Hiya, FsOB! It is a bright, but bitterly cold morning which has dawned here on the banks of the Thames. Some of our windows have hard frost on them (those fern patterns always make me think of the film "Dr. Zhivago").

Happy Thursday, everyone!

#### To April in AL: My sympathies to you because of the passing of your dog, April. ####

its 4 degrees here in Lexington. Yahoo! NOT

Lynda!!!!! Welcome back. It's been a long time since you've posted.

Stardom Bound, what a perfect name for a gorgeous gray horse. Go, girl, and be safe.

Happy Thursday FOBs,

Hay Lynda!!!! Glad to see you here.

It's 31 degrees here in this part of the sunshine state. I wonder how many plants I'm going to lose. We were at a birthday dinner and it was too late to cover them when we got home last night. This is the coldest winter we've had since moving here.

April - so sorry for your loss.

Have a great day everyone!!

Janice
A forever devoted to Kaiser FOB

###We're getting a storm system, rain promised for the next couple of days, and the wind is blowing. Makes for interesting skies and we do need the moisture so I guess we can't complain.

It's just that I have a riding lesson Sunday and haven't had much chance to practice.

Oh well.

###Stardom Bound. LOVE her name. Won't watch the race but will be interested to see how she does ;o)

###Thank you Alex.

###Prayers to those in need.

Good morning Barbaro, miss you & luv you good morning to all, have a blessed day, and remember to pray for all the work that needs done.

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Morning, ABR Famblee...:)

April, I am also very sorry for your loss...

Equine Heaven's featured "Kindred Spirit" today, is *PIPER*, Famblee...what a little darling!! Makes my hide even more 'chapped', seeing her sweet face there...:(

I received the following, years ago...and somehow lost it...and just recently someone sent it along to my 'inbox'...I wanna share with you, Famblee:) I hope it will copy properly here:

DOGS IN HEAVEN

A man and his dog were walking along a road The man was enjoying the scenery, when it suddenly occurred to him that he was dead. He remembered dying, and that the dog walking beside him had been dead for years. He wondered where the road was leading them.

After a while, they came to a high, white stone wall along one side of the road. It looked like fine marble. At the top of a long hill, it was broken by a tall arch that glowed in the sunlight.

When he was standing before it he saw a magnificent gate in the arch that looked like mother-of-pearl, and the street that led to the gate looked like pure gold. He and the dog walked toward the gate, and as he got
closer, he saw a man at a desk to one side.

When he was close enough, he called out, 'Excuse me, where are we?' 'This is Heaven, sir,' the man answered. Wow! Would you happen to have some water?' the man asked. 'Of course, sir. Come right in, and I'll have some ice water brought right up.' The man gestured, and the gate began to open. 'Can my friend,' gesturing toward his dog, 'come in, too?' the traveler asked. 'I'm sorry, sir, but we don't accept pets.' The man thought a moment and then turned back toward the road and continued the way he had been going with his dog.

After another long walk, and at the top of another long hill, he came to a dirt road leading through a farm gate that looked as if it had never been closed. There was no fence.

As he approached the gate, he saw a man inside, leaning against a tree and reading a book. 'Excuse me!' he called to the man. 'Do you have any water?' 'Yeah, sure, there's a pump over there, come on in.'
'How about my friend here?' the traveler gestured to the dog. 'There should be a bowl by the pump.'

They went through the gate, and sure enough, there was an old-fashioned hand pump with a bowl beside it. The traveler filled the water bowl and took a long drink himself, then he gave some to the dog. When they were full, he and the dog walked back toward the man who was standing by the tree. 'What do you call this place?' the traveler asked. 'This is Heaven,' he answered. 'Well, that's confusing,' the traveler said. 'The man down the road said that was Heaven, too.' 'Oh, you mean the place with the gold street and pearly gates? Nope. That's hell.' 'Doesn't it make you mad for them to use your name like that?' 'No, we're just happy that they screen out the folks who would leave their best friends behind.'

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Hope everyone has a great/grand/wonderful day today...KY peeps!! I sure hope your weather and those 'modern comforts' will 1)settle down and 2)restore and STAY restored!!

