Montana’s “honorable(?)” Ed Butcher is not content with simply being dipped in horse blood and dubbed the Ringleader of one of the most ornery gangs of GOP thugs in the entire United States. Heck no, he attempts to carry it a step further and show the good people...
opinion by rtfitch | 5 wks ago 35 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Earlier this year, Montana’s Rep. Ed Butcher, Republican (yes; that is really his name) shoved down the collective throats of the state’s public and Legislature a bill, HB 418, that would not only open the door for the construction of horse slaughter plants...
opinion by rtfitch | 7 wks ago 128 views | 4 recommendations | 5 comments
It’s out in the open, there’s no denying or running away from it now. The anti-horse people have been attempting to keep it under wraps for ages but, today, it’s staring them right in the face and there’s a great big draft horse standing in their living rooms;...
opinion by rtfitch | 15 wks ago 95 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CHICAGO, (EWA) – Subsequent to the issuance of a press release challenging the results of the Unwanted Horse Coalition’s survey, a complaint was filed against EWA that brought down our website. The individual filing the complaintwas not a recipient...
created by rtfitch | 19 wks ago 177 views | 1 recommendation | 4 comments
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CHICAGO, (EWA) – The Unwanted Horse Coalition, a subsidiary of the American Horse Council continues to present a false facade of neutrality on the explosive issue of horse slaughter in America, all the while doing everything in its considerable power...
created by rtfitch | 19 wks ago 121 views | 2 recommendations | 0 comments
Last night, July 3rd, I entered Terry’s office to shut down the computer prior to heading for bed. Everyone else was tucked away and I was just doing the last minute security sweep when my eye’s caught the bright glare of a fireworks rocket heading for the stars in the...
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The Horseman’s drink that puts the “Giddy-up” into the Summertime Doldrums MAGNOLIA, TX – (SFHH) It’s 3 PM and you have just finished that last section of fencing in the back pasture. Of course you are a little worn out due to all of the help you had...
created by rtfitch | 21 wks ago 67 views | 1 recommendation | 0 comments
RURAL CERESCO — Maybe Tiger can’t believe his good fortune on this Friday morning. He gets to walk out of his dirt pen, cross the private road that leads to the house on the hill, and spend a few minutes in the tall bromegrass — eating his first greens in at least a...
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Bill Turner, 61, bought Zebedee from a game reserve in Holland for £4,500 and learned to ride the animal in just two weeks. Zebras are much less co-operative and more difficult to ride than horses, owing to...
created by rtfitch | 22 wks ago | updated 22 wks ago 115 views | 2 recommendations | 3 comments
Horses on the Hill Over the years I have received a multitude of emails asking what can be done to halt the slaughter of the symbol of our national heritage, the American Horse. Often I have felt helpless in offering no more than a simple letter to the...
created by rtfitch | 22 wks ago 110 views | 10 recommendations | 1 comment
What You Can Do to Help Save Cloud’s Herd and America’s Wild Horses Over 40% of America’s wild horses have been removed from the wild from 2000-2008 alone and if the agency responsible for managing our wild horses, the Bureau of Land Management, does not change we are...
created by rtfitch | 22 wks ago 538 views | 7 recommendations | 2 comments
Manns Choice, PA (SFHH) - Christy Sheidy, Co-founder of Another Chance 4 Horses, reports that her organization tracked down a dealer in Virginia who purchased the sorrel and white and then sold the horse to a kill buyer. The horse was located in the New Holland kill...
opinion by rtfitch | 22 wks ago | updated 22 wks ago 145 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments