All creatures great and small

Weatherford Democrat - Weatherford,TX,USAThere is also a miniature horse named Shortcakes, a donkey named Rabbit and a fish named Blue. Her favorite of all the creatures great and small is Cotton. ...

Boy who donated Horse for Charity Auction will keep his Pet after all

DigitalJournal.com - CanadaAndrew Jentlie, 10, donates his miniature horse of 4 years to charity to aid Juvenile Diabetes cure and the buyers pay $6000 and return the horse back to ...

Passion for horses keeps 10-year-old Jake Cruzan busy

Cortez Journal - Cortez,CO,USAHe even gets right back on when bucked off. In fact, when he was recently bucked off of his miniature horse, Pepper, it was easy to get back on. Why?

Chandler boy parts with pal to help fight diabetes

AZ Central.com - AZ,USAThrough it all, Andrew at least had Zig-Zag, a miniature horse that had been his pet for four years. Now, after a few months of adjusting to a life with the ...

Tiny horses enjoy immense popularity

Fort Worth Star Telegram - Fort Worth,TX,USADanielle Hill works with a miniature horse that's 27 inches tall. Texas is said to have far more of the horses than any other state. ...

Equine operator

Saanich News - Saanich,British Columbia,Canada... sign charts and accept a sandwich offered by his receptionist, he stopped to look at a recovering equine patient, a miniature horse named Belle, ...

SERVICE TO YOUTH AWARD

Harnesslink - New ZealandWolf is also very active with the Pompano Park Miniature Horse Program. The program is conducted at the racetrack and educates young people through visits ...

No Charges in Miniature Horse Shooting Case

TheHorse.com - Lexington,KY,USAA College Station, Texas, police officer who shot and killed his neighbor's Miniature Horse will not be charged, the Bryan-College Station Eagle reported. ...

Felix and Fido may be tenants protected by the federal government

Anchorage Daily News (subscription) - Anchorage,AK,USABut a recent court ruling found that demanding to take a miniature horse into a store was going too far. Courts may yet narrow what makes sense case by case ...

Miniature horses an avocation for Blackfoot sisters

Capital Press (subscription) - Salem,OR,USABURLEY, Idaho - A grade school teacher who runs a miniature horse ranch plans to horse around full time next year following her retirement. ...

Helping hooves: Horse brings joy to nursing home residents

Baxter Bulletin - Baxter,AR,USAThe idea for miniature horse therapy came about when White River Healthcare's Julie Lawton, who plans activities for the 91-bed facility, asked Little Bit's ...

Tyler Rotary Club Donates Trailer To Therapet

KLTV - Tyler,TX,USA"We were thrilled when we got the call that the rotary club was going to sponsor our miniature horse trailer," said Shari Curran, Executive Director, ...

Little horses make big impact

Newszap Maryland - MD,USAAt the Beckwith Apple Festival, he purchased his wife a miniature horse and immediately began researching how to care for it. ...

Miniature circus comes to town

Grand Haven Tribune - Grand Haven,MI,USAIt took her father about four hours to carve a single miniature horse, she said. Mackay used white pine for the animals, poplar (because of its finer grain) ...

Dogs suspected of mauling miniature horses in Allegan County

WWMT - Kalamazoo,MI,USAThe three dogs believed to be behind the miniature horse maulings were pickeed up several days after the incident. They are being kept in quarantine at the ...

County fair rules hard on youths

Sarasota Herald-Tribune - Sarasota,FL,USA... the children have to pay entrance fees this year -- $10 for steer, swine, beef breeding, dairy, goat and llama; $5 to enter a dog or miniature horse; ...

Tykes easily clear hurdle of sharing

Denver Post - Denver,CO,USAFaith Capra, 4, of Colorado Springs gets a chance to hug a Canon City miniature stallion named Firecracker on Monday at the Miniature Horse Demonstration at ...

LOCAL CHARLESTON HERO GOES PUBLIC WITH ELEPHANT BEATINGS SHE ...

PETA (press release) - Norfolk,VA,USA... one in which a trainer whipped a camel during rehearsals and another in which a trainer forcefully punched a miniature horse in the face—were ignored. ...

Supporters of Oakland's City Stables still hopeful

Mercury-Register - Oroville,CA,USAThe event drew about 100 parents and a flock of kids, enticed by the opportunity to pet, feed and oogle Figaro, a genial, miniature horse, about three feet ...

Her big passions are, well, tiny

Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USAAfter owning quarter horses, Arabians and Thoroughbreds, Russo bought her first miniature horse in 1993 to keep an ancient pony company. ...

Horses, Children and Miracles at Heads Up

Signal - Santa Clarita,CA,USAHer duties include caring for Star, a miniature horse. Rachael Zlotnik began volunteering at Heads Up while a student at College of the Canyons. ...

Organization keeps hope alive for City Stables reopening

Mercury-Register - Oroville,CA,USAIsaac Carlos, 4, brushes a miniature horse during a fundraising event at Zion Luthern Church to help reopen Oakland City Stables on Saturday January 6, ...

Polishing the spurs for the city

Denver Post - Denver,CO,USASimultaneously, they added more ticketed events - things like miniature horse demonstrations, dog stunt shows and something called "Dancing Horses," in ...

They might look like ponies…

Cabinet.com - Milford,NH,USAAccording to theminiaturehorse.com, the American miniature horse breed came from many sources, including English and Dutch mine horses that were brought to ...

Local Girl And Her Horse Are National Champs

WLUC-TV - Negaunee,MI,USAA seven-year-old Michigamme girl and her miniature horse, Buddy took home eight awards this year at the American Miniature Horse Registry National Competition ...

Criminal aspect possible in Uxbridge pit bull case

Milford Daily News - Milford,MA,USA... The scare began Dec. 20, when a Pond Street homeowner woke to find her family's miniature horse torn to death in their side yard. ...