According to research published in 2005, 63 percent of horses involved in competition sports, ranging from dressage to racing, suffered from colonic ulceration. The research was conducted by Frank Pellegrini, DVM. The study found that 54 percent of performance horses suffered from both gastric and colonic ulcers and that 97 percent of performance horses had […]
Horse Breeds: Irish Draught Horse Arabian Horse Mustang Spanish Horse Fresian Horse Morgan Horse Percheron Horse Belgian Horse Shetland Pony Paint Horse Welcome to the Horses page! Besides being highly intelligent, horses are loving, loyal pets. Keep in mind they are very large pets that need lots of room. They require proper housing, an area […]
Wayne Pacelle, President and CEO of the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), speaks out against using long-time abusive practices against animals. The excuse for using these practices is that it is an expression of that peoples’ culture. Examples of these cultural excuses are the killing of bulls for entertainment in Spain, cockfighting, falsified […]
