Thursday, March 31, 2011

Equine Welfare Alliance Announces First Four Legged Member « Straight from the Horse's Heart

Equine Welfare Alliance Announces First Four Legged Member « Straight from the Horse's Heart

Lukas, the World’s Smartest Horse and his human, Karen Murdock have joined Equine Welfare Alliance (EWA). I’m sure most of you are familiar with Lukas but just in case – Lukas can identify numbers, shapes, letters and colors and was recognized by the World Records Academy and Guinness World Records as the smartest horse.

Nebraska Horse Eating Senators Spew Lies about Slaughter and HSUS « Straight from the Horse's Heart

Nebraska Horse Eating Senators Spew Lies about Slaughter and HSUS « Straight from the Horse's Heart

Senators advanced a bill in Nebraska on Wednesday to allow for a state meat inspection program and possibly a horse slaughter and processing facility, but one senator took the opportunity to discredit the Humane Society of the United States.

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Update: Cloud’s Herd Survives Worse Winter in 50 Years « Straight from the Horse's Heart

Update: Cloud’s Herd Survives Worse Winter in 50 Years « Straight from the Horse's Heart

Lauryn Wachs and Catherine Stokes, our Cloud Foundation interns, accompanied me on their second journey to the Pryor Mountains. It’s always an adventure and last week was no exception.

Monday, March 28, 2011

Wendie Malick to Star in and Produce Wild Horse Annie On Hallmark Channel « Straight from the Horse's Heart

Wendie Malick to Star in and Produce Wild Horse Annie On Hallmark Channel « Straight from the Horse's Heart

Hallmark Movie Channel announces “Wild Horse Annie,” a Hallmark Movie Channel Original Premiere starring Emmy(R) and Golden Globe nominee Wendie Malick (“Hot in Cleveland,” “Just Shoot Me”), is in development with an anticipated premiere date of Summer 2012. Ms. Malick will also serve as Executive Producer of the film which is adapted from a portion of DeAnne Stillman‘s grand epic Mustang: The Saga of the Wild Horse in the American West. Helen Bartlett (“North Country”) is Executive Producer. The screenplay will be written by Jenny Wingfield (“Man in the Moon”). DeAnne Stillman will also produce.

Sunday, March 27, 2011

Tales from the Darkside of Horse Slaughter « Straight from the Horse's Heart

Tales from the Darkside of Horse Slaughter « Straight from the Horse's Heart

Today, I would like to share some of the hate mail that is picked up by the WordPress filter due to foul language and profane content, so if a few cuss words offend you, please don’t read on.

Saturday, March 26, 2011

Call to Action: Let’s Go Viral for the Wild Horses and Burros « Straight from the Horse's Heart

Call to Action: Let’s Go Viral for the Wild Horses and Burros « Straight from the Horse's Heart

Come on Advocates, this is one message that needs to be spread around to anyone that you know or who you have met. If Wild Horse Annie did it with school children writing letters to Congress we can SURELY do it with the high tech tools that we have at hand. Make a difference, hit the buttons below and spread the word for the sake of the horses and burros.

Friday, March 25, 2011

Fringe Horse Slaughter Faction Infuriates American Public « Straight from the Horse's Heart

Fringe Horse Slaughter Faction Infuriates American Public « Straight from the Horse's Heart

Several days ago we ran an article on the outrageous efforts of Wyoming state rep. Sue Wallis and Dave Duquette, of “United Horseman”, to block an anti-cruelty bill aimed at outlawing the inhumane practice of “horse tripping” in Nevada. With a long record of insidious and despicable escapades behind them this latest trip into the dark side has seemed to touch a nerve in sane American’s across this great nation. The article has been shared across the internet and went viral on FaceBook with multiple comments on the total lack of moral fiber and proper ethics displayed by these two charlatans. With the myriad of comments and emails flowing in we have selected the comment posted by the Equine Welfare Alliance’s Vice President to showcase, here, today. Vicki Tobin sums up the situation and shines the bright spotlight of truth on these bloody denizens of the dark and dank. Take it away, Vicki…

