The Bureau of Land Management is once again callously planning to permanently sterilize wild horse mares using a gruesome procedure so deadly and inhumane that many veterinarians refuse to perform it. Don’t let the BLM rip out the ovaries of wild mares! The proposed surgery, called ovariectomy via colpotomy, is controversial even for domestic mares…
The wild horses and burros of the American West, symbols of American freedoms and values we share and hold dear, are under threat of losing the federal protections that keep them alive. Protections defined by the Wild and Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act are at tremendous risk since the Act was unanimously passed by Congress…
Your action is urgently needed to prevent the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) plans to conduct cruel and unethical sterilization experiments on wild horses this spring, including painful and life-threatening surgeries on pregnant mares and young fillies in non-sterile environments. The timing is critical. BLM will publish its Decision Record and Finding of No Significant…
The existence of wild horses in the US is in jeopardy. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is at it again, continuing to support the interests of ranchers, and its latest plans involve rounding up horses in Wyoming’s Checkerboard lands. The 1971 Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act requires that the BLM remove wild horses…
Last October, a report surfaced which shows that a Colorado rancher and livestock hauler purchased 1,794 wild horses and willingly and illegally sold each of these magnificent wild animals to suffer a brutal death at slaughterhouses in Mexico. The rancher, Tom Davis, bought the horses through the Wild Horse and Burro Program, administered by the…
Annual Melbourne Cup Brings Another Devastating Outcome Another year has come and gone again in Australia, and with it, the passing of another November. For Australians, it’s the time to get dressed up in your classiest clothes, take a day off work to meet up with friends or colleagues, and bet on horses… many of…
Among the many calls that In Defense of Animals’ Justice for Animals Coalition receives are those requesting aid for stray and abandoned animals. While these cases are often not direct cruelty cases, they can sometimes turn into such a case fairly quickly. Most communities in the area of Mississippi where we are located have no…
The wild horses of Water Canyon in Nevada need your help! Please stand up for them and make your voice heard by commenting before the looming June 15 deadline regarding the wild horses in the Water Canyon area of the Antelope Herb Management Area (HMA) of Nevada. Their lives are at stake! America’s wild horses…
With the help of our dedicated supporters, In Defense of Animals is able to be the ‘boots on the ground’ organization in cases of neglect and abuse throughout Mississippi. Your support has literally meant the difference between life and death for horses and donkeys in Mississippi. For Dodger the donkey, the road ahead is now…
Near the end of February, we told you about the rescue of a herd of seventeen starving horses by IDA’s Hope Animal Sanctuary (HAS) in Mississippi. Several days after their rescue, two additional starving horses were found in an adjacent pasture. It was not immediately clear if these were animals from the same cruelty case…
