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Take a look at pictures and people at our booth in April at the Ohio Equine Affaire. The event gives Stolen Horse International a chance to reach out to many who do not know we are here and to meet many victims and volunteers who do.

ORLANDO, Florida, by Ellen Rosenberg--Taryn Campana, who lives near Orlando, has a soft spot for horses in need. If she has room, she takes in horses who need help, one at a time, rehabs them, and then finds them a permanent home. She had one open space a year and a half ago,
when Clayton, her teenage son, spotted a picture of Leo.

  

"We just fell in love with him," Taryn recalled. Leo was eight or nine years old, a 16.2hh gray Thoroughbred jumper. He was not in good shape."He had been kept in a very wet pasture, so his feet had basically rotted," Taryn said. "He was also underweight, which is typical of horses in need. He also had a lot of issues under the saddle. He was a puppy dog to handle and work around, but try to ride him -- he'd buck and rear. He was very defensive, a real problem child. Obviously, something had happened to him."

  

So Leo came to stay. Taryn had a farrier work on his feet, but that was going to take a long time to fix -- hooves grow slowly. Leo gained weight and started learning to trust people on his back. A little. Then things got complicated. Real the full story on how Leo's owner was duped...

  

  

NC family reunited with horse lost in storm  

WILLOW SPRING, North Carolina(www.wral.com) 4/22/2011--WRAL News viewers helped reunite a 5-year-old Willow Springs girl six days after her horse had gone missing when storms rampaged across North Carolina a week ago. High winds blew down the fences around the pasture where Buddy was turned out, letting him escape. More.

  

GARY, Indiana (Newscore) 4/26/2011--Two bodies found under a 15-foot-high pile of manure at a horse farm at the weekend have been identified as men, but police don't know who they are. Gary Detective Cpl. Mike Barnes said the bodies found Sunday morning belonged to white or Hispanic men, but it was not possible to tell how old the men were because the bodies had decomposed too much.   Story.

MARION COUNTY, Oregon (www.statesmanjournal.com) 5/2/2011--Mischecho, a 23-year-old pure-bred Arabian mare was shot and killed Monday evening as it was grazing near Silverton. Multiple residents in the 17000 block of the South Abiqua Road said they heard a single rifle shot about 6:05p.m. Mischencho was discovered in the field shot through the left shoulder.

Saddles stolen from NM horse trainer  

SOUTH VALLEY, New Mexico (www.kobt.com) 4/22/2011--A South Valley horse trainer's business is suddenly going nowhere thanks to a thief who stole his saddles and tack from Andy DeArment's makeshift barn. More details.

  

Two Alabama residents indicted for horse theft  

HAMILTON, Georgia (www.ledger-enquirer.com) 4/23/2011--A grand jury has indicted, on six felony counts each, two north Alabama residents charged last summer with stealing horses in the middle of the night from an equine shelter in Harris County. Authorities said Sarah Hope Mitchell, 21, and Mark Anthony Judd, 19, of Madison, Alabama, stole a 10-year-old buckskin and a 2-year old miniature stallion from the Begin Again Farms Equine Shelter. Full story.

  

Chemug County, New York (Netposse Alert) 4/22/2011--

  

  

  

  

LINCOLN CENTER, New York, 4/15/2011

 

WAR HORSE has been nominated for 5 Tony Awards®
including Best Play! In addition, Adrian Kohler and Basil Jones will be presented with a Special Tony Award for Handspring Puppet Company's Artistic Achievement.

 

Tune in to CBS on Sunday, June 12 at 8/7c to watch the live ceremony!

 

You will hardly believe the magic brought to life by these incredibly talented horse puppeteers!

 

Review.   Amazing video.

Police horse dies on duty at show in Australia 

PERTH, Australia (news.com.au) 4/16/2011--A 16-year-old Clydesdale police horse, called Hercules, died tragically in an apparent electrical accident at an agricultural show in Perth Hills. Frantic officers attempted heart massage to revive the much-beloved horse...more on this heartbreaking story.

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Fort Collins, Colorado: Unlawful for a male rider to wink at a female rider with whom he is acquainted.

Basalt, Nevada: Men are prohibited from eating onions between 7am-7pm while out riding.

Bicknell, Indiana: Unlawful for a man to leave his new bride alone and go riding with his pals on his wedding day.

Budds Creek, Maryland: Illegal for a horse to sleep in a bathtub  unless the rider is also sleeping with the horse.

Pine Ridge, South Dakota: Horses are banned from neighing between midnight and 6am near a residence inhabited by human beings.

  

  

  

 

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