The horse soring regulation currently held up by the Trump administration would essentially ban the cruel practice Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013, ...

Soring—which involves intentionally inflicting pain on a horse’s hooves and front limbs to produce an exaggerated high-stepping gait known as the Big Lick—remains a persistent and rampant practice in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The U.S Department of Agriculture (USDA) has updated a federal law that bans horse soring-the practice of intentionally hurting a ...

USDA's efforts to tighten enforcement of the Horse Protection Act began a new chapter this week with the withdrawal of a previous rulemaking, an action it says was supported by comments on a proposed ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced the final version of a rule Friday that will help protect horses from the practice of soring. Soring is the intentional infliction of pain on horses' feet ...

The Tennessee Department of Agriculture is considering giving a grant to the Tennessee Walking Horse Breeders and Exhibitors Association for a study in what walking horse industry activists contend ...

The moment Tawnee Preisner saw the scarred and wounded Tennessee walking horse at a Cookeville auction, she knew she had to act. If she didn't, the stallion could end up going to slaughter. Preisner, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aug. 27—It's walking horse time in Tennessee. Better put, it's save the horses time in Tennessee. Those words, a take-off on the ...