Let's #BanTheBigLick

03/24/2024

Update March 21, 2024: The Prevent All Soring Tactics (PAST) Act has just been reintroduced in the U.S. Senate as S. 4004 by Sens. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, and Mark Warner, D-Va., with 48 other original cosponsors—that’s half the Senate! The parallel House bill, H.R. 3090, now has 241 co-sponsors, more than a majority in that chamber. It’s high time to enact the PAST Act and end the indefensible cruelty to horses known as “soring.”

In 1970, the U.S. Congress passed the Horse Protection Act to end the cruel practice of horse soring, which is the use of caustic chemicals, chains, weighted shoes, hard objects, cutting and other painful techniques to force horses to perform the artificial, high-stepping gait known as the "Big Lick...

03/02/2024

Congratulations go to Carl Bledsoe of JUST GAIT for receiving the Humane Horseman of the Year award from the Humane Society of the United States of America. Carl and his wife Tammy have been long time supporters of the sound Tennessee Walking Horse. The award was presented to Carl on the first day of the Horse World Expo. 🏆
https://www.facebook.com/CarlBledsoeHorsemanship/posts/pfbid02ECYrWGLDfb8UBoXw2k2Lt26yt6Ce4wAeR4mRdhtsMjGR6NtkwW9jAFf1Gw4ohxYrl

07/28/2023

In today’s wildly divided political environment, we have before us a rare opportunity to come together and take action on something most of us, I think, can agree on — that would be protecting horses...

06/09/2023

https://www.humanesociety.org/news/federal-court-filing-biden-administrations-department-agriculture-refuses-take-action-protect?&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social-media&utm_campaign=addtoany&fbclid=IwAR3m68XiTE6Jgq2tKV9yO1eTAkH3sWdbykJ7-dKk73UQnsQr4ibD89ysVAo

11/15/2022

Late this evening, the House of Representatives cleared up some old business and brought HR 5441 The PAST Act to a vote. It passed with 304 yeas and 111 nays. This is half the battle though, as it has to be voted through the Senate before it can go to the President's desk to become law.

VOTE QUESTION: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended, DESCRIPTION: PAST Act, VOTE TYPE: 2/3 Yea-And-Nay, STATUS: Passed

08/01/2022

"Last Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that the United States Department of Agriculture had unlawfully withdrawn a 2017 rule designed to fix the agency’s weak regulations that have allowed horse soring to persist within the Tennessee walking horse industry." https://blog.humanesociety.org/2022/07/court-victory-usda-rule-horses-need-protection-cruel-soring.html?fbclid=IwAR0OfvpKbzKp-PydwjqqvUqpodro37lRftdrp6lmxs8qbudJDf-JsxYjqek

Some really good news from a federal courtroom on a fight we’ve long been waging for horses: Last Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that the United States

07/31/2022

https://secured.humanesociety.org/page/83735/action/1

Horses need your voice. Please urge your legislators to pass the PAST Act to end cruel horse soring.

07/31/2022

Go almost anywhere these days where conversations can be overheard and it is almost bankable that the subject of Yellowstone, Paramount Network’s western drama series shot on location in Montana, will

02/04/2022

By Dr Mark Kennedy.... Horses are hurting in the meaningless name of triumphs and trophies

"All of these practices involve nothing less than the absolutely overt, intentional infliction of intense pain on sentient animals for personal gain - the winning of competitions and the money and status this brings."

03/17/2021

When the previous administration took office, it suspended many actions that were incomplete. The USDA failed to finalize the Rule to Stop Soring before 2016 ended, causing it to be suspended with everything else. Right now, there are people in DC working to finalize the Rule to Stop Soring. The work had all been done, it had huge bipartisan support and support from the public, and Congress is now asking Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack to publish the Rule. Contact your US Senators & Reps.

WASHINGTON – Representatives Steve Cohen (TN-09), Jan Schakowsky (IL-09), Vern Buchanan (FL-16) and Brian Fitzpatrick (PA-01) today led a letter with more than 100 Members of Congress asking Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to publish a rule to prevent the intentional harming of horses known as ....

03/02/2021

URGENT ACTION REQUEST PLEASE! Please sign the petition to ask the USDA to adopt the regulation that abolishes the chains, stacks and industry self inspections! We need everyone to speak up before the deadline of March 12.
https://app.muster.com/take-action/gAi71shRlp/?fbclid=IwAR0fpE-20PcblRM6pN01IoC8b7kpUcHO4Z7hQFiYoX3rMfjPjCvlwGPfxME

As Congress reviews options to reintroduce the “PAST Act,” the new Administration has an opportunity to do its part by issuing the HPA rule that will crack down on the practice of soring a horse’s limbs.  By clicking on the following link, you can send a copy of the sign-on letter and pet...