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A Plea For Rodeo Horses being Mistreated I am asking animal lovers everywhere to please spare ten minutes to send an email or write to Mayor Ron Clarke MBE to urge him to please discontinue Gold Coast Council Australia Day Rodeo in 2012 on the grounds of cruelty to horses. Here is a photo I took [...]
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LightRider Bitless Bridles Endorsed by I am very pleased to announce that after almost a year of trialling the LightRider Bitless Bridle and Bitless Noseband, the executive of Horse Safety Australia have given their endorsement. ”it is something the executive were happy to endorse, especially considering the quality of the materials in your products.” Horse Safety [...]
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Tragic accidents are not new to jumps racing, but seven unfortunate spectators at the Warrnambool Grand Annual Steeple on May 5th discovered, people are not safe either. Jumps racing has no place in a society that calls itself civilised. This distressing incident again highlights the dangers that jumps racing poses to horses, jockeys and even [...]
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CSIRO scientists have shown that a new experimental vaccine helps to protect horses against the deadly Hendra virus. Dr Deborah Middleton from CSIRO’s Australian Animal Health Laboratory (AAHL) announced the successful progress to develop the vaccine at the Australian Veterinary Association conference in Adelaide. “Our trials so far have shown that the vaccine prevents the [...]
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Wild Weather We all feel for those who have suffered as a result of Cyclone Yasi in far north Queensland, and just hope that their animals, especially the horses who would have been out in the middle of the fury, survived. Some reports have indicated that despite devastation all around them and fences down, their [...]
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Queensland Flood Appeal With all natural disasters, where there is suffering and loss of human life, there are many animals that have died, been injured or separated from their loved ones. The flooding in Queensland has no doubt caused a lot of stress for the horses and their owners, some of whom have lost everything. [...]
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