RSPCA
News on the workings of The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, from rescuing horses who have become welfare cases to their involvement with hunting.
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Mother and daughter who ‘loved horses’ allowed group to suffer ‘prolonged neglect’
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Mule put down and donkeys rescued after mother and son ignored welfare advice
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Treatment in prison will be better than the care you gave animals, jailed pensioner told in horror farm sentencing
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Horses dug out of stables by rescuers in horrific welfare case
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Rescue pony found malnourished in 2019 is crowned supreme at Equifest at her first show
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Stallion found stuck over gate after pursuit of mares goes wrong
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‘The Great Outpaws’: appeal to find stables and farm homes for outdoor cats
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Sarcoid prosecution shows need for vet attention rather than using home remedies
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Owner who used home remedy on horse’s sarcoids found guilty of welfare offence
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Tales from Windsor: formerly ‘feral’ traditional pony found ‘wandering the land’ is a Windsor winner
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‘Landmark day’ for animal welfare as new legislation comes into force
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Ban for owner of ‘grossly obese’ horse found more than 100kg overweight
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Mare with broken leg among 90 ponies neglected by man banned from keeping equines
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Collapsed colt left with decaying wounds put down to end suffering *Warning: upsetting image*
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Competition rider who ‘chose to allow’ livery horses to suffer may still keep equines despite colt’s death
“It torments me wondering if he stood there starving and neglected and wondered why I didn’t come for him”
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Couple filmed pinning down foal and beating him with pipe as they tried to ‘train’ him
The foal was 11 months old at the time of the incident
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Suspended sentence for man who used vehicle to chase badly injured horse *Warning: graphic content*
Stephen Lees, 61, of St Asaph, was given an 18-week suspended prison sentence and banned from keeping horses for 18 months after a mare was found with halter injuries so severe that bone was exposed
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Tom Price jailed after 240 horses removed from ‘appalling’ conditions
“Two of the sites were strewn with hazards such as sharp metal and barbed wire, and at one site the horses were kept in overcrowded, filthy conditions with nowhere for them to lie down”
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‘Cancel out cruelty once and for all’: tougher sentences for animal abusers made law four years on
“This reform is long overdue – for many years, the most violent and horrific abuse and cruelty received a maximum penalty of just a few months”