Lynne-Barbaro's Forever Friend in CA

IT WAS - 3 DEGREE HERE IN PA.. BUT A WARM UP THIS WEEK END AND INTO NEXT WEEK WOPPING 47 DEGREES COMING OUR WAY,

Just heard from Fran, who is home now. Her inbox was full! She is not spending a lot of time at the computer, as her leg is hurting, but she will check in here soon.

Please Click for the Animals and sign up for daily reminders. No, I'm not your daily reminder! LOL

Joe at TB Friends

sorry I missed yesterday, took a day off. Sharing Harriette Brillianthawk's emails from yesterday and today.

Jan 4 Cherokee Devotional

It is a blessing that we need each other. Communication brings vitality and energy and lovely sharing. This does not mean we say the same things or eat the same food and think the same thoughts. It means we share space without rancor and envy. It means we are happy to see each other in good health and doing well.

A Cherokee grandmother advises, "Celebrate being an individual. It is a good time to be one's own best friend----and it is time to unfold one's spirit to draw in someone less secure."

I fear no man, and I depend only upon the Great Spirit.

Adario
Huron, 1600's

Feb 5 Cherokee Devotional

What sort of person are we--and what discipline do we obey? Have we slipped the responsibility of inner law and must we depend on outer man-made rules to stay in line?

Everyone of us needs a Prompter that lives in the heart and rules the affairs with love and peace and stability. A free flowing spirit is needed to tell us where the limits are--and what things are right and which will damage and destroy.

Control for our minds and bodies is in our power, and with it peace and contentment. When these two things begin to fade, we know we have begun to lean on others to tell us who we are and what we can do.

You depend upon an infinity of persons whose places have raised them above you. Is it true or not?

Kondiaronk
Huron Chief

YIPPEE - SIX more new cosponsors for HR 503. And from 6 different States, too. (info from thomas.gov this morning, 2/5/09)

Rep Capps, Lois [CA-23] - 2/4/2009
Rep Ryan, Tim [OH-17] - 2/4/2009
Rep Shea-Porter, Carol [NH-1] - 2/4/2009
Rep Langevin, James R. [RI-2] - 2/4/2009
Rep Diaz-Balart, Mario [FL-25] - 2/4/2009
Rep Baird, Brian [WA-3] - 2/4/2009

and here's the list of all 84 cosponsors, alphabetically.

