest equine rescues in the state.
When rescuers arrived on the 200-acre property, they found 133 Polish Arabian horses. Many were in poor health and showing signs of neglect. Many of the animals were extremely emaciated and suffering from a variety of medical ailments including overgrown, infected hooves and parasite infestation. Queen Anne County Animal Control initiated this case and reached out to the rescue groups for assistance.
I have difficulty understanding this kind of cruelty and abuse. Certainly this horse breeder could have reached out to animal or specifically horse organisations for help. But the fact is she kept breeding the horses for colts to sell while she was not providing food for them. The horses were starving. I am really trying not to be judgemental, but I truthfully can’t see any reason for this kind of treatment and neglect of animals.
The video below will allow you to see some of the horses.
No animals deserve this. Please, if you know of a situation in which an animal needs help or you yourself need help with your animal, contact the proper people to get assistance. Email fluffy feet and we will also try to find someone to help you.
Animals cannot email, text or make phone calls. It is up to us to be their voices when they need help.
This is what a well cared for Arabian horse should look like.
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Do Pets Have a Sixth Sense?
What do you know that I don't and what do you see that I cannot?
Have you ever wondered if your cat, dog, bird, horse or other pet is psychic? Have you ever witnessed animals do something that makes you think this might be true?
It seems like we are forever hearing about pets who seem to have precognition.Dogs that can sense seizures, cats that know when patients are going to die, animals that predict earthquakes or weather are just a few among the many.
Are these things really precognition or do animals just have a different perspective because of their superior hearing, sense of smell and better understanding of nature?
From Petside;
A new AP-Petside.com poll reveals that Zinno is one of 43 percent of Americans who think theirpet has a sixth sense about bad things happening to their person.
Of these, 47 percent attribute the quality to dogs, 41 percent to cats, 36 percent to fish and 45 percent to other types of pets
Read more at Petside.
I am one of the people who happen to believe animals do have a way of sensing or knowing things. Especially things that concern the humans they love and care for.
I know when I lived in California that more than one of my cat companions sensed earthquakes before they occurred. It is just too bad I didn’t realize what they were trying to tell me the first time before the shaking started. I learned my lesson from that time and started to pay attention to certain cries and movements the cats would make. I was better off and safer from watching them more closely.
But the one thing that has always proved to me that pets can see further ahead than me is the way my dogs and cats never failed to be waiting for me when I came home. I even tried to fool a ginger cat that I lived with for many years. I even tried to have other people at the house watch him and I would sneak up after leaving my car a block or two away because I thought maybe he could recognize the sound of my engine.
Did it ever work? No. In every instance he would perch himself on top of a cabinet that was by the front door in anticipation of my arrival. He never failed.
The same goes for a dog we lived with. My son worked very odd hours and never had a set schedule. But invariably within a half hour of his arriving home, the dog would lay herself down in front of the front door and wait.
How do animals do this? I don’t know. However, I do know it is one of the things that makes them so wonderful to live around. They can always amaze and inspire you.
Once More for Wild Horses
This call for action to help the wild houses of the United States is just a little different.
Instead of signing a petition to the Secretary of the Interior, this time the ASPCA wants you to contact your elected house members and senators to support the proposed budget cuts to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM).
The BLM is the government agency that oversees the care of wild horses and burros. They are also the agency that is in charge of the round ups which subject the horses and burros to so much cruelty and abuse.
This agency has proven to be tone deaf to the people who live in the area where the wild horse roams. Unless those people are very wealthy or run a big ranch and cattle operation. Their attitude and thick headed management of the wild horse herds has led to a tremendous drop in the number of wild horses running free and a tremendous rise in the number of penned animals waiting for adoption or slaughter.
Perhaps if we don’t give them so much money they will have to pull back on their aggressive culling and rounding up of the wild herds that are left. We can only hope.
The ASPCA has made it easy for you to write your email. It is almost completely automatic. Please take a minute to go to the ASPCA Advocacy Center and send your comments.
Thank you for all you do for animals and the environment. 
Posted in Anti-Cruelty Campaigns, environment, horses Tagged abuse, animals, cruelty, horse, horses, wild horses Leave a comment
Air Lift to Starving Horses
Say you own a big horse breeding operation in Montana, good horses, great bloodlines,all the very best and lots of prestige in the horse world.
But then times get tough and you have to go out of business. What do you do with the horses under your care?
Logic would say that any person who cared for animals and supposedly really loved horses would sell them, auction them or if need be donate them to riding schools, camps, etc. But abandon them in fenced areas where there wouldn’t be enough food for the poor animals? Never! Leave a mare to hobble on an exposed bone in her ankle for over a year? Never!
Well unfortunately, never happened to a privately owned herd of 500 to 700 horses in Montana. New owners of the property say the owner who went out of business left many horses there. They finally notified authorities and now there is an effort going on to air lift hay to horses on the ranch.
From Yahoo News;
Stockmen will begin airlifting hay to hundreds of horses left to starve in Montana after their owner’s prestigious breeding operation went out of business, authorities said on Wednesday.
The target of the airdrop and an ongoing effort to truck tons of hay to a 2,000-acre fenced enclosure near Billings in south central Montana are roughly 350 horses whose condition has been steadily deteriorating since the onset of winter and in the absence of food and water.
The 350 horses are part of a larger herd estimated from 500 to 700 head. Hunger forced the other animals to break through fenced pastures and onto the rest of the 40,000 owned and leased acres that once made up the Home Place Ranch operated by James Leachman of Billings.
Law enforcement officials have charged Leachman, 68, with five counts of animal cruelty in what they say is a continuing investigation that may produce more charges.
Read the rest at Yahoo News.
This is a heart breaking story of gross animal cruelty and abuse. The animals on this ranch deserved far better than this and the owner should be punished for their horrible treatment to the fullest extent of the law.
Someone, the new owner of the property or the old owner should have picked up a phone to call authorities a lot sooner than they finally did. They could have called the Humane Society or the ASPCA too. Anyway, they should have done everything in their power to help these horses.
Montana, like Nevada where I live is horse country. If word of the plight of these animals had been broadcast, I am sure that horse people from all over the South Western US would have run to help. There is simply no excuse for something like this happening.
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Dolphin and Dog are BFFs
Yellow Labrador Retriever
It is said you can’t choose your family and that is certainly true. But you can choose your friends and that is exactly what a yellow Labrador Retriever on the island of Tory has done.
Labs are very social, loyal dogs and one of their favorite things in the world is getting in the water. These dogs are strong swimmers and even serve in some places around the world as lifeguards.
So it stands to reason when choosing best friends a Lab would consider the creatures in the water as candidates just like those on land. Ben the Lab is the resident dog at a hotel on Tory Island and he swims in the ocean inlet by his home every chance he gets with his friend Dougie the Dolphin.
This is not the only case of Dolphins and dogs becoming friends. In fact, it seems many water dogs are attracted to swimming with dolphins. But this is a little different in that Ben and Dougie seem to seek out each others company above that of other dogs or dolphins.
When you are thinking about friends, remember Ben and Dougie. A friend doesn’t have to be just like you or share all your opinions. Heck, they don’t even have to be of the same species! If you decide a dog, cat, ferret, horse or other pet is your best friend, that is perfectly all right because animals often make friends that are just as good as humans.
Watch the video of Ben and Dougie as they enjoy a swim together. It isn’t difficult to see the joy they share in each others company and the happiness the water gives them.
Posted in Amazing Animals, Dogs, Video, Whales and Dolphins Tagged animals, cat, dog, Dogs, Dolphins, horse, pet Leave a comment
