A guy from Arkansas was sent to jail for leaving a poor horse tied up on a tree without food or drink, on a neighbors property, without them knowing. Miller County Sheriff’s Dept. Chief Deputy Duke Schofield said that law enforcement personnel discovered the bones & hide of the animal after a tipster reported finding the horse’s remains last week. Cal Jones, 55, is now facing felony cruelty charges for letting the horse die from...

Oh happy day! All the fences are fixed and done! The paddock is now something that no horse will dare run through; The goat fences keep the goat where they should be, and not in our way; and finally the last horse pasture! Now it just needs a new gate because Lina jumped over it, and the goats also need a slimmer gate because they can fit through it. We needed all our not so good and damaged things fixed, and not just fences. Our porch, the...

The New York Times were challenged by the New York Racing Association (NYRA!)  The methodology the New York Times use to determine horse injury rates are claimed to be wrong by the NYRA. Times published the article on March 25, and was corrected in an April 12 press release. The NYRA outlined how the Times developed a metric for an “incident rate,” defined as the number of times a set of terms appeared in official data per 1,000...

Our arena has lots of dirt, weeds, and grass. But no sand. Until now. Just this morning our sand pile had been delivered. It’s a pretty big sand pile, and it was all dumped in the corner of the arena. My, it was fun today. As on every Monday and Tuesday, the Foal Care Course is on. So first it was the glorious hay bales, now the magnificent sand pile. All the children of the course went home with sand in their pants, this afternoon. Since...

Lots of bills about horses and other animals are popping up, and some are becoming law. Now another pending law might be passed in Erie County, NY. In 2011 Suffolk, Albany, and Rockland counties got some new laws, requiring individuals convicted of animal cruelty crimes to submit their names, including aliases, addresses, and a photograph, for inclusion in databases operated in those New York counties. Under a bill sponsored by Erie County...