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I have done this, and admittedly spent far too much time exploring the cute and funky games they offer. You get to choose from a list of various charities to play for. The games are well-designed and intuitive; many of them are familiar and popular, such as solitaire and sudoku. You can create an account if you’d like to keep track of how much you have “donated,” but you don’t have to have an account to play. I created an account, and have not received spam from them as a result.
This site appears to be for real, and yes there ARE ads from site sponsors in the background of your game boards (Pepsi, Domino’s, Dial, Quaker etc.)– the ads are not terribly distracting.
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Beautiful stallions videos
Dream stallions on youTube, by Anchored4…
Friesians in the snow… by SkylineFarm.
Gypsy Vanner stallions, from VillaVanners.
Friesians at play, the Forest Boyz by lauraz7 (Such clowns! other Forest Boyz vids featured on this blog previously)
Friesians and Gypsys, by raythegoth.
Lipizzaners in the actual Spanish Riding School, Spanische Hofreitschule, Vienna… posted by bayareabert.
(Yes it’s commercially-produced, but back when I was there the Germans did NOT allow tourists to take pictures during a performance. Verboten! They came after you if they saw a camera!) (It impresses me that they even did this performance; no audience in the galleries, strictly done for the video. Those Germans are so UN-commercialized that we had trouble even FINDING the building back around 1985, which we circled around twice on foot. We had a map. No SIGNS! If in America, there would have been a billboard and flashing neon lights, a huge parking lot, etc! This arena and its stabling is on the palace grounds in downtown Vienna.)
Andalusian stallion,PRE Pura Rasa, Level III dressage , by andalusier0.
Here I must comment that this boy enjoys his work and is handled kindly. You can tell because he is relaxed and is NOT swishing his tail. So many of the dressage horses go through their paces OK, all the while wringing their poor tails like a helicopter. IMO, they have no other way open to them to express how they feel, which is decidedly UNcomfortable– because they are held in check and controlled so strongly. I would not call them “willing partners.” That’s just my opinion… I am convinced, and this video is evidence, that you can get high level performances from a horse WITHOUT distressing him. Better still are the riders who can do it bridleless and bareback!
Stallion escapes from BLM roundup
Escape of “Freedom”, a wild black stallion, from holding pen on January 2, 2010, after his herd had been driven by helicopter into Bureau of Land Management capture pens.
Documented by humane observers of the Cloud Foundation, active supporters of America’s wild mustang herds.
HORSE LOVERS UNITE and take action against these cruel and unreasonable policies of removing wild horses from their habitats in the west. These roundups are happening NOW, and the motives of the BLM are highly questionable.
Click here to email to President Obama, government and BLM officials, and your members of Congress, requesting a moratorium on yet another planned wild horse roundup.
01.19.10
550 more wild horses scheduled for roundup
Another BLM Wild Horse Roundup: Submit Comments Today!
Comments Must Be Received By Jan. 27
Just When We Thought It Couldn’t Get Worse – Government Claims More Than 670,000 Acres Can Only Support 100 to 200 Horses!
Removal of 550 horses in eastern Nevada set to begin next month
Dear IDA Members: [Bulletin from In Defense of Animals]
We told you this was going to be a long, hard fight – thank you for sticking with us to take action on each and every unacceptable assault by the Obama Administration on our wild horses. We are up against the deeply entrenched special interests who want wild horses removed from public lands so they can conduct business as usual. That means cheap usage of our public land for their private profits at the horses’ and taxpayers’ expense.
It’s time to get public comments in on another large removal of wild horses which is planned by the Department of Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM). This time the BLM intends to remove over 500 of the estimated 645 horses living in or near the “Eagle Herd Management Area” in eastern Nevada outside of Ely. While 500 individuals is fewer than the 2,500 horses currently being rounded up and removed from the Calico Complex in northwest Nevada (click here for Calico update), the Eagle roundup is even more ludicrous because it is 125,000 acres larger than Calico, but the government will only allow 100 horses to remain! In Calico, by contrast, 500-900 horses will be left behind in the approximately 500,000-acre public land complex.
