by Guest Blogger Emily Davenport Executive Director, Founder Rocky Mountain Wildlife Alliance   We’ve heard this story before… “A raccoon was trapped and relocated, now I have a bunch of squirrels trying to get into the attic.” Or “A skunk was relocated, and now there are rats in the crawlspace.” Wildlife has its checks and…

By Guest Blogger, Cheryl Webb, Founder & Owner Springfield, Colorado   The Rescue Blue Rose Ranch, Inc. rescues, rehabilitates, and trains horses for adoption.  My husband John and I founded Blue Rose Ranch in 2006 because of our concern regarding the growing problem of unwanted horses and the typically inhumane treatment of horses caught in…

By Roland Halpern Executive Director, Colorado Voters for Animals In 2007, with the passage of the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act, the three horse slaughterhouses operating in the United States were shuttered. The act stripped federal funding for horse meat inspectors, meaning horse meat could not be sold as food for human consumption. This didn’t…

By Amy Hefestay   The 2021 wild horse helicopter roundup in the Sand Wash Basin Herd Management Area (HMA) in northwest Colorado took place in the first week of September, 2021. The Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) own documentation states that, “Helicopters should travel at a speed that matches the slowest horse, to avoid separating…

By Guest Blogger Will Falk, Writer, Lawyer, and Environmental Activist Edited by Sunny Weber, Author, Behaviorist, Humane Educator   Heartbreak in the Wild The first time I saw a coyote with mange my heart broke. Most of her fur was gone. Her skin, covered with scabs and lesions, had a sickly pink pallor. Her tail…

By Jack Murphy, CEO of Urban Wildlife Rescue Spring is almost here and that means one thing–babies. Although mice, rats, rabbits and pigeons have young year around, most animals give birth in the spring. The majority of wild animals give birth to and raise their young outside, but squirrels and raccoons sometimes choose human habitats to…