Rep Ackerman, Gary L. [NY-5] - 1/14/2009
Rep Baird, Brian [WA-3] - 2/4/2009
Rep Bartlett, Roscoe G. [MD-6] - 1/26/2009
Rep Berkley, Shelley [NV-1] - 1/14/2009
Rep Berman, Howard L. [CA-28] - 1/27/2009
Rep Bilbray, Brian P. [CA-50] - 1/14/2009
Rep Bilirakis, Gus M. [FL-9] - 1/28/2009
Rep Bishop, Timothy H. [NY-1] - 1/26/2009
Rep Bono Mack, Mary [CA-45] - 1/14/2009
Rep Bordallo, Madeleine Z. [GU] - 1/14/2009
Rep Brown, Henry E., Jr. [SC-1] - 1/14/2009
Rep Burton, Dan [IN-5] - 1/14/2009
Rep Capps, Lois [CA-23] - 2/4/2009
Rep Capuano, Michael E. [MA-8] - 1/14/2009
Rep Castle, Michael N. [DE] - 1/14/2009
Rep Cohen, Steve [TN-9] - 1/14/2009
Rep Courtney, Joe [CT-2] - 1/26/2009
Rep Cummings, Elijah E. [MD-7] - 1/14/2009
Rep DeFazio, Peter A. [OR-4] - 1/14/2009
Rep Delahunt, William D. [MA-10] - 1/14/2009
Rep DeLauro, Rosa L. [CT-3] - 1/14/2009
Rep Diaz-Balart, Mario [FL-25] - 2/4/2009
Rep Dicks, Norman D. [WA-6] - 1/27/2009
Rep Gallegly, Elton [CA-24] - 1/14/2009
Rep Gerlach, Jim [PA-6] - 1/14/2009
Rep Green, Al [TX-9] - 1/27/2009
Rep Grijalva, Raul M. [AZ-7] - 1/14/2009
Rep Gutierrez, Luis V. [IL-4] - 1/14/2009
Rep Hall, John J. [NY-19] - 1/14/2009
Rep Hinchey, Maurice D. [NY-22] - 1/14/2009
Rep Holt, Rush D. [NJ-12] - 1/28/2009
Rep Inglis, Bob [SC-4] - 1/14/2009
Rep Israel, Steve [NY-2] - 1/26/2009
Rep Jackson-Lee, Sheila [TX-18] - 1/14/2009
Rep Jones, Walter B., Jr. [NC-3] - 1/14/2009
Rep King, Peter T. [NY-3] - 1/14/2009
Rep Kirk, Mark Steven [IL-10] - 1/14/2009
Rep Klein, Ron [FL-22] - 1/14/2009
Rep Kucinich, Dennis J. [OH-10] - 1/14/2009
Rep Lance, Leonard [NJ-7] - 1/26/2009
Rep Langevin, James R. [RI-2] - 2/4/2009
Rep Levin, Sander M. [MI-12] - 1/26/2009
Rep Lewis, John [GA-5] - 1/14/2009
Rep Lipinski, Daniel [IL-3] - 1/26/2009
Rep LoBiondo, Frank A. [NJ-2] - 1/14/2009
Rep Lofgren, Zoe [CA-16] - 1/14/2009
Rep Lowey, Nita M. [NY-18] - 1/27/2009
Rep Maloney, Carolyn B. [NY-14] - 1/14/2009
Rep McCarthy, Carolyn [NY-4] - 1/14/2009
Rep McCotter, Thaddeus G. [MI-11] - 1/14/2009
Rep McGovern, James P. [MA-3] - 1/14/2009
Rep Miller, George [CA-7] - 1/14/2009
Rep Mitchell, Harry E. [AZ-5] - 1/14/2009
Rep Moore, Gwen [WI-4] - 1/14/2009
Rep Moran, James P. [VA-8] - 1/14/2009
Rep Murphy, Patrick J. [PA-8] - 1/14/2009
Rep Murtha, John P. [PA-12] - 1/26/2009
Rep Myrick, Sue Wilkins [NC-9] - 1/26/2009
Rep Nadler, Jerrold [NY-8] - 1/14/2009
Rep Payne, Donald M. [NJ-10] - 1/14/2009
Rep Peters, Gary C. [MI-9] - 1/27/2009
Rep Platts, Todd Russell [PA-19] - 1/14/2009
Rep Rahall, Nick J., II [WV-3] - 1/14/2009
Rep Rangel, Charles B. [NY-15] - 1/14/2009
Rep Rooney, Thomas J. [FL-16] - 1/27/2009
Rep Rothman, Steven R. [NJ-9] - 1/14/2009
Rep Ruppersberger, C. A. Dutch [MD-2] - 1/14/2009 Rep Ryan, Tim [OH-17] - 2/4/2009
Rep Schakowsky, Janice D. [IL-9] - 1/14/2009
Rep Scott, Robert C. "Bobby" [VA-3] - 1/14/2009
Rep Serrano, Jose E. [NY-16] - 1/14/2009
Rep Shea-Porter, Carol [NH-1] - 2/4/2009
Rep Sherman, Brad [CA-27] - 1/14/2009
Rep Smith, Christopher H. [NJ-4] - 1/14/2009
Rep Sutton, Betty [OH-13] - 1/14/2009
Rep Van Hollen, Chris [MD-8] - 1/14/2009
Rep Wasserman Schultz, Debbie [FL-20] - 1/14/2009 Rep Watson, Diane E. [CA-33] - 1/14/2009
Rep Weiner, Anthony D. [NY-9] - 1/26/2009
Rep Wexler, Robert [FL-19] - 1/14/2009
Rep Whitfield, Ed [KY-1] - 1/14/2009
Rep Woolsey, Lynn C. [CA-6] - 1/14/2009
Rep Wu, David [OR-1] - 1/14/2009
Rep Young, C.W. Bill [FL-10] - 1/14/2009

If your Rep is on this list, great - please keep calling those on our target list (cs's of HR 6598 last time who haven't signed on to HR 503 yet). That list is available via the link Alex posted up top ("keep calling") and also at the DB in the AntiSlaughter US folder, Strategy for Week of Feb. 2.

