One Horse In the News

[One Horse at a Time, Inc.]

We are very excited to see a portion of our recent interview with "The Horse" Magazine on the online site. Hopefully, the signatures will take off. Take a look.

http://www.thehorse.com/ViewArticle.asp ... 96#related

[Madge]

COOL!!!! This is awesome!!!

[scoobysmom]

It is marvelous, isn't it!

[One Horse at a Time, Inc.]

Good article on the Celebration, the petition is listed.
http://www.kentucky.com/211/story/508666.html

[IMustBeCrazy]

WHOO HOO! What a great way to start the morning.

[maryt]

That is great news

[scoobysmom]

Excellent!

[scoobysmom]

This is a different type of news but wanted to tell everybody. Just got my "One Horse at a Time" shirt from Zazzle, it is awesome! The color is so pretty and it is made from a good quality fabric, not the cheapy stuff. So, anybody that that has been hesitant in ordering a shirt from there, go for it. You will love it!

[IMustBeCrazy]

what color did you get? Not white was it???

[scoobysmom]

Ha Ha
No, it is blue. I remember reading your posts about how dirty your shirt got from "playing" with the horses! LOL

[Mr. Midnight's Mom]

http://www.kentucky.com/595/story/496900.html

Readers' views

Stop the practice of "soring' in horse shows


On Aug. 7, the Association of Equine Practictioners issued a white paper about the practice of ”soring“ in the Tennesse walking horse industry.


Calling it one of the most significant welfare issues affecting any equine breed or discipline, the association issued recommendations for eliminating the abusive practice. Soring is the infliction of pain to create an extravagant or exaggerated gait in horses for training or show purposes.


Strangely enough, there has been a federal law on the books (enacted under the 1970 Horse Protection Act) that prohibits this abuse. Unfortunately, Congress completely underfunded the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), which is charged with enforcing this law.


As a result, USDA inspectors inspect less than 10 percent of the shows. Surrogate inspectors, who more often than not are employed by the Tennesee walking horse industry, are used to inspect the remaining 90 percent of the shows and venues.


The difference in the number of violations written when the USDA inspectors are there versus the ”fox guarding the hen house“ inspectors is astronomical.


People are breaking the law because we can't enforce it. We can't enforce it because the agency charged with enforcing it is not funded adequately. This has to stop. The pain these horses are subjected to is incredible. For what? To get an exaggerated high stepping gait?


I urge people to write public officials and sign an on-line petition at http://www.thepetitionsite.com/petition/533003783.


Penny Austin


Vice President/Treasurer


One Horse at a Time, Inc.


Nicholasville

[Mr. Midnight's Mom]

http://www.thehorse.com/Video.aspx?vID=292

[Mr. Midnight's Mom]

http://www.thehorse.com/ViewArticle.asp ... 067&src=VW

[Mr. Midnight's Mom]

http://www.kentuckyhorse.org/attachment ... y_2009.pdf

[Mr. Midnight's Mom]

Lovely article about OHAAT'S ADOPTION OF BLUFF in the first issue of EquineConnections.

http://content.yudu.com/Library/A1n4zw/ ... pring-2010

[snowshoehair]

Excellent article Penny. Didn't you say the author was the adoption coordinator at the Secretariat Center when we adopted Bluff?

[Mr. Midnight's Mom]

Yes I did

[pet]

Great article! Start reading at the end of page 19

[Mr. Midnight's Mom]

http://canadianhorsedefencecoalition.wordpress.com/