P&A News @ October 23, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Jason Harschbarger of Pullman, West Virginia is accustomed to farm animal noises. However, when he heard Gracie’s whinnying, he was forced to investigate.
Upon his arrival at his neighbor’s field, he found the cause of the filly’s distress. The horse had managed to wedge her head into a hole in a tree and could not escape.
Harschbarger [...]
P&A News @ October 18, 2008 # No Comment Yet
How irritating it must be to have a drunk stumble into your swimming pool in the middle of the night and then need rescuing. When the drunk is a 12-year-old horse, things get interesting.
The pony, named “Fat Boy”, escaped from his stable in Newquay, Cornwall, England.
The roaming pony found apples in a nearby yard and [...]
P&A News @ October 7, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Since Peggy the horse can’t take her shoes off before she enters a recently renovated pub, she will have to stay outside with them.
The Daily Telegraph reports that Peter Dolan, a retired oil rigger, was a regular at O’Malleys Pub in Jarrow, SouthTyneside, England. One day, his twelve-year-old horse Peggy, followed him in and has [...]
P&A News @ September 20, 2008 # No Comment Yet
No one wants to deal with horse manure in the street. But, if you are a horse, do you want to be wearing a diaper?
Officials in the British town of Blackpool are forcing area carriage horses to wear such an accessory. Failure to do so will restrict the ability to obtain an operator’s license, according to The [...]
P&A News @ August 7, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Ernie out for a run
Drivers on I-95 saw an unusual site on Monday, August 4, a horse at full gallop on the interstate.
Ernie, a 5-year-old horse had escaped from an Ipswich, MA farm where he is boarded. He leapt a 6-foot fence just before 4:00 PM and found his way to I-95 at Exit 53.
Witnesses [...]
P&A News @ July 27, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Los Gatos resident Judy Ventimiglia and Magic.
(George Sakkestad/Los Gatos Weekly-Times)
Horses may never replace dogs as service animals. However, a special place is being made amongst their ranks.
Magic is a 29-inch, 110-pound miniature horse out to make his mark. The yearling has been accepted by the Service Animal Registry of America and By Furry Friends.
Magic is [...]
P&A News @ June 10, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Molly the poney and Erica the pig… a love story.
5/ 6/2008
IT’S the old, old story … pig meets horse, pig moves in with horse, pig falls in love with horse.
And it’s just the latest strange twist in the life of Erica the Vietnamese pot belly who was picked up wandering on the streets of Salford.
Erica [...]
P&A News @ June 10, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Group rescues, trains and finds homes for standardbreds in need
BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer
A man walking along the ocean saw a person off in the distance going back and forth between the surf ’s edge and the beach. As he approached the person, he could see hundreds of starfish stranded on the sand as [...]
P&A News @ June 1, 2008 # No Comment Yet
June 1, 2008, 12:37 pm
A New Approach to Horse Adoption
By
Gina Rarick
A few posts back, I mentioned a relatively new program in France that takes charge of racehorses when their careers are over. That mention drew lots of interest and questions, so here are the details of how it works.
Owners or trainers who have horses [...]
P&A News @ June 1, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Spooked Steed Lends Celebrations Some Real Spark
The Press | Monday, 02 June 2008
STACY SQUIRES/The Press
REAL BOLTER: Cortezz enjoys his victory lap at AMI Stadium on Saturday night. The horse, one of the Crusaders’ promotional steeds ridden by “knights” before the match, broke from its tether behind the Crusaders’ mock castle when fireworks were lit at [...]