Love to Barbaro Thanks Alex

Off Topic, but definitely funny, and true:

How the Stimulus Payments works.

"This year, taxpayers will receive an Economic Stimulus Payment. This is a very exciting new program that I will explain using the Q and A format:

Q. What is an Economic Stimulus Payment?
A. It is money that the federal government will send to taxpayers.

Q. Where will the government get this money?
A. From taxpayers.

Q. So the government is giving me back my own money?
A. Only a smidgen.

Q. What is the purpose of this payment?
A. The plan is that you will use the money to purchase a high-definition TV set, thus stimulating the economy.

Q. But isn't that stimulating the economy of China?
A. Shut up.

Below is some helpful advice on how to best help the US economy by spending your stimulus check wisely:

If you spend that money at Wal-Mart, all the money will go to China.
If you spend it on gasoline it will go to the Arabs.
If you purchase a computer it will go to India.
If you purchase fruit and vegetables it will go to Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala (unless you buy organic).
If you buy a car it will go to Japan.
If you purchase useless crap it will go to Taiwan.

And none of it will help the American economy.

We need to keep that money here in America. You can keep the money in America by spending it at yard sales, going to a baseball game, or spend it on prostitutes, beer and wine (domestic ONLY), or tattoos, since those are the only businesses still in the US.

Just a thought but if horses could be legally designated as "companion animals" (which they usually are) instead of "farm animals" wouldn't it be easier to stop horse slaughter. Sometimes language can make a difference and bring down a different law enforcement reaction. You certainly could not ship dogs to slaughter in Mexico and Canada but they get away with murdering horses.

WONDERFUL MEDIA COVERAGE

sharing email from John Holland - please cross-post everywhere -

Subject: Live web radio program on horse slaughter this Saturday

Hi Folks,

Paula Bacon (former Mayor of Kaufman, TX), Laura Allen (Animal Law Coalition), and I will be guests on this first program on horse slaughter. Please visit the program's resource page and pass the link along to everyone you know who might be interested.

http://wflendangeredstreamlive.org.savingamericashorses.html

This is a wonderful venue for getting the word out and I intend to recommend a lot of people in the movement be considered as guests for future programs on other aspects of horse welfare.

John

##### [thanks Lenny Hall for sending this to me]

http://forums.delphiforums.com/alexbrown/messages?msg=32960.1

DB thread re my above post (email from John Holland)

More info here re the guests, and a call-in number

crossposting from the DB -

LIVE FEED ON SATURDAY FEB. 7TH 3PM PST - (6PM Eastern Time) With John Holland (Senior Analyst for AAHS), Paula Bacon and Laura Allen!

Saving America's Horses on WFL Endangered Stream Live, Talk Radio for the Protection of Animals

The Hidden Cruelty of Horse Slaughter and the Fight for Federal Support to Make it Stop.

Host Katia Louise interviews an expert panel of guests on the continuing sordid practice of horse slaughter as currently sustained by the United States. Horses suffer unimaginable cruel treatment in the process of their transport out of the US to Mexico and Canada where they experience barbaric slaughter. Listeners will learn the truth about one of America's darkest secrets and how to take action to stop this cruel and rapidly growing business of exports through the support of current, yet disregarded bills lingering in Congress for the past 8 years.

Guests include Paula Bacon representing Americans Against Horse Slaughter and as former mayor of Kaufman TX, she helped to shut down the Dallas Crown, a US horse slaughter plant now operating in Mexico, among the worst malign abusers of cruelty in this brutal practice. Also joining us is the renown author on the issue of horse slaughter, John Holland; senior analyst for Americans Against Horse Slaughter. Holland has authored and coauthored studies on the relationship of horse slaughter to the rate of abuse and neglect in horses and has written dozens of articles on the subject of horse slaughter and its politics. Plus we have Animal Law Attorney, Laura Allen of the Animal Law Coalition who's been fiercely active in the support of getting legislature passed for the Prevention of the Equine Cruelty. These panelists are fighting to abolish horse slaughter and the export of horses for slaughter with support more stringent enforcement of laws to prevent abuse and neglect.

