National Geographic Feature on Mustang Roundups

This is the latest DawnWatch Alert about the new NatGeo story on mustangs and how cattle ranchers want all the land for themselves. The February issue of National Geographic Magazine has an article, by Alexandra Fuller, about the government’s round up of Mustangs on behalf of cattle ranchers, headed, “Spirit of the Shrinking West: Mustangs.” [...]

Horse Slaughter Bill Back in Congress – Take Action

It’s a busy day today so please scroll down for an action alert from Farm Sanctuary on the Army’s plans to use live animals as target practice, and please visit the Tipping Point blog for an action alert on endangered Cook Inlet Beluga whales. Seems Sarah Palin is bound and determined to make them extinct [...]

DawnWatch: Animal Rights Year-End Round Up

Karen Dawn puts it all together and ties it with a nice bow. Read, enjoy, get active. It is Christmas, which means before I go have a beautiful veggie meal with my loved ones and then retire for a week, I get to send out my round up of the major animal stories in the [...]

KHOU Report: Horse Slaughter Horrors Continue

A lot of people visit my blog because they’re searching for information on the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act. Here’s an update from DawnWatch Alert: Thanks to the fabulous friend to the animals, KHOU’s reporter Brad Woodard, the ongoing horror of horse slaughter is not being forgotten by the media. When I saw Woodard’s most [...]

Horse Slaughter Bill Up for Committee Vote – Call TODAY!

This alert from the Animal Welfare Institute arrived last night: AWI has learned that the Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act (H.R. 6598) will be voted on by the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, September 10th. The bill, which was introduced in July by Judiciary Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) and Representative Dan Burton (R-IN), will criminalize [...]

Government to Slaughter Wild Horses

Once again, the U.S. government is gearing up to slaughter wild horses because they’re taking up land needed for cattle so we can slaughter even more animals. If the American public could get off their fat asses and stop eating factory-farmed fast food, perhaps then we could have some balance in our wild lands. I [...]

Support the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act

Here’s another very important DawnWatch alert about a subject I’ve posted about many times – horse slaughter. Please Please contact your federal legislators and urge them to support the act. There’s information about the act in the alert. This is horrible to watch in places, especially listening to the men who callously send horses to [...]

DawnWatch: Slaughter of race horses on HBO as horse racing makes news

The Preakness, another Triple Crown horse race, is today. I have no idea when because I don’t watch horse racing because I firmly believe it is abusive and WRONG. Let’s hope we don’t have a repeat of the Eight Belles tragedy today. The necropsy results were released yesterday, claiming that “”No pathology was found to [...]

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