Day: August 20, 2011

One Piggy Bank, One Little Girl, One Huge Heart

Ingredients for a new life for a deserving horse Sassy, a black no color paint mare spent the majority of life as a broodmare and subsequently, through no fault of her own, this sweet mare ended up at an auction with no one bidding on her. The next place for Sassy would have been the killbuyer. At the auction in northern Florida on a Saturday in November amongst the people was another group outside of random killbuyers, waiting for the horses that the crowd did not seem to want, Pure Thoughts Inc. Horse Rescue and horses like

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Texas agriculture losses at record $5.2B as drought hits crops, livestock

The blistering drought in Texas has caused an estimated $5.2 billion in crop and livestock losses this agricultural season, a record figure that could still rise, state officials said Wednesday.

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Rabies confirmed in a horse from Eddy County N.M.

New Mexico Department of Health is warning pet and livestock owners in Eddy County and the surrounding area to make sure their dogs, cats, horses and other valuable livestock are vaccinated against rabies after an unvaccinated horse near Artesia tested positive for the disease.

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N.Y. child and dog die of Eastern equine encephalitis

People in Oswego County are now officially under a public health threat, following the death of a child, and now a dog, from Eastern Equine Encephalitis, better known as EEE.

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