Posted by on Dec 11, 2009 in Association News, Rescues | 0 comments
Our 2 beautiful Trotters have now been with us for 2 weeks, and what a change we have seen in them already. Today they came in for a groom (which they adore!) a trim up and probably their first ever taste of being rugged up. The weather is set to turn bitterly cold this next week and as we are trying to keep weight on the girls we thought they’d benefit from being rugged up. They are moving...
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Posted by on Dec 11, 2009 in General News | 0 comments
An injured donkey abandoned near to the Dead Sea in Jordan has been rescued by British charity SPANA after a plea for help was made on its Facebook page. The donkey was spotted by a member of the public on November 25, who then contacted SPANA through it’s Facebook page.
SPANA’s headquarters in London immediately alerted its office in Amman, Jordan and a team headed off to look for...
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Posted by on Dec 9, 2009 in General News, Welfare | 2 comments
Equine ATYPICAL MYOPATHY (Myopathie Atypique in French) is a frequently fatal condition affecting grazing horses in autumn and/or spring. The clinical signs of this myopathy seem to appear after typical climatic conditions with global warming also being blamed for the increase in cases recently.
At the beginning of December there were 300 reported cases in Europe, over 80 of these being within...
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ERF were contacted by the DDSV in dept. 86 to intervene in a sad welfare case where the owner of 2 horses had been taken into hospital, terminally ill. The horses, 2 lovely French Trotter mares, had received very little care for many years. The evidence of this was shockingly revealed to us when a representative for ERF initially went to visit the horses last Monday. She found the mares wading...
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Posted by on Nov 23, 2009 in Association News | 0 comments
Big thanks go to Anna Thompson who recently raised approx 200€ for ERF riding her beautiful horse Mr Simba on a sponsored ride.
This isn’t the first time that Dordogne based Anna has raised funds for the association, and we would like to thank her immensely for her continued support to ERF.
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Posted by on Nov 19, 2009 in Association News | 0 comments
ERF rely heavily on public support and fundraisers to enable them to continue to act whenever they are needed in welfare cases and taking in unwanted equines. We realise that organising an event for the first time can be a rather daunting prospect, so we hope that this info will give you a starting block to work from.
Thorough planning and research is the key to organising a successful...
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