Hendra virus has been confirmed in a dog on an infected property near Macksville, New South Wales (NSW), Australia. “This follows the death of a horse from the virus on the same property on July 4, 2013,” NSW Chief Veterinary Officer Ian Roth said. “Samples from the dog were sent to the Department of Primary Industries’ Elizabeth […]

According to local Waukesha County news station, WISN, a group of horses and riders out on a trail ride in the Kettle Moraine State Forest in Eagle, Wisconsin were hit by lightning yesterday. Click here to read more.

Florida Department of Health Officials have received reports of more than a dozen Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) cases among horses so far this year, according to the agency’s weekly arbovirus surveillance reports. In total, 16 Florida horses have tested positive for the virus since the first case confirmation in early January in Levy County; all […]

Approximately 1,800 wild horses are in a potentially dangerous situation at a facility operated by the Bureau of Land Management near Reno, Nev., where temperatures have been reaching record highs exceeding 100 degrees this month. There is no shelter for the horses at the Palomino Valley National Adoption Center, despite the fact that BLM requires […]

According to the Amarillo Globe-News, the cloning antitrust case involving AQHA began yesterday in Amarillo, Texas with plaintiffs Jason Abraham and Gregg Veneklasen seeking more than $6 million in damages. Click here to read more.

“I was giving oxygen to one of the horses via an oxygen mask that’s in my own personal kit,” Perciful says. “Then, the vets arrived and gave fluids and medication. I was pretty concerned because there were blisters on this one horse’s nose, which meant that it got pretty hot.”

According to local station KIROTV 22 horses were rescued from a barn fire in Auburn, WA over the weekend. The fire broke out at a property on Green Valley Road early Saturday morning. Click here to read more.

A lawsuit challenging American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA) rules preventing cloned horses from being registered is headed to court this week. Some owners have used the cloning process—which was first performed on horses in 2003—to preserve their animals’ bloodlines, particularly those of high-performance equines. In response to cloning as a way to preserve bloodlines, some […]