Stop Obama’s Wild Horse Harvesting Machine: aka the BLM « Straight from the Horse's Heart

Stop Obama’s Wild Horse Harvesting Machine: aka the BLM « Straight from the Horse's Heart

Many wild horse and burro advocates made their opinions perfectly clear, in person, to the Bureau of Land Management’s Advisory Board, during their mid-March meeting, on the issue of the BLM’s “new direction” in how the agency will mismanage the remaining few wild horses and burros that remain on their federally protected public land. Now, for those of you who could not attend, you have the opportunity to speak your mind.

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Cruel Queen of Horse Slaughter Suffers Bout of Paranoia « Straight from the Horse's Heart

Cruel Queen of Horse Slaughter Suffers Bout of Paranoia « Straight from the Horse's Heart
Sue Wallis, the fanatical leader of a small, fringe pro-horse slaughter group has publicly admitted that she is beginning to feel “paranoid” due to the heat she and partner Dave Duquette are feeling over supporting a move to derail a bill, SB 356, which is aimed at outlawing the cruel and inhumane practice of “horse tripping” in the state of Nevada. Their barbaric banter has raised the ire of horse owners across the country on more than just this occasion but their intentions are made clear with this latest effort to endorse and support the cruel treatment of horses in Nevada.

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Anti-Wild Horse Bill Passes Nevada Senate Committee « Straight from the Horse's Heart

Anti-Wild Horse Bill Passes Nevada Senate Committee « Straight from the Horse's Heart

LAS VEGAS -- With all the financial trouble Nevada is in, you might think state lawmakers would welcome a project that will bring millions of dollars to the state and attract tourists from around the world.

But a panel in the Nevada State Senate has turned thumbs down to a planned wild horse sanctuary without even hearing from the investors who are backing it.

Who Will Save the Race Horses? « Straight from the Horse's Heart

Who Will Save the Race Horses? « Straight from the Horse's Heart

When it comes to the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation, the New York Times, reporter Joe Drape and the thorny problem of old race horses going off to be butchered in a slaughterhouse, there has been a lot of finger pointing of late. I’m not sure any of it has been constructive. Today, four days after Drape wrote a story in the New York Times that leveled serious charges against the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation and the TRF responded with accusations that Drape is a lousy reporter who badly misrepresented the facts, the industry is no closer to solving a problem that has existed for as long as the sport has.

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Radical Horse Slaughter Group Pushes for Horse Cruelty in Nevada « Straight from the Horse's Heart

Radical Horse Slaughter Group Pushes for Horse Cruelty in Nevada « Straight from the Horse's Heart

Chicago (EWA) -United Horsemen (UH), a 501c3 non-profit organization that promotes horse slaughter, is taking its fight against the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) to a new extreme. Not only does this group oppose every piece of legislation that benefits the welfare of horses but tries to garner support with bogus scare tactics.

Sunday, March 20, 2011

EWA Prez Wins One for the Horses in Slaughter Debate « Straight from the Horse's Heart

EWA Prez Wins One for the Horses in Slaughter Debate « Straight from the Horse's Heart

Over the past four weeks Equine Welfare Alliance (EWA) President John Holland has been engaged in a publicly printed debate on the issue of predatory horse slaughter with Charles Stemholm in Nebraska’s North Platt Telegraph. As most are aware, Nebraska is burdened with a freshman senator that wants to bring bloody horse slaughter to his state while penalizing non-profits who do not take in horses. The bizarre behavior of Sen. Tyson Larson is fueled by the fringe, radical horse eating organization, United Horseman, and the deluded Senator has drank from the kool aide of “Slaughterhouse” Sue Wallis and Dave “Doink” Duquette.