The proposed Eagle HMA plan puts these wild horses at great risk because the BLM is reducing the number of horses to dangerously low numbers, which could threaten the viability of the herd. Many horse advocates believe this is the BLM’s method of systematically dwindling horse population numbers down to untenable levels in order to ultimately eradicate these American living legends from public lands.
The Obama Administration is continuing the Bush Administration policy of targeting wild horses in order to serve special cattle and other industry interests. Under President Obama’s oversight, the BLM is actually accelerating the pace of wild horse removals, with 12,000 horses targeted for capture from our public lands in Fiscal Year 2010 alone. The majority of these horses will be sent to government holding facilities, where they will join the 35,000 wild horses already stockpiled at taxpayer expense.
For more information on the government’s plans, the BLM Preliminary Environmental Assessment for this roundup is available here.
Please fill out the form (at this link), and send it with one click to all the relevant decision-makers. Take the time today to submit your comments and protest against another massive Obama Administration wild horse roundup. And after you fill out the form, please use the “tell-a-friend” link you will be automatically directed to, to ask your friends and family to submit comments as well. We need to let the government know that Americans oppose these unnecessary and cruel roundups.
01.17.10
Haflinger gelding for sale, well broke
BROKE 6 year old Haflinger Gelding, registered with the American Haflinger Registry. At 14 - 14.1 hands, Pea-Eye moves like a horse. Extremely smooth at the walk, trot or canter. He is versatile and well-rounded, having participated in Open Ranch Versatility shows, Cowboy Races (Champion in the green and open divisions), English and Western Pleasure.
He excels in trail work, both in and out of the ring and is comfortable dragging a log, a tarp or roping and holding a cow. Hobbles, ground ties and ponies. Has participated in clinics with Ray Hunt, Tom Curtin, Buck Brannaman and Bryan Neubert. He is happiest when he has a job to do. Has been trailered to Virginia to participate in a Spring round-up and branding.
Pea-Eye is extremely bright, curious and well-mannered and would be an excellent fit for an advanced beginner to intermediate youth or adult. Good for farrier and vet, trailers well. Has also been ground-driven and is ready to learn how to drive. Can be seen at Gelinas Farm, Pembroke, NH.
Selling to buy a young prospect.
Asking $6500.00
Horse hair addictive to women
In a press release today, the National Institute of Health has announced the discovery of a potentially dangerous substance in the hair of horses. This substance, called “amobacter equuii” has been linked with the following symptoms in females:
* Reluctance to cook, clean or do housework.
* Reluctance to wear make-up, good clothes or heels.
* Reluctance to spend money on home or car repairs until after “baby” has new shoes, pad, blanket, tack, grain, hay & supplements.
“Amobacter equuii” usually results in long hours away from home and exhaustion which may lead to a loss of physical contact with other humans (especially husbands).
“Amobacter equuii” is thought to be addictive, driving the need for additional sources - this may lead to a “herd mentality” or like the potato chip commercial, “you can’t have just one”. (Especially potent if infected from miniature equines.)
Beware! If you come in contact with a female human infected by this substance, be prepared to talk about horses for hours. Surgeon General’s Warning: Horses are expensive, addictive, and may impair the ability to use common sense.
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This listserv is brought to you by EFMHA, the Equine Facilitated Mental Health Association, a section of NARHA. For more information see: www.narha.org .
01.10.10
Dusty the Morab finds a new home!
WOWOWOWOWOW!!! I am so relieved and happy to learn… Dusty, 4 year old Morgan-Arabian cross, has already been moved to his new home, taken in by a reader on this blog who inquired to me about him!! And a friend of mine from the GSCA carriage driving club trailered him.
Joyce, Dusty’s new owner, plans to train him and use him for trail riding. Joyce had been ready to retire her older trail horse. This saves Dusty from a possible fate which is probably being suffered by a lot of horses these days, because his former owner was afraid she would have to put him down from lack of funds to support him.
From just posting his story 4 days ago, I feel pretty good about these results!!! 
