Rescue & Welfare

Your horse has vanished and someone else is responsible. But if the police deem the case a civil matter, recovering your horse will be much more difficult, if not impossible. Don’t let this happen to you.

Are you thinking about adopting a wild horse? Here, we tell you how to determine whether a wild horse is right for you, then give you expert adoption guidelines.

Ready to adopt an unwanted horse for your next trail mount? Use these six steps to give a formerly abused or neglected horse a loving forever home.

When you see a horse suffering in a bad living situation, of course you want to help. But it’s important that you know what to do to stay within the law.

Learn the right way to adopt a rescue horse with these 10 tips. Plus: Learn about the A Home for Every Horse program.

An equine rescue experts offer insights to help you determine if a particular rescue group is legitimate effort to help horses or a shady scam.

Organizations that help horses in need are more important now than ever, but many misconceptions about them remain. Here?s how to sort the fact from fiction.

Eastern Kentucky University?s Technical Large Animal Emergency Rescue Training course (TLAER), sponsored by USRider, is an exceptional opportunity. At Eastern Kentucky University's Technical Large Animal Rescue Training, sponsored in part by USRider, students learned the safe way to save horses and livestock in dangerous situations.

Do you have extra barn supplies tack and other horse necessities? If you find yourself with an excess of blankets bridles dewormers and halters donate them to your local horse rescue. Like many shelters most horse rescues are non-profit and rely on volunt

The four-day Technical Large Animal Rescue Training course (TLAR) aims to teach emergency responders the most efficient techniques to save oversized animals in catastrophic situations. Sponsored largely by USRider, the course is conducted at Eastern Kentucky University.

Take these steps now and as needed to reduce the risk of having your horse stolen.

In part two of our special report, we explore the options available--currently and potentially--to deal with unwanted horses.

Read more about the abandoned and unwanted horses issue with these links.

Horse slaughter becomes a hot issue after California's Proposition 6 banned the transport of horses for slaughter in the state.