Saturday, March 19, 2011

Equine Sanctuary Certification an Answer for Further Abuse and Neglect « Straight from the Horse's Heart

Equine Sanctuary Certification an Answer for Further Abuse and Neglect « Straight from the Horse's Heart

Over the past several days a dreadful news story has broken about one of the largest Equine Rescues in the world, the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation, willfully and without explanation allowing the care of some 1,000+ horses deteriorate to the point of starvation and death. Well funded but grossly mismanaged the organization unraveled with the horses, who were promised a comfortable and painless retirement, getting the bitter short end of the stick.

Sadistic Horse Haters Target Both Wild and Domestic Horses « Straight from the Horse's Heart

Sadistic Horse Haters Target Both Wild and Domestic Horses « Straight from the Horse's Heart

If perversity, lies, slaughter, blood, gore and criminal misrepresentation make you a tad bit squeamish then I would not recommend that you read any further as Wyoming state Rep. “Slaughterhouse” Sue Wallis and her inane and clueless main squeeze, Dave “Dumb as a Box of Rocks” Duquette are once again unleashing their bloody lies and twisted rhetoric upon the sane world.

Friday, March 18, 2011

Wild Horse Advocates Give Voices to Those Who Cannot Speak for Themselves « Straight from the Horse's Heart

Wild Horse Advocates Give Voices to Those Who Cannot Speak for Themselves « Straight from the Horse's Heart

Video library of Wild Horse Advocates speaking out at the March 2011 BLM Advisory Board Meeting. Includes notable Madeleine Pickens, Michael Blake, Ginger Kathrens and many more dedicated advocates of wild horses and burros.

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Obama’s BLM Squandered Wild Horse Funds Now Looking for Help « Straight from the Horse's Heart

Obama’s BLM Squandered Wild Horse Funds Now Looking for Help « Straight from the Horse's Heart

As part of the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) alleged “New Strategy” the agency claims that it is extending its hand “soliciting proposals for private-public partnerships to establish wild horse ‘ecosanctuaries’ on non-BLM managed land.” In a press release, dated 03/16/2011, the BLM states that they will entertain said partnerships in an effort to help the BLM care and feed the “excess” wild horses the BLM have removed from their rightful homes.

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Breaking News: BLM Annouces that Lack of Funds Translates into No More Wild Horse Roundups for Fiscal Year 2011 « Straight from the Horse's Heart

Breaking News: BLM Annouces that Lack of Funds Translates into No More Wild Horse Roundups for Fiscal Year 2011

Today during opening remarks of the BLM Advisory Board Meeting high ranking agency officials revealed that due to current budget restraints the BLM has canceled all of the summer roundups for fiscal year 2011.

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

BLM to Hold Possibly Illegal Meeting in Phoenix With Bogus Trustees « Straight from the Horse's Heart

BLM to Hold Possibly Illegal Meeting in Phoenix With Bogus Trustees « Straight from the Horse's Heart

HOUSTON, (Horseback) – The Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board will sit in judgment of the nation’s wild horse policy in Phoenix for the next two days. But the meeting will be questionable, and possibly illegal, since three board members whose terms expired last July continue to serve at taxpayer expense and an additional board member’s term is clouded by allegations she is head of a sham wildlife advocacy group.

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

OBAMA Wild Horse Posts Still Unfilled, Board’s Current Makeup Suspect at Best « Straight from the Horse's Heart

OBAMA Wild Horse Posts Still Unfilled, Board’s Current Makeup Suspect at Best « Straight from the Horse's Heart

HOUSTON, (Horseback) – The federal Bureau of Land Management faces a burgeoning scandal that threatens to embroil to cabinet level agencies.

Three members of the agency’s Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board should have left their post on June 14, 2010, but continue to serve despite shady authority to have their terms extended until new members are appointed.

