H.O.P.E.

Roger Norris runs a business, not a charity, but it’s hard to be unsympathetic when a desperate horse owner is on the phone.

Norris, who boards horses and runs trail rides, has taken in four horses in the past two months.

Recently a woman wanted to give him all five of her horses, including two thoroughbreds.

We were informed that the Sundre RCMP took the head of the filly to a local Vet. The Vet xrayed it and found no bullet, hence they could not conclude that she was shot. What then caused the mysterious round shaped hole in her head?

All horses were removed from Flying Ah Ranch near Jefferson by Jan. 15, Park County Sheriff’s Office personnel announced in a recent press release.

A total of 35 horses were voluntarily surrendered by ranch president Carol Martin after Park County Animal Control officers investigated allegations of animal neglect.

The number of abused and abandoned horses is growing in Sonoma County, and local officials say the poor economy is partly to blame.

Bob Garcia, Sonoma County’s veteran animal control officer, said he’s seen this trend before: When tough economic times hit, horses are neglected.

NORTHFIELD: The Ohio Harness Horsemen’s Association and Northfield Park race track have donated about $1,000 worth of money and supplies to help the Portage County Animal Protective League, following the discovery last week of dead and malnourished horses at a farm in Brimfield Township.

An aging and decrepit white horse found abandoned in a pasture south of town this past weekend has triggered a criminal investigation seeking its owner or owners, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals of Monterey County said Wednesday.

AN ANIMAL-LOVING nine-year-old held a solitary protest outside the farm where 32 horses were found dead.

Katy Roberts was so upset by the gruesome discovery at Spindles Farm Heath, Chalk Lane, Hyde Heath that she stood outside with a sign reading "This Is Hell Farm".

MICONAPY, Fla. – The Arabian horses grazing outside Holly Perea’s window were once worth tens of thousands of dollars. Then the horse market crashed, and before long those 19 horses came to the attention of Morgan Silver, founder of a Florida equine-rescue association.

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Lawton Stephens County Deputies found some severely malnourished horses on property just off of Old Highway 7 in Stephens County.  Stephens County Sheriff, veterinarians and the Stephens County Humane Society found two dead horses and six others that appeared to be neglected and severely emaciated.  It appears that whoever once lived on the property abandoned the animals and left them

ORIOLE - A criminal investigation into possible animal neglect and cruelty is under way after four allegedly malnourished horses were found and later removed Wednesday from property along Owen Lane near Oriole.

A fifth horse had already died, a county sheriff’s deputy said, and was buried.