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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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Hoof Power Returning to Farms
My father and grandfather would be very surprised to hear bringing oxen back to do a lot of work tractors usually do in the US is big news. When they were farming they used both oxen and draft horses to pull plows, clear fields and do any number of other things.
I personally have seen these animals hooked up to different pieces of equipment and working the farm. But that was in Amish country where the farmers don’t usually use tractors at all. However, unless they have gone to a fair or special show, many people under 50 may not have seen these huge and strong animals do their stuff.
It is great really when you think about it. You don’t have to waste fossil fuel and pollute the air when you use oxen and you get a whole lot of fertilizer for the compost heap and eventually the garden.
From The New York Times;
Standing just inside the paddock at Moon in the Pond Farm, where he works, he put a rope around Lucas and Larson, his pair of Brown Swiss steer. He led them to the 20-pound maple yoke he had bought secondhand from another ox farmer, hoisted it over their necks and led them trundling through the fence so they could begin hauling fallen logs.
Mr. Ciotola, 32, is one of a number of small farmers who are turning — or rather returning — to animal labor to help with farming. Before the humble ox was relegated to the role of historical re-enactor, driven by men in period garb for child-friendly festivals like pioneer days, it was a central beast of burden. After the Civil War, many farms switched from oxen to horses. Although Amish and Mennonite communities continue to use horses, by World War II most draft animals had been supplanted by machines that allowed for ever-faster production on bigger fields.
I am all for working and draft animals helping on the farm. They don’t pollute, are quieter, nicer to look at and they smell a whole lot better, too….really.
Worlds Most Expensive Dog
Chinese bred Tibetan Mastiff
Recently an eleven month old Tibetan Mastiff puppy was sold. In and of itself that is no big news, but the price the puppy was sold for is very big news, indeed.
From Care 2;
A red Tibetan Mastiff puppy became the world’s most expensive dog after his owner paid $1.5 million (U.S.) dollars for him.
The prized 11 month-old puppy, now named Big Splash (Hong Dong in Chinese) was sold to an unidentified man in the Chinese city of Qingdao who is believed to be a multi-millionaire coal baron.
Standing at 3-foot-tall and weighing 180 pounds, Big Splash’s breeder said,“He is a perfect specimen.”
Tibetan Mastiffs are thought to be one of the world’s oldest breeds. Both Genghis Khan and Buddha are believed to have kept them.
Perfect or not, one and a half million dollars is an outlandish price for a dog. I keep wondering how many good and deserving dogs could have been saved for that amount of money. The answer is a whole lot.
I really don’t want to see registered dogs and cats become like thoroughbred race horses who bring exorbitant prices. I don’t care if people want to spend their money in that way. What I don’t like is pricing everyday people who are not rich out of the market if they wish to purchase a purebred dog, cat or horse.
When you put dollar values on animals you take away their identity, just like you do if you put dollar values on people. The animal or the person should not be judged better or worse because of the price paid for them or their net worth. How many times have you read about a dog or cat who was rescued from death in a shelter and then saved the life of the person who rescued them? In other words, they returned the favor. Is that dog or cat less valuable that a purebred Tibetan Mastiff even though their heritage might be uncertain?
I believe they are worth just as much and that you cannot judge a pet or any other animal by the cost it takes to obtain them.
I will give congratulations to the new owner of the great Tibetan Mastiff puppy and I hope your investment pans out for you. I would also hope people don’t feel tempted to judge their pet purely by monetary value.
Prison Cats Help Inmates Change
I have heard about both dogs and horses working to help men and women in prison. However, I wasn’t aware of the large number of prisons that have cats as therapy animals for their prisoners.
From Cat Fancy by way of tellingtont touch.
Nestled in the foothills of the picturesque, vineyard-clad Constantiaberg Mountains in Cape Town, South Africa, in Pollsmoor Prison. The maximum security facility once housed Nelson Mandela, the country’s most famous political prisoner from the apartheid era who later became the country’s first black president. Today it houses murderers, rapists, notorious gangsters and a unique feral cat colony that impacts the lives of those around them.
Read the rest of this great article at tellingtont touch.
Animals do so much for us. I often wonder do we rescue them or do they rescue is? Truthfully it is both.
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. 
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