Monday, March 7, 2011

Video Shows BLM Contractor Targeting Pregnant Wild Horses « Straight from the Horse's Heart

Video Shows BLM Contractor Targeting Pregnant Wild Horses « Straight from the Horse's Heart

During the much contested roundup of 1,400 wild horses in Northern Nevada’s Antelope complex many disturbing videos and photos came to the public’s attention, to no avail. There was the filmed case of a mare that was run to exhaustion and finally collapsed on the ground, where the helicopter continued to harass her, and the multiple photos of the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) flying stampede contractor, Sun-J, using their aircraft as a weapon and physically assaulting lone and defenseless horses. Likewise, Terry and I witnessed other atrocities while we spent time with Laura Leigh until the early conclusion of this tragic debacle.

Sunday, March 6, 2011

Wild Horse and Burro Preservation Groups Announce Phoenix Press Conference and Rally to Call for Immediate Halt to Roundups « Straight from the Horse's Heart

Wild Horse and Burro Preservation Groups Announce Phoenix Press Conference and Rally to Call for Immediate Halt to Roundups « Straight from the Horse's Heart

Phoenix, AZ (March 6, 2011)— The Cloud Foundation, Respect4Horses, The Habitat for Horses Advisory Council, Grassroots Horse, and American Wild Horse Advocates will hold a special press conference on the current state of America’s mismanaged wild horses and burros. Groups are calling for an immediate halt to all Bureau of Land Management (BLM) roundups that are destroying the last of America’s wild herds at enormous and escalating taxpayer expense. The media and the interested public are encouraged to attend this public press conference at the Phoenix Sheraton Downtown Hotel (340 N. 3rd street) from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 10th.

Saturday, March 5, 2011

Equine Photographer Battles to Spread Wild Horse Message « Straight from the Horse's Heart

Equine Photographer Battles to Spread Wild Horse Message « Straight from the Horse's Heart

Last year Amateur Equine Photographer, Terry Fitch, won the nations approval and the People’s Choice award with her photo of a rescued horse adopted by country western singer, Willie Nelson. (click HERE) This year the judges at the Equine Photographers Network have selected several of Terry’s equine shots as finalist but she is hoping for top votes on just one, “Dueling Band Stallions” (Extreme Action), in an effort to increase and enhance the public’s knowledge and appreciation for our disappearing national icons, the wild horse.

Friday, March 4, 2011

No Economic Advantage in Slaughtering Horses « Straight from the Horse's Heart

No Economic Advantage in Slaughtering Horses « Straight from the Horse's Heart

Mr. Stenholm referred to the USDA statistics that I referenced (to show that we still have as many horses as ever going to slaughter) as “dubious numbers”. He also referred to the 900 pages of horrific images of mangled horses arriving at slaughter in Texas as “dirty pictures”. Those photos were also from the USDA and were exposed under a FOIA request.

Thursday, March 3, 2011

Take a Stand for America’s Disappearing Wild Horses « Straight from the Horse's Heart

Take a Stand for America’s Disappearing Wild Horses « Straight from the Horse's Heart

March 10th and 11th the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Advisory Board will be meeting at the Sheraton Phoenix Downtown Hotel, 340 N. 3rd Street , Phoenix, AZ 85004 to further cloud the facts and accelerate the demise of our national icons in accordance with the whims of the special interests that make up the board. This meeting, with your help, will not go quietly into the night.

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Feds Expose Horse Eaters for Fools That They Are « Straight from the Horse's Heart

Feds Expose Horse Eaters for Fools That They Are « Straight from the Horse's Heart

HOUSTON, (Horseback) – The federal government says plans from a rookie Nebraska legislator to bring horsemeat processing to Nebraska are as dead as the severed horse hooves at a Mexican abattoir.

BLM Mantra: Private Cattle On, Wild Horses Off « Straight from the Horse's Heart

BLM Mantra: Private Cattle On, Wild Horses Off « Straight from the Horse's Heart

During the final days of the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) “scorched earth” wild horse eradication program on Northern Nevada’s public lands private cattle were being quickly herded onto the same range that native, wild horses were cruelly removed from just hours before.