HORSE LICENSING BILL SCRAPPED AFTER PROTEST
Posted on January 30th, 2009 by Bob Gould
New York State Agriculture Commissioner Patrick Hooker released a statement on Jan. 22 alerting New York horse owners to the ongoing investigation into contagious equine metritis (CEM), a contagious venereal disease. “The New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets and USDA veterinarians have quarantined the nine exposed mares in New York State and have [...]
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — PHOENIX, AZ, January 20, 2009 — PetSmart is voluntarily recalling seven of its Grreat Choice® Dog Biscuit products that contain peanut paste made by Peanut Corporation of America (PCA). PCA is the focus of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration investigation into [...]
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Most horse owners do not own horses as a business, or with expectations of generating household income from them. Rather, owners are more intent on maximizing the amount of pleasure or involvement per dollar spent. Saving money when it comes to horse ownership is always important, but even more so when the economy is down [...]
AQHA World Show special featured January 30.
The American Quarter Horse Journal, January 26, 2009 – American Quarter Horse fans have another opportunity to watch the action from the 2008 American Quarter Horse Association World Championship Show as the “AQHA America’s Horse Championships” presented by Bank of America is featured on the Universal Sports Network. The [...]
America’s Horse, January 22, 2009 – The American Quarter Horse Association will host a forum on equine cloning at the 2009 AQHA Annual Convention, March 5-9 at the Grand Hyatt in San Antonio.
Within the past couple of years, commercial cloning of a number of horses, including American Quarter Horses, has been well publicized. However, under [...]
By PAUL POST, The Saratogian
SARATOGA SPRINGS — Equine dentists are hailing a court ruling they hope will allow them to keep working permanently without further legal threats from the state.
The Appellate Division of State Supreme Court has rejected a state Racing and Wagering Board’s appeal that sought to keep lay horse dentists from [...]
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This first-ever festival will show all sides of the American Quarter Horse and AQHA.
America’s Horse, January 19, 2009 – Gather your friends and load up your horses for the first-ever QuarterFest: A Celebration of the American Quarter Horse. This one-of-a-kind event, May 1-3 in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, will be a chance to cure your cabin fever [...]
Human encroachment into uninhabited parts of Southeast Asia exposed people to unusual animals and previously unknown pathogens, and global travel carried a tropical zoonotic disease to Toronto in 2003, Dr. Barrett Slenning told a gathering of public health professionals.
That transmission chain for severe acute respiratory syndrome would have been nearly impossible only a few decades [...]
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Pharmaceutical trade group members hope veterinarians will learn more about generic drug safety and drug industry issues through a Web site launched in November.
Stephanie Batliner, chair of the Generic Animal Drug Alliance, said the Web site will address issues related to generic drugs for large and small animals, pharmaceutical compounding, and organizational positions on legislation [...]
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