Posted by on Jan 9, 2014 in Association News | 1 comment
Toni Veitch, who ran BankEnd Rescue in Selby, is one who was a staunch supporter of those who were importing horses from the French abattoir queues. She was given ‘rescued’ horses by the Essex dealer who herself neglected many.
We were shown photographs of the state of several of the horses whose condition brought this court case to bear, and I have rarely seen worse states of...
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Posted by on Nov 18, 2013 in Association News | 0 comments
Great news from Spain – a Spanish Bullfighter has become the first to be reprimanded and fined for abuse of a horse. Admittedly the fine is negligible, but hopefully this will set a precedent.
This is the link, and a google translation of the text...
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Posted by on Sep 29, 2013 in Association News | 0 comments
Not so long ago, somebody came up with the very clever but also simple idea of linking dinner/supper parties.
The basic premise is one lovely kind person invites another five lovely kind people round for a meal, and stands the cost of that meal themselves.
Each guest pays the host(ess) a fiver for the evening, and that money goes to ERF.
Each of those five people has then to host a meal for...
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Posted by on Jan 19, 2013 in Association News | 2 comments
This SKY NEWS article is a must read for anyone who breeds indiscriminately, or passes on older or lame horses – Turner’s Abattoir, Cheshire is where many of these horses end up.
The answer is not no slaughterhouses, but more that are regularly and diligently policed by welfare bodies. This is happening because these abattoirs are inundated with more unwanted animals than they can...
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Posted by on Oct 31, 2012 in Association News | 0 comments
This is the link from the Italian Horse Protection Facebook page.
https://www.facebook.com/notes/ihp-italian-horse-protection-association/parma-cavalli-tenuti-in-pessime-condizioni-intervento-di-ihp-e-striscia-la-notiz/530579993636934 – the rough translation is below.
It has to be the classic situation where ignorance in the end becomes ill treatment: there is no other explanation as to...
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Posted by on Oct 29, 2012 in Association News | 0 comments
Yvelines is situated on the Western boundary of the Parisien region Ile -de-France. There have been three new outbreaks of EHV-1. The pin marks the centre of Yveslines, not the outbreak location.
The copy on this page is from the AHT link below.
http://www.aht.org.uk/icc/Interim_Report16_october12.html
Interim Report – October 2012 #16 (26.10.12)
France
Equine Herpes Virus-1 (EHV-1) –...
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