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26 starving horses seized from Skagit County farm

Twenty-six sickly horses seized from a Mt. Vernon pasture this month are being nursed back to health in Arlington. Owners of the horses filed a request to get the animals back on Thursday. The request comes one day before a … Continue reading

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Horses can recognise their owners from their voices and create a mental picture of familiar humans

In the first experiment involving 32 horses, subjects turned to look more quickly, for longer and more often at their owner when they heard their voice over a loudspeaker than when they heard a stranger’s. Animal psychologist Dr Leanne Proops … Continue reading

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Wild horses’ fate in peril

COROLLA, N.C. Come summer, the beaches of this barrier island will be choked with cars and sunbathers, but in the offseason the land is left to wild horses. Smallish, tending toward chestnut and black, they wander past deserted vacation rentals … Continue reading

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