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Animal welfare organizations are concerned with the health, safety and psychological wellness of individual animals. These organizations include animal rescue groups and wildlife rehabilitation centers, which care for animals in distress and sanctuaries, where animals are brought to live and be protected for the rest of their lives.
Horse rescued by a protection group while he was starving. Horse welfare or equine welfare helps describe the acceptable conditions of life and use for domesticated horses, in contrast to suffering produced by voluntary or involuntary actions of others, whether through physical abuse, mutilation, neglect, transport, vivisection or other forms of ill treatment.
International League for the Protection of Horses was founded in 1927 as a campaigning organisation to prevent the export of live British horses for slaughter. The charity's founder, Ada Cole, was spurred into action after witnessing a procession of British work horses being unloaded and whipped for four miles to slaughter in Belgium. [2] [3] [4]
The self-proclaimed "horse person" shared that he loves horses because they "really transcend all social groups and barricades." "So, no matter if you're White, Black, straight, gay, rich, poor ...
Redwings is now the largest horse charity in the UK. [3] Redwings provides a safe home for rescued horses, ponies, donkeys and mules who have been neglected and ill-treated, such as those rescued from Spindles Farm in 2008, the largest case of equine animal cruelty ever seen in the UK at the time.
While the horse evolved in North America, it became extinct between 8,000 and 10,000 years ago. [3] There are multiple theories for this extinction, ranging from climate change to the arrival of humans. [4] [5] [6] Horses returned to the Americas beginning with Christopher Columbus in 1493. They also arrived on the mainland with Cortés in 1519.
Grillo founded Horse Rescue of America in 1988. [3] [5] In 2008, Grillo created "Animals on the Edge," a global project that allows animals from other nations to benefit from Grillo's initiatives. Grillo co-conceived with wildlife photographer and author Chris Weston a book by the same name.
Dumb Friends League (DFL) is an animal shelter based in Denver, Colorado. Established in 1910, DFL is the largest independent, nonprofit community-based animal shelter / humane society in the Rocky Mountain region .