Monday, January 12, 2009

Americans Against Horse Slaughter

Dear Readers,
Here's a great way to learn more about campaigns against horse slaughter, nationally and in your state. Check out: Americans Against Horse Slaughter .
The home page will tell you about legislation against shipping horses in double-decker trucks, and a link to the film done by the Animal Angels.
On the left side of the page, you'll see a link to state-by-state blogs. I'm especially excited by those, because many of them ask if you'd like to subscribe to the blog (if you're under 18, please check with your parents) and if you'd like to help. This is a super opportunity for you to find WHO in your state is helping horses.
Thanks for helping,
Terri

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Posted by Terri Farley @ 4:18 AM

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Comments: Hi from Anna: re: Madeline Pickens
(article copied from the link Terri posted;)

"Lifelong animal lovers, the Pickens...;

A Dramatic Rescue for Doomed Wild Horses of the West

By Lyndsey Layton
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, November 18, 2008; A01

The wheels had been set in motion to put down about 2,000 healthy mustangs, those in a federally maintained herd of wild horses and burros that no one wanted to adopt.

The Bureau of Land Management officials were proceeding slowly, afraid of an intense public outcry. The wild horses had become too expensive to maintain, and cattlemen argued that turning them loose would be a drain on the already scarce grazing lands of the West.

Then yesterday, at a public hearing in Reno, Nev., to discuss the issue, a solution arrived on a white horse, so to speak.

Madeleine Pickens, wife of billionaire T. Boone Pickens, made known her intentions to adopt not just the doomed wild horses but most or all of the 30,000 horses and burros kept in federal holding pens. Lifelong animal lovers, the Pickenses just a few years ago led the fight to close the last horse slaughterhouse in the United States.

Madeleine Pickens is looking for land in the West that would be an appropriate home for the horses.

She is working with the BLM staff to adopt the horses, said Henri Bisson, the bureau's deputy director, while the agency persuades Congress to shift $20 million in funding to feed and protect the horses now in captivity for another year. As backup to Pickens's offer, he said, two other groups, both animal rescue organizations, have expressed similar interest in adoption.
comment: There are no unwanted Horses...every Horse is a jewel;
  I will check it out!
  Hi Butterscotch Pony;

I was reading your profile and I guess you want to buy a Horse one day ?

Believe this or not; I am the same way; buying a Horse and paying someone to stall the Horse (I lvie in an apartment) is my life's dream

To own my own Mustang would be
so great; to care for her or him;

I like to go to the Last Chance Rescue pages and look at the Mustang Foals which are usually lost and rescued by the BLM and then transferred to Andi's ranch where she tends to the foals;

Sweetie; America's Mustang is from The Last Chance Ranch in Oregon;

I'll go to the web and send links;

thanks Butterscotch Poney and other
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