Slaughter Horse Rescue News - Information about Horse Slaughter

11/05/2024

There is a YouTube video called Horse Slaughter Documentary. It is VERY graphic.
Must see for those that dump their horses or still believe it doesn't happen or support it.
I felt sick after a minute and had to stop watching.

07/08/2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uncSuN3mHOg

A 22,500-acre Refuge for wild horses that have been rescued after they were rounded up by the BLM and sent to Canyon City for 2 years. Now the largest horse...

04/04/2023

How many Lives have been destroyed when bonded Horses were ripped apart without an ounce of consideration!

Lonely horse makes a friend in her final yearCheck out their story: https://www.instagram.com/mockingbirdfarmsanctuary/ ----------------------...

20/03/2023

I no longer watch Horse Racing!

Because the Killpens are filled with uncountable YOUNG Racehorses! Most under SIX years old! If they loose, they may end up with the Amish! And the Amish only know one way to RETIRE a useless Eater: Slaughter! When they no longer can work, they get discarded like an old shoe!

Meaghan Martin said she immediately recognized the branding when the horse, Saxy, popped up on social media and knew she had to save her from being euthanized.

18/03/2023

Deb Lee Carson and Jamie Baldanza are proud to present the award winning pilot episode, “Twin Peaks” from the docu-series “Wild Lands Wild Horses” on YouTube...

23/09/2022

Know that old gelding of yours? You know, the trusty gelding who taught you to ride. We all have one in our pasture. He was the first horse you trusted with your kids. Everything this horse has done has had a purpose behind it.

Now his joints are starting to show arthritis from all the learning you two did together. He probably has slowed down and needs a little extra food. Your family is ready for something with a little more speed and he doesn’t fit the bill. So you convince yourself you are letting him go so he can help teach another child. In your mind, you see him happily trotting down the road with a sweet little girl on his back.

In reality, that little girl will ride and enjoy him for a few years. However, she eventually outgrows him. He’s even slower and she’s ready to run. Her family is not bonded with your horse like you were. They sell him to the inexperienced family down the road.

This family knows nothing about horses. They don’t know how to feed an aged horse. He looses weight. Soon it’s so bad they keep him in the back pasture where no one can see him.
Finally, they take him to a sale.

No one at the sale wants a neglected, aged horse. So he goes through the ring and sells for $400 to a killbuyer. The killpen is where I find him. I know nothing about his history and nothing about his health. All I can see is the wisdom and pain in his eyes. I take him home and hope I will have the opportunity to help him.

As much as I love what I do, I would love to never see one of these poor old guys again. It breaks my heart to know that this is the story of so many animals out there.

So please, please if you can no longer afford to keep your older horses, lease them to a friend or put them down. No one deserves to be forgotten in their elder years.

Writing/photo by Shishana Rourke
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07/08/2022

Critical votes on two horse protection bills and on a funding bill with key horse provisions made today a benchmark date in the long history of equine advocacy by the Humane Society of the United States and Humane Society Legislative Fund. The Subcommittee on Consumer Protection & Commerce of the Ho...

24/08/2021

This would be a beautiful picture, if it wasn't for statistics....

Statistically, being Quarter Horses, 70% of them will end up in Slaughter.

Ranch Horses are often dumped at 10-15yrs, when they are ...worn out. Like the Amish Drafts. Most Thoroughbreds I see are less than 6yrs old.
When you consider that many horses could live into their 30s, ponies as long as 40s-50s....

https://www.facebook.com/778548465493555/posts/2883192801695767/

20/07/2021

So Rumors have it that the anti-slaughter law is getting closer to success....

But now there is the question:

This CAN NOT be a stand-alone solution! There has to be more with it or overpopulation will become a problem and it will fail!

What do YOU think needs to happen?

What do you think do we need to make this work?

03/07/2021

Press Release Contact:Marty Irby • [email protected] Share on twitter Share on facebook Share on email Ending Transport of Horses Across State and National Lines Will Have the Effect of Banning the Trade, Notes Animal Wellness Action WASHINGTON, DC – Tonight, an amendmen...

12/06/2021

https://vimeo.com/560254617?fbclid=IwAR04p_eiH5MKYDsikifuUEMS7wU43dBcmnOzm922ca2JcPNdpbDKMH9Od-Q

June 3rd, 2021 NON-GRAPHIC footage of horses loading into the Mexico transport trucks at the export holding pens in Presidio, Texas. These horses were not sent…

09/05/2021

For more information on the donkey skin trade, please follow this link: https://bray.news/yt-skin-tradeThe Donkey Sanctuary is an international animal welfar...

28/01/2021

So how are we standing on this?

https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2020/01/bill-permanently-banning-horse-slaughter-and-limiting-exports-gets-hearing/

As effective as the annual bans on USDA inspections of horse slaughter for human consumption have been, Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-IL, and Rep. Vern Buchanan,

02/07/2020

I question this article for several reasons:

1. With COVID shutting down auctions nationwide for months and some permanently, those horses had to go somewhere!
2. Between this article & some 'official' numbers, it makes you wonder how many horses go across the border unofficially! With the amount of horses that flood through major feedlots like Fabrizius, Bowie & Kaufman every week....
3. COVID has done so much damage to so many people & owning horses is expensive! If more and more dogs & cats get abandoned....

This sounds to me like wishful thinking... Or a attempt to hide some important information!

https://www.avma.org/javma-news/2020-03-15/horse-slaughter-exports-mexico-decrease

Last year, 53,947 horses were shipped from the United States to Mexico for slaughter.

02/07/2020

https://www.humanesociety.org/resources/facts-about-horse-slaughter

Separate fact from fiction on the issue of slaughtering U.S. horses for food

09/06/2020

http://www.animalsangels.org/investigations/horses/bouvrys-prime-feedlot-investigation-ab-canada-2-14-19-2-15-19?fbclid=IwAR2C5cczqY2uZydUmX8ieNveUcwYyj4pubNyN7FczrulUzf3lK8O2-JqQT8

26/05/2020

08/05/2020

So here is the most important question: How are we going to change mindsets of breeders, owners, users!?

Each year, more than 100,000 horses are exported from the U.S. to slaughterhouses in our neighboring countries.