The wild horses of the American west should be considered a native species as fully deserving of protection as elk or antelope, even though they are the descendants of domestic livestock introduced by European settlers. Or so claim animal rights groups. In a case before a US federal court they are arguing that wild horses [...]
This subject has come up in a couple of different places lately. There seem to be quite a few people who have had experiences that indicate that a stallion will reject breeding his own daughter. I have heard this is true in wild herds.
Global TV’s 16:9 The Bigger Picture Program on Wild Horses: The Rest of the Story Claudia Notzke, Ph.D., Associate Professor at the University of Lethbridge sent us this very interesting post. I had the dubious distinction (as I see it now) of being interviewed for Global TV’s recent program on Alberta’s wild horses. For a [...]
Bob Henderson of WHOAS – Wild Horses of Alberta Society has sent us a couple of photos of the first wild horse foal of 2011. He says it is the earliest wild horse foal he has seen in all his years of being out there with them. The dam is the lead mare of the [...]
Going to see a movie about wild horses in the Canadian Rockies, I wasn’t sure that I wanted to go see a movie that showed horses dying, being chased and basically struggling to survive. I ended up going – thanks to encouragement from my blog boss, and I ended up learning a lot and thinking [...]
The horse trappers are busy trapping wild horses out of the Alberta foothills and sending them to the slaughter plant. None of us who live around here are sure why. It certainly can’t be that there are too many of them as we have to search to find them any more. It is heartbreaking to [...]
Do not enter this draw. It is over. You would be wasting your time as the draw has already been made. If you would like to purchase a calendar and support the wild horses in Alberta More information here. Looking for a unique gift that any horse lover would be more than happy to unwrap [...]
When my friend Bob Henderson sent me some info about the wild horses the other day, he included some photos of what appears to be a tornado in one of the areas where he monitors the wildies. He says: Also when I was out there I came a cross a valley where the Sundre Tornado had [...]
Doreen’s latest blog post starts out: It has been a busy week for wild foals in trouble. We got a call from Kathy Bartley of the Bear Valley Rescue Centre stating that some people found a very young wild foal with badly swollen back legs. They didn’t want to see the baby get torn apart by wolves and [...]
Doreen from WHOAS has sent us some photos of herself riding Wyley a former wild horse and meeting up with a wild stallion in Wyley’s old stomin’ grounds out west. If you haven’t already read the story of Wyley’s rescue you still can http://northernhorse.com/wildhorses/index.php/category/wyley-the-wildie/ Doreen has a love for the wildies that is bigger than [...]
The Cloud Foundation has announced “Herd Watch – Public Eyes for Public Herds” with the purpose to create a concise database of information regarding the health and welfare of the wild horses and burros across ten Western states. The database will be used as a tool to educate and inform the public and to provide [...]
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