Call-in number: (646) 727- 2170. Calls will be accepted live during the show. The chat room at the show's WFL Endangered Stream Live Blog Talk Radio page will be open throughout the broadcast for simultaneous discussion and to help answer questions. Registered listeners may connect and talk straight from their computer from anywhere in the world. (learn more)

Listen live on Saturday, Feb 7th at 3pm (PST) at WFL Endangered Stream Live Blog Talk Radio.
Listen anytime on demand.

Links: [close up spaces]

http:// wflendangeredstreamlive.org/showlineup.html

http:// www. blogtalkradio.com/wflendangeredstreamlive/2009/02/07/Saving-Americas-Horses

Debra, WI - Americans Against Horse Slaughter

re designation of horses as companion animals (brought up by Eileen a little earlier)

The Illinois statutory designation of horses as companion animals along with dogs and cats, was indeed one of the factors the federal courts mentioned when upholding the Illinois antislaughter law that shut down Cavel.

Some other states are considering similar legislation. We were discussing it at the DB.

INDEED it would be much easier to promote a slaughter ban, if the critters are LEGALLY considered in the same category as dogs and cats.

*** For Jonna ***

Thursday, February 5th... Winning Stripes made good money as a race horse, and he came to us badly injured in 2007. We call him Honda. A difficult horse to handle. It takes 15 or more minutes to catch Honda in our fields. He fights with a dewormer. He fights with a farrier. Dances in crazy circles when he spots a vaccination coming at him. His wife is Nona, a once sweet mare, but Honda has taught her to run from us. Never has Honda been nominated for personality of the year award.

Allison is now 13, and Allison has been coming to our ranch since she was 8. Allison is horse savy, yet still we have a rule. She is not allowed near grouchy race horses unless Cathy and I are with her. Always in the background of my mind the sounds of a lifelite helicopter. Always in the background of my mind the sounds of our liability insurance man giggling as he rips up our policy.

Last summer, hot and yucky, with flies so thick neighbors quickly put out their For Sale signs. I was giving wormer to horses in our north field. As usual, Honda played catch me if you can. Nona gives up after a few minutes, but Honda is faster than a speeding train. And he likes to tease. Stopping to sigh, as if to say okay, you got me. I am only inches away and he takes off. In the background of my mind the sounds of Honda laughing.

Allison was watching from our yard. I think she too was laughing. My cell phone rings. Allison says this is Allison. I can see her standing next to our house. Allison says you want me to come catch Honda?

Why not? I was about to stroke out in hundred degree heat. I should have stayed in college, maybe had a career selling liability insurance. Just where did my life go wrong?

Allison takes the wormer, walks right up to Honda, puts on a halter, sticks the wormer down his throat, and then asks is it okay to bring him to the yard for a bath? He is all sweaty after fleeing from you Joe.

In our yard Honda has a nice cool bath. Several carrots. His feet scrubbed. Allison returns him to Nona, and I go inside to watch the same Law And Order rerun for the ninth time.

Not once since then has Honda been hard to catch. I send Allison. She holds Honda for the farrier. Allison has learned how to give vaccinations. From the north field Honda can spot Allison in our yard, and he starts walking towards the gate, hoping she will come for him.

If I go anywhere near Honda he runs like it is the 4th race at Hollywood Park.

Lifetime horses on our ranch, and they give love to others.

Below Top Left: This is Winning Stripes, we call him Honda, and he loves Allison.

Below Top Right: His registered name is Inoitwheniseeit, and we call him Noah. From the track Noah came with injuries, and his best friend forever is Casey in Sacramento. When Casey first saw Noah on this website, she had to come meet him. Noah is very sweet with Casey, while only tolerating the rest of the world.

Below Bottom Left: We rescued Kate from a ranch foreclosure last year, and she had foundered badly. A farrier from Sacramento began working with Kate, and you should see how much Kate loves this man. He even brings her lunch. Peanut butter and jelly sandwich, with an apple for dessert.

