At the Liberty Sanctuary in Heber City, founder Debra West and volunteers work at a different pace — the horses' pace.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. LOVELAND, Colo. (KDVR) — Each year, tens of thousands of horses are shipped across the border to Canada or Mexico for slaughter, ...

In as little as a month, horse slaughterhouses can re-open. According to the Associated Press, a ban was lifted by Congress on Nov. 18, when President Barack Obama signed a bill that will enable the U ...

Equine Advocates has become a sanctuary for horses in distress. Founded in 1996 by Susan Wagner, this nonprofit organization in Chatham, New York, is dedicated to rescuing equines from slaughter, ...

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These old horses on a ranch near Rapid City are among about 60,000 to 90,000 horses each year nationally that get too old to be of any use. In the past, many of them would be sent to slaughterhouses, ...

The controversy over the commercial slaughter of horses in the United States resumed a little more than a week ago with a report from the Government Accountability Office that raised questions about ...

STAFFORDSVILLE, Ky. — Kentucky, the horse capital of the world, famous for its sleek thoroughbreds, is being overrun with thousands of horses no one wants — some of them perfectly healthy, but many of ...