Below Bottom Right: In 2007 Wilma came to us from the feed lot in Fallon, Nevada. Wilma loves Jessica, a student at UC Davis. Jessica and Wilma have long conversations. For Christmas Jessica bought Wilma a warm green blanket. Jessica and her parents are looking for horse property, and if successful Wilma will have a new home.

A cold hard rain as we speak. Hot coffee is from Peets. Scrambled eggs come from chickens. Time to get soaked and bring breakfast to more than 120 horses. Enjoy your winter has returned Thursday, and be sure to hug your horses. Jefferson Airplane on the oldies station...

Joe

Sending All, All All My Love To Angel Robyn......
.......Angel Debbie LA...........And Angel Barb
AZ, Chunky And Punky And 153 And Petunia And
Angel Lynne.........You Are In My Heart So (8)
A Lot So..........

So, So So Special Prayers For Angel April And
Her Angel Famblee..........

Glowing Angels In The Sky........

In Halos........

Affirmed

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I love it....Barb...we need to keep everything here in America....INCLUDING OUR HORSES....stop horse slaughter and transportation across the borders...please.

and read the db....alot going on....please help save these babies...if you can...

thank you..

YOU ALL ROCK...FOBS!!!!

### If anyone wants to see the results of the rescue at Fairmount park last year. One of the mares we rescued with FOB money was Princess. She was pregnant. "The Pea" was born last week. Her photo is on the website. She is adorable.

www.mahrnfp.org I dont know how to blue ink, sorry. Jen

Here ya go, Jen:

Princess gives birth to Sweet Pea!

I'M GETTING A LOT OF HS NEWS!!! I AGREE WITH U CJ, LENNY KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK!! :>)

LOL LINDA P, -- I AM WITH YA, IT'S FREEEEEZING!!!

STARDOM BOUND IS MY FILLY FOR THIS YEAR, LAST YEAR IT WAS PROUD SPELL AND THAT WORKED OUT PRETTY WELL. I CERTAINLY DON'T SEE ANY CURLIN'S YET, I'LL KEEP WATCHING THOUGH!!

LOVE,
CHERYL

Happy Thursday, Family -

Condolences to April, who works against horse slaughter, on the loss of her beastie. We feel for you, and hope that lonely sadness is soon replaced by smiling memories.

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Eileen and CJaffe -
Language is INCREDIBLY important. How ideas are framed DOES impact the way we envision our world, and history teaches us this lesson over and over. We must articulate before we achieve, and the pending legislation in various states, designating horses as companion animals, has more significance, therefore, than is immediately apparent. This is Good Stuff.

Well, we are finally getting some rain, and are so grateful for it. Here's hoping it continues here in the Golden State, and that weather everywhere normalizes a bit from the odd extremes it has been pursuing.

Love and comfort to all in need, four-legged and two-legged, and have a Barbaro day, courage and kindness.

Barb- you are so awesome!

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Lynda Pellitteri - How COOL to see you here! How is my main squeeze, Doc? (I lost your email!)

MISSOURI PEOPLE PLEASE -

if you or anyone you know lives in the First District of Missouri, please spread the word to contact this Rep from our current target list, whose phone aide advised that she is "not obligated" to take input from non-constituents and then refused to listen to anything from me. [the date, is the date when he signed on as cosponsor to last year's HR 6598]

 Rep Clay, Wm. Lacy [MO-1] - 9/25/2008 Phone: 202-225-2406 Fax: 202-226-3717

Since he consponsored 6598 last time, his office has already done the research and decided to support a criminal-law ban on horse slaughter/transport/export. We need HIS CONSTITUENTS to call HR 503 to his attention and seek his cosponsorship for this bill.

Cj- send Susan E this info, that is the city of St louis, and she may be in his district or know someone in it. I am not in that district but I will pass it on to anyone who might be. he will probably sign on again with some encouragement. The city districts in MO are pretty anti-slaughter. Jen

Just in...HCR 1004 dealing with horse slaughter in Arkansas. It did not get a PASS but didn't get a DO NOT PASS either, from what I understand when it was propossed to pass the bill out of committee that motion was defeated 4 to 2 so it's still in committee. I believe they can try to get it out of committee 2 more times...which means this will probably come up again in the near future as they try again to pass it.

We'll stay on it and keep a very close eye on the agenda for when this comes up again....because it will. Thanks for everyones help...Tamme

NY State Legislation Group 2009-PLEASE JOIN


We are on a roll in NY State advocating the passage of "Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act" this legislative session. The New York State Calling Group is expanding and includes more people in the industry. We are inviting all NY State voters/constituents to join this group and add your voice for the horses.

If you are a NY State voter and have a few minutes a week or a month to help, please email equine.friends.ny@gmail.com for more info and to add your voice.
There's a longer message on the boards at # 33356.1



Thanks all and have a great day!

Blessings to that adorable Sweet Pea for a long and happy life, and also to the FOBs who were in a position to rescue mama Princess - great job, peeps!

Welcome
sweet pea !

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Eileen, Jean, and CJ,

We will never achieve the goal of having horses categorized as "companion animals." The farmers and ranchers get subsidized for "livestock." There are other pitfalls in trying to get them categorized as such. Zoning laws would have to be changed. For example, our property is listed as "agricultural." If horses were changed in this way, it could change our "agricultural" status. I remember a discussion about this about two years ago, here on this site, and I can't recall all the details, but it could end up being detrimental to horse owners. Just FYI, IMHO, etc.

Barbaro in Vanity Fair

I know with is old, but it is a great read!

Lynne, I had read the Dogs In Heaven but always enjoy it. In Katrina they would not take peoples animals and some refused to leave. Now they will take the rescued people and pets.

Gloomy tales boys food movies 8-]

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Barb Az -
You raise an interesting point. However, note CJ's observation that the designation had a positive effect in the IL anti-slaughter case. (How are Chunky and Punky? Ornery?)

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Jean, I certainly don't have all the answers! LOL It's obviously a "controversial" subject, NO? I think it would have some positive affects, as well as some negative ones. Most changes do.

Chunky and Punky are definitely ornery! I wouldn't want it any other way! That's what gives them their "charm!"

update on Elmer Bandit, who at age 37 broke the record for number of competitive trail ride miles.

http://www.thehorse.com/ViewArticle.aspx?ID=13542

Elmer Bandit's Winter Workouts Move Inside
by: Marsha Hayes
January 30 2009, Article # 13542

Winter weather has driven 37-year-old competitive trail horse Elmer Bandit and his owner and rider Mary Anna Wood inside for dressage lessons.
"Dressage contributes to keeping Elmer sound, limber, and supple," commented instructor Ann Bradley of Spring Hill, Kan., following a recent lesson. "Elmer is naturally very loose and supple and I believe that has contributed to his longevity.

"I'm very much into horses being calm and willing in their work. We have never, ever, had to prod Elmer in his work," reported Bradley. "He's definitely one of kind ... Elmer is a game-for-anything kind of guy."

Over the years she's taught Wood and Elmer, Bradley has observed the remarkable relationship they share.

"Mary Anna accepts Elmer exactly as he is. She makes Elmer feel appreciated," Bradley said. "I don't believe Elmer would have done as well with anyone else." [end of article]

There are some nice pics with the article. He sure doesn't look his age!

off to music - CU tomorrow!

this is be cool 8) 89 movies fkhvuz

Hi, FOB's!

You know, ever since I saw the remarkable photos last year that actually captured shots of Big Brown's dangling shoe after his disappointing trip in the Belmont Stakes, I've wondered about the history of the race horse in photographs, and how significant the horse has been as a photographic subject over the last century or so. Admittedly, I don't have a lot of time on my hands; nevertheless, I've been intrigued with researching the subject ever since, and one passing thought often leads to hours lost on the Internet in research, sometimes even requiring a trip to the local library to uncover the wonders stored there.

Here is one of the things I wondered about:

For a very long time it was accepted that, even in mid gallop, all four of a horse's hooves were never off the ground at the same time. So lightning-fast was the movement of hoof and leg in the extended gallop that it was simply impossible for the eye to discern whether all four feet ever collectively relinquished their contact with terra firma. Now, sharp-eared listeners might have believed differently, but they couldn't prove it! Today, we might laugh at the idea that mankind once remained ignorant of something that every horse-crazed little girl (and many little boys) understands intuitively: Horses can fly!

As I looked forward to the beautiful, soon-to-be-dedicated memorial statue of our personal champion, Barbaro, captured forever in the suspension phase of his ground-eating stride, I began to wonder when that myth that the galloping horse never left contact with earth - never flew - was finally debunked. So I looked it up. I found the most amazing thing! I know now what an incredibly significant subject the horse truly was, and that it was a horse who carried the young field of photography across the gap between stillness and motion! Entirely fitting.

From Life Magazine's "100 Photographs That Changed the World":

"Was there a moment midstride when horses had all hooves off the ground? Leland Stanford, the railroad baron and future university founder, bet there was-or at least that's the story. It was 1872 when Stanford hired noted landscape photographer Eadweard Muybridge to figure it out. It took years, but Muybridge delivered: He rigged a racetrack with a dozen strings that triggered 12 cameras. Muybridge not only proved Stanford right but also set off the revolution in motion photography that would become movies. Biographer Rebecca Solnit summed up his life: 'He is the man who split the second, as dramatic and far-reaching an action as the splitting of the atom.' "

If you would like to see the photo layout that accompanies the above caption, point your browser to:

http://www.digitaljournalist.org

Next, go to the "Previous Issues" tab. Click on 2003 and go to September. You will find a box on the right featuring Life Magazine's "100 Photographs that Changed the World". It's in there. Warning: Many of these images are not for the faint of heart; but every single one has the power to change hearts.

In celebration of the horse,

Deirdre in Central California

help get justice for Tessa (RIP)

http://forums.delphiforums.com/alexbrown/messages?msg=33280.1

Friend of an FOB with a horror story of a sweet molly mule abused by a supposedly reputable trainer - she had to be euthanized after laminitis set in resulting from the abuse.

Calls, letters and emails are needed to the Humane Society and the Sheriff's Office - this happened like 7 months ago and nothing is happening yet to the perpetrator(s) - contact details at the above thread.

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could you not just charming squeeze Sweet Pea!!!!

please help some of the rescues going on the db...they need us...

and...for all the Sweet Peas...let us get the Barbaro Bill..passed swiftly..

Hiya, FsOB! Alex, has there been any update about the status of Nicanor's healing today? I hope that Nicky is still eating well and not in much discomfort.

I hate to sound like the 'class monitor' once again, but if Wendy could perform the "spam-buster" activity on the posts date-stamped at 10:38 PM on 02/05 and 12:58 AM on 02/06, that would be awesome. Why anyone would think that any of the FsOB would be interested in that dreck is beyond me.

I hope that everyone is KY has had power restored as of today. Wishing everyone a safe & warm "CN" (comfortable night)! It is bitterly cold here on the banks of the Thames. Peace, RMH

#### To Barb, thanks for the photos of baby-licious Sweet Pea! What a gorgeous baby. I sure hope that Princess' surgery on her airway goes well. Please tell Fran that we said "hello".
To Angel Dee: Thank you for your rainbows!
To Lynne Brown: Any news from Sandra today? Is her computer still on the fritz? Thank you for sharing the story about heaven & hell. I love that one!
To Kathy B: Please let Jonna know that we miss her and hope that she & the GHs are staying safe & warm in NY.
To Lynda Pelliteri and Shirley in KY: Glad to see you both here today. Shirley, I'd been worried that you might still be without power. ####

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Hiya, FsOB! TGIF! It is so bitterly cold here this AM, I am dreading taking the trash outside for its collection. How disturbing to see that more State legislatures are introducing exploratory or enabling legislation for horse slaughter. We need this Federal legislation now more than ever.

My birthday card for Clever Allemont (and $10.00 contribution) will go out in today's mail to Old Friends in Georgetown, KY. Wishing everyone a safe & productive day.

Wendy, the trolls were back in force last night! Time for the Spam-buster! Peace, RMH